Comments by "Jasper Mooren" (@jaspermooren5883) on "" video.

That's a much smaller set than I expected. These are all western currencies (Japan is economically effectively part of the west), meaning that a general fluctuation in the west, like an economic recession, isn't taken into account. Although maybe that actually makes it more informative in some respects, it does show the US compared to similar economies.
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Yeah I was already hugely surprised and didn't understand it at all when the markets surged when it happened. I would have expected a crash when Trump was elected, but the reverse happened. Usually markets don't like unstable governments, and the fact that Trump's administration would be a massive clusterfuck of random decisions was basically a known quantity even before he was elected. The opposite of a stable political climate that attracts long term investment. I was absolutely baffled when the markets went up.
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@Shadowguy456234 yeah it was practically a forced resignation. It's like either you resign and safe face, or we'll fire you. This usually happens with ministers that are doing badly in parliamentary systems. In most European democracies it just requires a simple majority in parliament to fire a minister (including the prime minister, who's not really any different under the law), so it happens fairly regularly that someone might get a motion of no confidence against them or is about to (in the Netherlands where I live, it happens probably about once a year on average, although it usually happens more in less stable governments and much less than that in more stable governments). But usually just before it happens, the minister in question already knows it's going to happen and resigns instead. So formally, motions of no confidence are pretty rare, but in practice they are somewhat common. Very different from the US, where being a secretary is quite a safe job. And the president even more so. Impeachment basically never actually happens.
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@ Isn't saving face an English expression, meaning something like maintaining your honour? I thought it was, but maybe it's just a bad translation form Dutch. English is my second language.
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@Shadowguy456234 yeah ok, technically there's impeachment and then fully being removed, I meant the second one. Which if my memory has served me well is only Nixon in over 200 years.
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