The poor are getting richer - time to cripple the economy by sharply increasing rates. That's the kind of mentality behind the current Fed. People deliver themselves out of poverty with good paying jobs. Only one candidate's policy deals with the wage-depression effects of immigration. The other candidate lives inside the bubble. Don't put yourself inside the bubble.
Hey High School - your chosen candidate, Trump, spent the last two days whining that interest rates were too low as part of a conspiracy to prop up Obama and Clinton.
Pretty good Economist op/ed Post-truth politics: Art of the lie excerpt: [rquoter] That politicians sometimes peddle lies is not news... ...But post-truth politics is more than just an invention of whingeing elites who have been outflanked. The term picks out the heart of what is new: that truth is not falsified, or contested, but of secondary importance. Once, the purpose of political lying was to create a false view of the world. The lies of men like Mr Trump do not work like that. They are not intended to convince the elites, whom their target voters neither trust nor like, but to reinforce prejudices. Post-truth politics has many parents. Some are noble. The questioning of institutions and received wisdom is a democratic virtue. A sceptical lack of deference towards leaders is the first step to reform. The collapse of communism was hastened because brave people were prepared to challenge the official propaganda. But corrosive forces are also at play. One is anger. Many voters feel let down and left behind, while the elites who are in charge have thrived. They are scornful of the self-serving technocrats who said that the euro would improve their lives and that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Popular trust in expert opinion and established institutions has tumbled across Western democracies. Post-truth has also been abetted by the evolution of the media (see Briefing). The fragmentation of news sources has created an atomised world in which lies, rumour and gossip spread with alarming speed. Lies that are widely shared online within a network, whose members trust each other more than they trust any mainstream-media source, can quickly take on the appearance of truth. Presented with evidence that contradicts a belief that is dearly held, people have a tendency to ditch the facts first. Well-intentioned journalistic practices bear blame too. The pursuit of “fairness” in reporting often creates phoney balance at the expense of truth. NASA scientist says Mars is probably uninhabited; Professor Snooks says it is teeming with aliens. It’s really a matter of opinion. ... [/rquoter]
More positive news for the economy and more reason to not do Trump. Trump would do havoc to the steady pace of progress with his isolationism, craziness, and rojo thinking. Vote for Trump if you want to risk stopping progress and an economic disaster.
Trump Has 5-Point Lead in Bloomberg Poll of Battleground Ohio Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points in a Bloomberg Politics poll of Ohio, a gap that underscores the Democrat’s challenges in critical Rust Belt states after one of the roughest stretches of her campaign. The Republican nominee leads Clinton 48 percent to 43 percent among likely voters in a two-way contest and 44 percent to 39 percent when third-party candidates are included. The poll was taken Friday through Monday, as Clinton faced backlash for saying half of Trump supporters were a “basket of deplorables” and amid renewed concerns about her health after a video showed her stumbling as she left a Sept. 11 ceremony with what her campaign later said was a bout of pneumonia. Trump’s performance in the poll—including strength among men, independents, and union households—is better than in other recent surveys of the state. It deals a blow to Clinton after she enjoyed polling advantages nationally and in most battleground states in August before the race tightened in September as more Republican voters unified around Trump. Read the questions and methodology for the poll in Ohio, a state that has backed the winning presidential candidate in every election since 1964, here. “I’m tired of career politicians being in office and nothing’s ever changed,” said Darren Roberts, 45, a facilities maintenance and home improvement retail worker who lives in Columbus and considers himself an independent. “I don’t like all of his policies, but I really don’t like Hillary Clinton’s.” Trump's strength in Ohio, a state critical to his path to the White House, comes even as seven in 10 say they view one of his signature campaign pledges—to build a wall along the southern U.S. border funded by Mexico—as unrealistic. (Mexico’s peso weakened, reversing an earlier gain, after the poll showed Trump leading.) The survey shows a strong majority of likely Ohio voters, 57 percent, are skeptical of trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement that was backed by Clinton's husband when he was president and that Trump has used to his political advantage. One in five say such deals help increase exports and employment, and 23 percent aren’t sure. More than four in 10 Clinton supporters see NAFTA as a bad deal, compared to seven in 10 Trump loyalists.
The nation goes as Ohio goes. If he can hold Ohio and continue this momentum it's going to be a landslide.
Lol at the rubes who are happy Trump is winning in Ohio... I thought you folks were voting for Johnson? Are you now proud Trumpettes?
I am still hoping that. It's becoming more disconcerting that Trump is actually caught doing what the Republicans have been trying to pin Hillary on and his supporters don't care. It's very clear this isn't a campaign about policy or facts.
Not really. It looks to me like, if he can take Ohio, he'll still need to also take North Carolina (doable), Florida, Nevada, and New Hampshire. Or he can sacrifice a couple of those for Pennsylvania, if he can take that one. Those last 4 are leaning Clinton at the moment.
Why is this comment not getting more attention?!?!? Just two weeks ago, all of the polls were flawed at best and were an outright conspiracy by the leftist media at worst. Now RocketsLegend, you're trumpeting their results? Explain the hypocrisy please...
The sad thing is when I took a trip to the Clinton reddit none of them blew off these polls. It seemed that most thought it meant that they had to work harder so that Clinton could win. It's telling how many Trump supporters are so open to conspiracy.
Trump's lead in Ohio is so yuge, even after gaming the results the leftist media conspiracy still can't make it show a Clinton victory.
