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What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

Started by FunkMonk, November 08, 2016, 11:02:57 PM

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Barrister

#1755
December 05, 2016, 10:43:34 AM
Yes, my understanding is that President Trump could in fact levy a tariff on Chinese goods without congressional approval.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

derspiess

#1756
December 05, 2016, 10:47:15 AM
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

The Minsky Moment

#1758
December 05, 2016, 11:38:18 AM
Quote from: DGuller on December 05, 2016, 09:06:44 AM
The one genuinely good thing about Trump in foreign policy is that he is credibly irrational.  That actually confers some negotiating advantages over adversaries.

Yes that's what the theory says, but in order to exploit that you need to have some kind strategy to take advantage.  You have to have the appearance of irrationality but sufficient actual rationality to make it work without doing something to hurt yourself.  Tricky to pull off.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Razgovory

#1759
December 05, 2016, 11:42:35 AM
Nixon pulled it off in '73.  Trumps no Nixon.  Nixon was a lot more honest.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

OttoVonBismarck

#1760
December 05, 2016, 11:45:14 AM
Nixon was a pretty smart/informed guy. I randomly saw on YouTube the other day an interview with Nixon near the end of his life, 1993, he was visiting Moscow and Katie Couric did a video interview of him and quizzed him on a range of issues affecting Russia and domestic policy issues in the United States. Even at 80 Nixon was more informed and able to speak intelligently about in depth, current policy events than Trump has ever been.

The Minsky Moment

#1761
December 05, 2016, 11:48:42 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on December 05, 2016, 11:38:18 AM
Tricky to pull off.

No one reads closely anymore.  ;)
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

CountDeMoney

#1762
December 05, 2016, 12:02:47 PM
Quote from: OttoVonBismarck on December 05, 2016, 11:45:14 AM
Nixon was a pretty smart/informed guy. I randomly saw on YouTube the other day an interview with Nixon near the end of his life, 1993, he was visiting Moscow and Katie Couric did a video interview of him and quizzed him on a range of issues affecting Russia and domestic policy issues in the United States. Even at 80 Nixon was more informed and able to speak intelligently about in depth, current policy events than Trump has ever been.

Ya think?  The man was pumping out books on foreign policy until he died.

derspiess

#1763
December 05, 2016, 12:06:47 PM
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Syt

#1765
December 05, 2016, 12:13:55 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

#1766
December 05, 2016, 12:17:30 PM
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

mongers

#1767
December 05, 2016, 12:52:37 PM
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Maladict

#1768
December 05, 2016, 12:58:38 PM
Carson for  housing  :lol:

CountDeMoney

#1769
December 05, 2016, 01:02:45 PM
Quote from: Maladict on December 05, 2016, 12:58:38 PM
Carson for  housing  :lol:

Put the black guy in subsidized housing.  Makes complete sense.
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