[GilGil]

This is an excellent article. Bob Woodward is great writer. Very surprising this made it in the Washington Post. It's a long read.

[boycott]

I tend to agree with Trump.

I work with many companies in manufacturing. The future isn’t looking so good.

A few more years of doing what we’ve been doing and we’ll be in real trouble.

$21 trillion in debt will be difficult to recover from too. Obama has spent $11 trillion and we have nothing to show for it. He didn’t spend it on the military. He didn’t spend it on infrastructure. He didn’t spend it on working people. Where did it go?

Yes, I agree with Mr. Trump. We’re heading for a massive recession if we stay the course.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”...but intends to eliminate the national debt in 8 years”

Just another way of telling his supporters that he thinks that they are stupid.

He does it all the time,

[Captain7seas]

I will vote for him but hate to break the news that it's impossible to pay off your debt when all the money is borrowed into existence. Hope the “Creature from Jekylll Island” will be on his reading list.

[Crucial]

Electing Hillary and especially Bernie will prolong the recession and perhaps turn it into a depression. FDR prolonged Depression 1 by implementing Keynesian economics.

[Steelfish]

This is the kind of Trumpoonery-Buffonery that explains why Clinton and Bernie are both trashing Trump in hypothetical head to head match ups. God save our nation if Trump becomes the nominee. Clinton will win in a landslide!

[Secret Agent Man]

I do not get how 21 trillion in debt, with an upcoming serious recession, is going to be eliminated.

Fedgov defaulting is not an option.

[greatvikingone]

“a distinctly gloomy view of the economy that counters mainstream economic forecasts”

Who is mainstream? I’m just a nobody and I’ve been reading there are desperately bad economic times ahead...

[zeestephen]

Slightly off topic...

Co-author of this article, Robert Costa, used to be the chief political correspondent at National Review.

Today, Costa is helping Bob Woodward write editorials at the Washington Post!

Perhaps this will help people understand why the Republican Party is collapsing?

[WKUHilltopper]

First step...get rid of the Federal Reserve. Probably 90% of the debt they’ve incurred is not even ours. It’s been a thieves paradise for 103 years.

[bert]

——he felt the pull.——

Or in other language..... he felt the call

Donald Trump is called to the Presidency

[Original Lurker]

I’ve heard for decades presidential economic policies have an approximate seven year lag-time before taking affect on the national economy.

If true, we may be in for some really deep excrement.

[T. P. Pole]

You are all missing it here. The easiest way to eliminate the debt is with massive inflation. We all have been waiting for it, and wondering why it isn’t here yet.

[StAnDeliver]

If debentured interest comes unwound as an investment, forget it, it’s all over.

[StAnDeliver]

"Donald Trump said in an interview that economic conditions are so perilous that the country is headed for a “very massive recession” and that “it’s a terrible time right now” to invest in the stock market, embracing a distinctly gloomy view of the economy that counters mainstream economic forecasts."

Talk about truth to power. MSM and MSWS (MainStream Media and MainStream WallStreet) - both gone total demonrat.