Trump: The First Year

I would consider that incontrovertible too. O was handed a big shit sandwich there, and I don’t much care to slice and dice on policy either and start a skid-bitching slip and slide of what did what for what.

Look at the indexes. They started here(______ ) when he took office, and finished there(------) when he left.

(tongue in cheek) I’m not surprised by that response at all. :yum:

But there’s that word again. Do companies plan for all possible contingencies or not?

When it behooves a point they do. When it doesn’t, the don’t.

Which is it?

Just read through this, interested to hear thoughts about the de-regulation of banking and Wall Street.

Edit: Here is the executive summary https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiL_NH39LjUAhWD0YMKHZZVBNEQFgg-MAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinancialservices.house.gov%2Fuploadedfiles%2Ffinancial_choice_act-_executive_summary.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG8R2WknbZ4YQsuFmmeVrOdtzE1XQ

Hard for me to get too excited one way or the other. When the next financial crash comes I think we have already set the precedent. Big institutions will be bailed out. CEO’s who fail will be given massive golden parachutes. No one will go to jail. Blame will be placed depending on which team you root for.

We will talk again about making big changes, most likely they won’t happen.

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SECTION TWO: End “Too Big to Fail” and Bank Bailouts.
 Retroactively repeal the authority of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) to
designate firms as systematically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
 Repeal Title II of Dodd-Frank and replace it with a new chapter of the Bankruptcy code
designed to accommodate the failure of a large, complex financial institution.
 Repeal Title VIII of the Dodd-Frank Act, which gives the FSOC authority to designate
certain payments and clearing organizations as systemically important “financial market
utilities” (FMUs) with access to the Federal Reserve discount window, and retroactively
repeal all previous FMU designations.
 Restrict the Fed’s discount window lending to Bagehot’s dictum.
 Prohibit use of the Exchange Stabilization Fund to bailout financial firms or creditors.
 Repeal Dodd-Frank’s so-called “Hotel California” provision.

I dunno…that’s pretty straight forward in it’s wording, and as a disclaimer I have no idea about any of it, was curious about folks who were more into that side of things and what you all have to say about it, it seems risky looking at it historically.

Edit: Italicized to indicate text from the Executive Summary

Yea those people are crazy… Hey what color is your make America great again hat red or camo?

Not to mention that while tax breaks are always welcome what they really need is a break on payroll tax components. Other tax break tend to be hoarded in order to cover expected shortfalls…or the inevitable flip flop from administration to administration. It is completely rational, but doesn’t help the economy. It’s expensive to hire people.

And of course, market concentrations are wonky as well.

EDIT: spelling

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What only one like?

Oh right only zeb and I figured this one out from the get go.

Guess what will come of the special counsels look into obstruction?

I can tell you ahead of time if you’d like

To be fair you fell for the “I’m gonna build a wall” line. Equally guillible :stuck_out_tongue:

It’ll start to be built if he has any interest in being reelected

Keep telling yourself that. This will somehow be the 1 walked back promise that people care about lol

Of course the main slogan from his campaign was build a wall.

People who follow politics passively only remember the catchy stuff

Why are we even talking about the wall promise? He’s got 3.5 years to get that going.

Let’s keep talking about the idiots who thought Russia hacked the election

I suppose it depends on what is meant by the word plan.

Actually the main campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again”

Because you still haven’t been able to wrap your head around most people’s REAL issue with the Russia/Election shit.

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What they chanted was build a wall at his rallies it matters.

You can keep posting But it’s been revealed That you mustve been a complete idiot to buy into this nonsense about Russia one bit

You still have no idea why most people are worried, but feel free to think you’re right.

Must be that incompatible culture

I don’t think I am right I know I am.

After months of bullshit articles the truth is revealed.

All you idiots have is spin

No, you didn’t. You have someone you like politically and never once viewed it objectively to evaluate whether Trump did something or not.

And the investigation isn’t done. Non-hacks usually understand you gather all the facts and then conclude. You and Zeb do the opposite - you conclude first, based on political preference, independent of facts.

Trump may be personally exonerated from any direct connection to Russia to influence an election - and it looks more and more likely that is the case, as throughout this whole saga the one thing we learned is Trump is too dumb to run such a sophisticated nefarious geopolitical game. But if he is truly innocent, he comes out of this looking bad nonetheless.