Second ('Third') Trump Presidency Thread

nsacpi said:
My career has been in finance (which interestingly is considered a STEM field). Anyhow, my most significant contribution has to do with my role when I was at Barclays Capital (1997-2005) in developing the TIPS market. We had a triad of research, sales and trading. I was mostly on the research side. But also worked with sales, including educating the sales force and clients on the product. And I helped to develop some fairly profitable trading strategies.
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Very cool - Finance (Corporate side) as well but primarily data modeling facilitating planning decisions. Tools that are out now are incredible - Can't imagine how laborious of an exercise it was to do these things when you did them.

I always knew you were high IQ. Just too many blind spots which is a shame.
 
Does trumps success in the Middle East which has said to be impossible give pause to people who criticize his other strategies globally or domestically (including economics)?
 
thethe said:
4K workers laid off in a RIF.

Libertarians getting so much of what they wanted. We’ve just begun.
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I won’t speak for other L’s, but on principle I don’t celebrate people losing their job. Especially when the government is otherwise making minimal progress to reign in spending.

The problem isn’t 4k workers who cost the government a few hundred million a year. The problem is the people who hired these people to do an unnecessary job that the people who were hired to do the unnecessary job.

It’s the mountains of pork that continue to plague how the legislative and executive branch operate.
 
chop2chip said:
I won’t speak for other L’s, but on principle I don’t celebrate people losing their job. Especially when the government is otherwise making minimal progress to reign in spending.

The problem isn’t 4k workers who cost the government a few hundred million a year. The problem is the people who hired these people to do an unnecessary job that the people who were hired to do the unnecessary job.

It’s the mountains of pork that continue to plague how the legislative and executive branch operate.
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Less government means less gridlock. It forces people to be more productive in private sector. That’s a good thing.
 
I love though that people continually said Trump didn’t know what he was doing in the Middle East and yet we have a groundbreaking peace agreement and future amongst Arab nations but for sure this time we need to listen to consensus expert opinions on economics.

Fall into the same traps over and over and over.

Trump saw that the past in the Middle East did not dictate its future and that new situations propped up that brought about new opportunities. Those that think today is the same as yesterday will always be doomed to fail.
 
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