45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. (Vol 4)

[Zod]

Rich_W said:

The fking EU Commission saying "protectionism is not the answer"

Are they even the slightest bit self aware. The whole EU is protectionist!

Really? Justify that assertion.

[The Dangerous Elk]

Ask and African farmer to

[Byker28i]

NRS said:

This whole "will they/ won't they" thing with Kim has more ups and downs than the storyline of Twilight!

"Hey donald, pick up the hotel bill..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-secu...

[ScotHill]

They really know how to appeal to Donald's ego - look at that smile on his face!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44339...

[minimoog]

ScotHill said:

They really know how to appeal to Donald's ego - look at that smile on his face!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44339...

Huge envelope to make his hands look tiny - top trolling from NK

[anonymous-user]

Byker28i said:

Trump told reporters that Kim had written him a very nice letter, a very interesting letter.

8 minutes later he said he hadn't opened it yet.

He meant Kardashian. He's not very smart, couldn't tell the difference.

[p1stonhead]

minimoog said:

ScotHill said:

They really know how to appeal to Donald's ego - look at that smile on his face!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-44339...

Huge envelope to make his hands look tiny - top trolling from NK

Genius

[Rich_W]

Zod said:

Rich_W said:

The fking EU Commission saying "protectionism is not the answer"

Are they even the slightest bit self aware. The whole EU is protectionist!

Really? Justify that assertion.

So you voted to Remain and you don't even know what sort of organisation you want to shackle the UK to for the rest of time?


Google "EU Common Agriculture Policy". Or take a quick look at

http://www.tuaeu.co.uk/how-the-eu-starves-africa/

With regards to the USA

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/january...

On Cars
EU duty on imports
from the US is 10%

US duty on imports
from the EU is only
2.5%

So whereas the US wants EU cars, the EU tries to dissuade that.

Elsewhere from the Internet. EU tariffs on products from Nigeria

15% tariffs on live animals
•26% on meat and edible meat offal
•31% on dairy produce, birds’ eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin not elsewhere specified or included
•12% on edible vegetables and certain roots and tubers
•18% on products of the milling industry; malt; starches; inulin; wheat gluten
•23% on preparations of fish and meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates
•28% on sugars and sugar confectionery
•18% on preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plants
•19% on tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes

[minimoog]

Rich_W said:

So you voted to Remain and you don't even know what sort of organisation you want to shackle the UK to for the rest of time?

Naturally all the Brexit gammons have those numbers at their fingertips in case anyone asks them why they wanted out.

[rscott]

Rich_W said:

So you voted to Remain and you don't even know what sort of organisation you want to shackle the UK to for the rest of time?


Google "EU Common Agriculture Policy". Or take a quick look at

http://www.tuaeu.co.uk/how-the-eu-starves-africa/

With regards to the USA

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2015/january...

On Cars
EU duty on imports
from the US is 10%

US duty on imports
from the EU is only
2.5%

So whereas the US wants EU cars, the EU tries to dissuade that

And the US do the same to the EU on light trucks - 25% on light trucks/vans compared to 10% on vehicles imported to the EU.

So the US try to dissuade the import and sale of EU made vehicles too.

[vonuber]

Rich_W said:

So you voted to Remain and you don't even know what sort of organisation you want to shackle the UK to for the rest of time?

One which looks out for the interest of it's people and industry?

[Tallow]

Are there not enough threads where Brexit is discussed ad infinitum already ffs?

[Halb]

We could try and squidge it into the SOlo thread,

SOlo is tanking thanks to brexit?

[minimoog]

coyft said:

The unemployment rate ticked down to a seasonally adjusted 3.8%, matching April 2000 as the lowest reading since 1969.

Certainly he's managed not to reverse the trend established over the previous 8 years.



Although the churlish might mention this

average monthly job growth:

—first 16 months of Trump presidency: 185K

—last 16 months of Obama presidency: 215K

But obviously I wouldn't

[Tallow]

minimoog said:

Certainly he's managed not to reverse the trend established over the previous 8 years.


Although the churlish might mention this

average monthly job growth:

—first 16 months of Trump presidency: 185K

—last 16 months of Obama presidency: 215K

But obviously I wouldn't

TBF, as the unemployment drops, the rate of job growth might well drop because it is that much harder to fill those positions. Certainly, filling skilled roles is increasingly hard for businesses so maybe they are using different methods to help improve capacity.

[minimoog]

coyft said:

Not bad for an imbecile!

Let's see how his trade war plays out before nominating him for the economics Nobel too

[minimoog]

Tallow said:

TBF, as the unemployment drops, the rate of job growth might well drop because it is that much harder to fill those positions. Certainly, filling skilled roles is increasingly hard for businesses so maybe they are using different methods to help improve capacity.

I'm aware that the closer you get to full employment the harder it will be to fill the last few jobs. Regardless of the comparative rates under Obama and Trump the stats clearly show that Trump has done absolutely nothing that could could be regarded as enhancing the situation he inherited, namely a steady downward trend in unemployment.

But he hasn't totally fked it up either, yet. So, y'know, credit where it's due

[minimoog]

coyft said:

Yes, ‘cause if the US ends up on the right side it will be down to pure luck or something Obama had started anyway.

No - he'll own this one, whichever way it plays out.

[Tallow]

minimoog said:

I'm aware that the closer you get to full employment the harder it will be to fill the last few jobs. Regardless of the comparative rates under Obama and Trump the stats clearly show that Trump has done absolutely nothing that could could be regarded as enhancing the situation he inherited, namely a steady downward trend in unemployment.

But he hasn't totally fked it up either, yet. So, y'know, credit where it's due

I think you'd have to do something pretty extreme to shift a country into recession single handedly (even by Trump's standards!)

The real test is gonna be a year or two down the road I reckon. Course by then, if it's another president, anyone pro-Trump can just blame them

[minimoog]

Tallow said:

I think you'd have to do something pretty extreme to shift a country into recession single handedly (even by Trump's standards!)

The real test is gonna be a year or two down the road I reckon. Course by then, if it's another president, anyone pro-Trump can just blame them

Indeed. If you can peek behind the paywall this is an interesting article in WaPo about how his current policy appears to mirror the (eventually disastrous) mercantilism which prevailed a few hundred years ago.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-tra...