[expat_panama]

Editing this article was difficult becasue there was sooo much good stuff there; pleeeeze check out the article's opening line on the link. Related thread: Donald Trump praised Nancy Pelosi as 'the best'

[2ndDivisionVet]

Attacking him like this only makes him stronger and more popular. Only one person can defeat Don Trump .... and that’s Don Trump.

[Catsrus]

While I can’t stand Nancy Pelosi - she was a better Speaker of the House than Boehner. She was tough as nails, while he is a wussie, except when it comes to conservatives, then he gets tough. She had gonads, even though I despised her.

[cripplecreek]

I’m just not seeing any reason I should trust him. That would require an actual discussion about his distant and recent past but all I get is screeching.

It just causes me to trust him less.

[DB]

I had to keep checking the year... It is deja vu all over again...

[expat_panama]

Beautiful new week here investors!   Futures are flat and the only reports are Empire Manufacturing, NAHB Housing Market Index, and Long-Term TIC Flows. 

OK, this thread's article is pure politics and that supposed to be a no no for serious investors.  Well, one thing is that major changes in policy direction really do matter (imho) and therefore a bit of checking wind direction can't hurt.  The other thing is we already got some good 'econ issues' threads going on here:

• Japan economy shrinks in second-quarter in setback for 'Abenomics'
• Doomsday clock for global market crash strikes one minute to midnight as central banks lose control
• If The Fed Is Always Wrong How Can Its Policies Ever Be Right?
• American Malls In Meltdown - The Economic Recovery Is Complete & Utter Fraud

All these neat things happening & I'll try and keep up but first I have to go out fix a backed up septic tank...

[Sooth2222]

"And yet, if we’re losing and can’t beat anybody, as he claims, then why is the rest of the world so confident about the U.S. and eager to come here and do business? Don’t take it from me: just read the AT Kearney survey of global business executives, which says—for the third year in a row—that the United States has the world’s best macroeconomic outlook— better than anywhere else, including China and Mexico, two countries he claims are eating our lunch."

Who is AT Kearney? I have an MBA and subscribe to the Wall Street Journal and I never even heard of AT Kearney before this morning.

The US business environment was becoming less favorable even before Obama, to claim it's become good now is simply delusional.

Here's how the Marxists at The Economist rank countries:

[silverleaf]

Any of that jello sticking to the wall yet?

No?

Well, maybe you can find something nice the Donald said about Putin in the past 20 years ...

[Eccl 10:2]

Marketwatch is a major tool of the Ruling Elite. I would zero weight, or even negative weight, to any politically-oriented column they run.

Marketwatch is good for objective data, charts, company financials (as “objective” as those are - ha!), quotes, and the like.

As far as politics, they are all in with the Globalists.

[trebb]

And a Senator from MS said nice things about Byrd w/o actually being pro-KKK...

[Red Steel]

But another reason Trump hasn’t talked all that much about his ideas is because they’re not, well, conservative enough. “I’m a free trader,” he claims, yet...

No, "free trade" starts with a leveled playing field between the traders or we get unbalanced trade which isn't free.

[papertyger]

He’s a protectionist in free-trader clothes,

I haven't heard him mention tariffs and such except as punitive action against those who will not deal fairly with us.

That's "protectionist?"

[Hawthorn]

Statist economics, along with womanizing and strong anti-foreigner rhetoric.

Where in the history books have I read about that kind of approach?

[GoneSalt]

Trump trolls are the appendix of the human body. No purpose and willing to kill the nation for attention.

[Leep]

Here is a wonderful article by the same guy who wrote this one.

http://news.yahoo.com/why-gop-embrace-obama-062000349.html

[SampleMan]

The fact that other countries want a bite of our carcass is not a sign that we are healthy.

[Republican Wildcat]

[central_va]

He’s a protectionist in free-trader clothes, a stance that squarely aligns him with labor unions, environmentalists and big-city liberals like Nancy Pelosi.

That is absurd. Environmentalists want all industry off shored. To them an ideal America is bike trails and little shops selling jars of honey and skin cremes. They hate nasty factories. Unions are dead; 90% of the manufacturing work force is not unionized. 90%!. Nazi Pelosi is a protectionist? News to me.