If you don't know any better, you'd think that the US will be run by a Putin wannabe. After Trump's election, foreign buyers have balked at buying NYSE-listed White Mountains Insurance Group. Deal-makers - especially involving cross-border deals - are concerned about Trump's nationalism and weaponized Twitter account. Other deal-makers (and prospective deal-makers) are lining up in front of Trump Tower to kowtow to the President Elect. quid pro quo; you scratch my back, and i'll scratch yours. be easy on my company and i'll throw some revenue to the enterprise that will be run by your sons. So far, kowtowers include Japanese SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who wants approval for Sprint (NYSE:S) to participate in wireless consolidation, perhaps by buying T-Mobile, Chinese Alibaba CEO Jack Ma met Trump; his company is the major asset of Yahoo , itself in the midst of a major asset sale to Verizon, After that came the Monsanto and Germany's Bayer CEOs, who seek merger approval. Next up, AT&T leaders are arriving to talk up their Time Warner deal, which is complicated by Trump's dislike of CNN's reporting of the alleged Putin blackmail (of Trump) and subsequently calling up Trump's fake outrage Inview of this, It'd not surprise me to see VW (fuel emission fraud) and Takata (Air bag fraud) kowtowing to lessen the punishment that they've received
Antitrust Laws were put in place to protect consumers. Competition is good; keeps costs down and promotes innovation. Trump is all about lining his and his billionaire friends' pockets at the expense of American citizens. Pretty much what Putin did to Russia with his oligarch friends.
Yep. After coming out of the worst liquidity crisis since the Great Depression, Trump is being handed off an economy better than most of his predecessors.
After Trump had reversed his position to re-affirm the "one-china" policy, in early March, the Chinese government announced that it has awarded Trump a 10-year trademark on his last name for construction services. last week, China followed up w the announcement that it has approved 38 trademarks to the Trump organization, including for massage parlors and escort services. quid pro quo ! A chinese travel agency, state-owned, had previously attempted to buy Hotel Coronado, the ritzy hotel ~on the beach in San Diego, CA. the US Gov't rejected the transaction on National Security grounds, as the hotel is in close proximity to a Navel base. The same Chinese co has just invested $400 million in a NYC building owned by Jared Kushner's (Trump's son-in-law) family; to sweeten the deal, the mainland Chinese will assume $50 million of Kushner's existing mortgage. http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/13/chin...lion-in-building-owned-by-kushner-family.html quid pro quo !
I guess I'm glad we're not reaching towards thermonuclear war. Oh yeah, everything else is totally ****ed and this round of brinksmanship was all of Trumps direct doing if it had come to head. Great way to **** all over the bed, and reaching for kudos from others just for replacing just the sheets.
You probably have never run a business or been involved in business. Companies don't make a deal with a politician and then hire 100k people. That kind of volume of expansion take YEARS of planning and consideration. Long before Trump even announced he was running.
Amazon is just hiring fired retail workers at lower wages, putting them in far shittier work conditions, and those people have less choice because Amazon is becoming a monopoly. They pay a lot less than their counterparts and treat their employees like robots. Basically it is creating a mini-China in the US. It's exactly what Trump calls "bad jobs". And it's no coincidence that it's Amazon. Trump told Amazon they would be in trouble if he became president because he wasn't happy with their tax avoidance practices, Bezos said "YEAH WE'LL SEE ABOUT THAT" and now they are s*cking his d*ck. Bezos also owns the Washington Post in case you weren't aware, which surely factored into Trump's hissy fit. As for you guys, better buy some lube from Amazon. If you work in or own physical retail, you will be working for Amazon soon at 15% less than what you're making and a shock collar. But I guess if you really like numbers, then you can ignore the downside of a more monopolistic, lower-paying shift of 100k jobs from many companies to one company. If that's what you call job creation, then the establishment are best to deliver it.
You're right, the irony was how Trump ran his campaign with attacking Clinton for corruption and his "drain the swamp".
It seems like the Trump administration doesn't care about monopolies as long as they don't question him out in the open. Be interesting to see if they allow the mega merger in healthcare to go through.
There is no irony. If there is to be any irony found, its the fools who think politicians and parties in Washington are not different from each other and actually believe the BS they spout. Let me spell it out to you .. again, for the 1000th time; Politicians only care about your vote. Nothing else. Quit blindly following your party.
I follow policy, if it seems like I'm a democrat it's because I don't see the issue surrounding developed countries as a "supply side". However I don't have a party as I value pragmaticism over tribalism. The irony is that Trump out corrupted Clinton.
So what do you say to the percentage of Americans (the Ted Cruz evangelical folks) who only voted for Trump because James Dobson & co. laid their hands on Trump and called him a "Baby Christian"? They are supporting based on combining their religion with their political stance.... isn't that even more dangerous? And yes..... politicians only care about your vote, and you shouldn't follow blindly. Evidence is most striking in the Republican party during the election where you have guys like Paul Ryan trying to protect themselves and their votes from Trump bringing them down with them. But now that the evidence is there that their voters also support Trump, they want to act like they were on the Trump train all along and come kiss the ring. I'd love to see a world where we didn't have factions of the voters didn't believe the nonsense BS. Maybe then, they would have to start telling the truth when they realized the American voters aren't complete idiots.
