Did he mention it when he did that promo for The Five?
Posted on 03/17/2016 8:04:48 AM PDT by Trumpinator
Cramer: Listen to Donald Trump
Abigail Stevenson | @A_StevensonCNBC
16 Hours Ago
Jim Cramer is tired of the horse race. He is sick of hearing whether John Kasich can be a comer because he won his home state, or if Ted Cruz can win enough delegates. For once, Cramer would rather go over what Donald Trump is actually saying, and what he would do if elected President.
"Trump has real things to say. They may not be what you think, and they often seem like wishful thinking. But you need to know his views, not just how he is doing coming around the far turn," the "Mad Money" host said. (Tweet This)
In Cramer's perspective the U.S. has been crushed on almost every single trade deal it has done, going all the way back to Nafta. And every time Cramer has asked an official of either party to name a deal that was signed in the last decade that has given the U.S. a trade surplus, no one could come up with an answer.
For years those who have questioned any of the trade deals has been dismissed as foolish. Now that Trump has said that the U.S. government has been horrendous at negotiating these deals, Cramer has no beef with it.
"Say what you will about Trump, I agree with him about these trade deals," Cramer said.
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The downside is that wages for a large swath of Americans is flat or declined. Govt services go up because less people working or making enough to meet ends meet. So there is a huge downside to cheap tube socks, etc.
Also, I have never seen a study that shows that American wages would make American profits go in the red. What is happening is that these companies pocket the difference between American workers and Chinese workers. These companies would still be profitable if made in the USA with American wages - but just not as profitable.
Not really. It seems to be the standard used by the other side in every single case. ;-P
This would be the tax plan predicted to increase the deficit by $10 trillion over the next eight years or so?
...and Trump plans to improve the regulation situation.
That is a very non-specific promise. What regulations or what areas will he improve?
He would allow coal plants for a time, not clear what environmental limits would be...
Wouldn't knowing that be important? After all I for one don't want my air looking like Beijing's or my rivers looking like the Yangtze.
As far as tariffs, he would threaten high tariffs as a starting point and end with a deal.
What if he can't strike a deal?
What would be the end point? Depends on whether the companies can be persuaded to keep jobs here?
Trump has said he will make Apple manufacture their products here. How can he do that with them or Ford or any other company without punishing them?
It gave me a quality guitar cor $100, a large 4k tv for a few hundred, and lots of other things i could never afford otherwise.
But that’s just me. YMMV
It's simple minded nonsense. But it's popular nonsense.
I agree with Trump on this. These “trade deals” destroy American companies and boost America’s enemies and competitors.
China produces 95% of the world's rare earth elements. Those are essential to manufacturing the circuits in everything from cell phones to computer circuits (including the ones in your car).
The EPA will shut down as much mining in the US as it can (and has done fairly well at it already), and is a big part of the reason so many microchips are made overseas.
If you like your cell phone, you can keep it--Which is a good thing, because the price of replacements is going to go up, along with everything that has a microchip in it.
That is just the start.
America is addicted to cheap stuff. Just look at the way people howled when gas was over 3 bucks a gallon.
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Certain countries we should have free trade deals with because they are our allies and have a similar system as the USA does - countries like that include Canada and the EU countries like the UK and Germany.
Countries like China are hostile to the USA and have a compromised legal and worker system. These kind of countries should not be eligible for free trade.
Free Trade deals should be rewarded to countries as they approach American standards of govt and law and freedom. I don't mind competition between countries with similar systems - let the best one win. But anything else creates this imbalance we have now.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/opinion/wright-congo/
Your cell phone, Congo's misery
Because Donald Trump is willing to use tariffs to FORCE countries to behave right, does NOT mean he’s in favor of tariffs, nor that they will be used.
Tariffs are only a last resort.
If a police officer carries a gun, does it make it more, or, less likely that he will be treated with respect?
If a police officer carries a gun, does that mean he’s in favor of shooting people?
Cramer does not get this. or worse, he does, and is choosing yet ANOTHER false attack to confuse people.
Speaking of which...have we ever received an answer from St. Donald about whether he’s going to divest himself of his holdings if he becomes president?
I have yet to hear Trump mention anything about tariffs where it wasn’t in the context of a punitive action.
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He said it a bunch of times his kids will take it over.
In Cramer's perspective the U.S. has been crushed on almost every single trade deal it has done, going all the way back to Nafta. And every time Cramer has asked an official of either party to name a deal that was signed in the last decade that has given the U.S. a trade surplus, no one could come up with an answer.For years those who have questioned any of the trade deals has been dismissed as foolish. Now that Trump has said that the U.S. government has been horrendous at negotiating these deals, Cramer has no beef with it. "Say what you will about Trump, I agree with him about these trade deals," Cramer said.
Your questions are valid, but not enough to do more than posit some additional questions that the negotiator in charge has to answer.
If the choice is to leave things as they are or try for something better, what do you think?
And I do not accept that the air is at risk. We have cleaned the air with auto emission systems and no one is going back to the time when they did not exist. Lets continue to go for cleaner systems, but we do not need to put coal miners out of work just yet. (I agree, if this happens not due to government edict, but due to natural gas being a better fuel, I would let that change happen. What I don’t like is the government deciding based on the inexact science of global modeling.)
As for specific industries being forced back to the US, this is a specific job which must be worked out for each industry. Maybe Apple is a bad example, Trump probably has something in mind, but I don’t know. But I have given my example about my company Lockheed, and they could not get the quality out of Mexican workers that they needed. Even at lower cost. There comes a time when cheap labor and lost hardware wash out and then moving to China makes very little sense.
You’re going to argue against Reaganesque tax cuts?
“Getting an endorsement from Jim Cramer is like getting an endorsement from Glenn Beck. Worrisome.
As opposed to Beck’s record, at least Cramer has been right a few times.
It's given us cheaper underwear at Wal-Mart, things like that. But not in brands that we would necessarily wear.
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