She's been in few ''school fights''..So she's as qualified as Hegseth to be Defense Secretary, lol... Did I hear that right?
The garbage you put up....
TRUMP WINS
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The garbage you put up....
Trump's only criteria to qualify for these posts is that the people he appoints to these posts are loyal to him.
Therefore you will see that anyone he appoints to these posts will generally either be dumb or cruel.
It is those kind of people that will ally themselves with someone like Trump.
men on this forum probably (and hopefully!) scream "Oh God!" more often than those on Christian mingle
It sounds like this is personal for you. Perhaps you also have a personal interest in a business in China.
While U.S. monetary policy has an impact on the global economy, it's rather straightforward and predictable what the U.S. Fed is doing. You and some of our members are probably aware of real interest rates (the nominal interest rates minus the inflation rate). Real interest rates in the U.S. were negative or negligible during 2020-2022. Real negative interest rates at a time of high inflation is unsustainable. It wasn't just a policy choice to raise rates, it was a necessity.
I could go on about global finance mechanisms, but the basic framework of the point is that inflation always leads to higher U.S. interest rates. Global economic activity generally performs better when U.S. rates are low, however the Fed must stabilize prices and manage the domestic economy first.
Incidentally, foreign direct investment in China has fallen in recent years. There doesn't appear to be a U.S. and Western move to buy Chinese assets. And by the way, China stills controls capital flows in and out of China. The Wall Street scenario you painted is not realistic given China's regulatory parameters.
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I think what Trump learned in his first term is that the Washington bureaucracy runs itself and answers to no one. So it's not a revelation to say that reform has to come from the outside. When corporate leaders reform a large organization, they often come from the outside and bring with them loyal lieutenants. Otherwise, the bureaucracy will eat you alive.
We'll see what the Trump Administration can do.
Its not personal as I hold a Canadian passport and no assets in China, but I didnt expect anyone here to adopt this POV. Cheers.
didn’t seem personal to me, just seemed like you were providing a bit of a paradigm reframing, but ya, those never feel welcome lmao.
also reminds me of some stuff I read about geopolitical multipolarity (not so mainstream either, it was some stuff from Dugin’s tg channel lol)
I am personally immensely entertained by it all and distracted AF from my daily adult tasks lmao
Whether you are right wing or left wing, this is very true.
It is extremely entertaining!
It will be even more so when the media goes nuts after Trump takes office. lol.
and liberals on terb are having a meltdown because Trump won POTUS...OMG! OMG! OMG! Trump won!
But you live in Canada the land of the lefties!!
he will demand and expect loyalty , hardly a unique criteria for any leader
your statement that anyone he appoints to these posts will generally either be dumb or cruel is disingenuous, foolish and reeks of sour grapes
especially considering the blithering fool the democrats had as their candidate
As mentioned before US politicians trade campaign denotations and favors like baseball cards
inherently this system leads to questionable appointments independent of repub / democrat
he will owe favors, although he will view these as rewards
likely there are people who helped him carry what were suppose to be battle ground states who will be looking for an appointment
a rough around the edges , no-nonsense department head might not be a lot of fun to work for but will deliver on his / her assigned objectives vs a bumbling fool activist who puts his personal agenda ahead of the electorates interest - Steven Guilbeault
do you not recall Justin choosing his cabinet using boy / girl/ boy / girl/ boy / girl.........
the results speak for themselves
decisive / firm / competent (what you described as cruel) likely will better than appointments based on silly assed woke / quota based appointments
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There are a lot of preconceptions on this board, true. Everyone has them, its hard to function without them.
I think team MAGA is excited for revenge but has conveniently forgotten the daily scandals in incompetence.
Somehow they think the second time the orange guy makes america great again it will really take.
How perfect that the adjudicated rapist and convicted felon appointed a sex offender as AG.
There might be something there, but it was kind of a jingoistic tale of China rising again and vanquishing Western domination. I no doubt that China is a great economic power and will continue to be. The whole Fed interest rate's policy forcing Chinese businesses to sell cheap to Wall Street is pure and somewhat scary fiction.
The Chinese economy is hitting its first major bump in the road since it began liberalizing business activity. If you cite on social media the predictable economic patterns that all economies go through on social media, you will be meet a chorus of "China has a different economic model that does not follow Western economic theory". The funny thing is its just economic theory. There's no such thing as Western economy theory. Certain things happen when you overinvest into the productive side of your economy and then continue to lean on it as the growth model longer after the investment has reached diminished returns. The Soviets ran into it. Brazil ran into it. Japan ran into it. It's always going to be different this time.
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