Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Bloomberg Television" channel.

  1. Michael, What's the evidence for all this Chinese unfairness?
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  2. What we are seeing here is Trump's childish, ignorant, and stupid view of negotiation -- the view that has dissipated his father's fortune, bankrupted all his major companies, and reduced him to living by lying, apparently on the charity of Russian gangsters. The idjit simply doesn't realise Rule One, that you negotiate for the benefit of both sides.
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  3. Donnie Fats doesn't have the first clue and Secretary Ross is desperately looking for a way to get out of there before the sheriff arrives. The US is totally lost.
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  4. Listen to that audience reaction, a titter every time. Clearly, "An economist asks the Chairman of the Fed a question" is the new "A Rabbi, a Priest, and a Minister walk into a bar..."
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  5. Buicks are made in China, and Cadillacs are largely Chinese. America's main automotive export is BMWs. Trump doesn't know this. Trump doesn't even know the questions, let alone the answers.
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  6. No, he won't be impeached. He will, however, be investigated. And Bannon has apparently borrowed his hairdresser.
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  7. Steven Moore is Herman Cain without the brains. A loudmouth halfwit, but without the business experience.
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  8. No, Marek: if your numbers are right then real interest is -4% and inflation is still six. If.
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  9. Word salad.
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  10. "Chief" Strategist in a White House which had no strategists at all. High-level flap-and-whine cheerleader, more like. Flapping and whining about China 2025? Half of all the business IBM has ever done has been with the US Government. China 2025 is simply The American Way.
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  11. The British public, bless their deluded little hearts, voted for unicorns, cotton candy, and bluebirds singing in the garden. Very few politicians or commentators seem able to tell them...
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  12. Test failed. Trump is a clumsy fumblebum with a honed-for-television voice that sucks in people who can't tell the difference between television and reality.
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  13. "Socialism"? Government of the people, by the people, for the people.
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  14. Because he is a very bright lad with a firm grip on reality... unlike, uh, well, ya know...
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  15. Who shops at Walmart, George? Trump's base. Who's going to love paying $17 for a fine Stanley wrench instead of the so-so Chinese one they can get for a buck at Dollarama? Former Trump base.
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  16.  @adamchase8985  That doesn't compute, Adam: the children were taken away and put in cages exactly so the parents could be incarcerated. Then they were farmed out to random families on waiting lists for white adoption-babies and lost. The "no show for court" thingie, always exaggerated, has no relevance at all to these stolen kids.
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  17. Gotta realize the major difference here: China is only hurting American farmers, while Trump is hurting American farmers, consumers and all manufacturers who use steel or aluminum. The Chinese have left these last three groups completely untouched.
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  18. TrentyStatey, It was Iran's own money. Obama simply stopped his American banks' control over it.
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  19. Um, "...very stable genius..."?
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  20.  @Haywoodjiblowmie  Post Office Emoluments Hotel. Daughter's copyrights as presents from China. Jared's 666 Fifth Avenue bailed out by the telephone company's investment company because of Daddy-in-law's Presidency...
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  21. Dunholm, Delusional. Brexit is a fundamentally unsound piece of economics, the inane dream of people who think Little England means recapturing their fake version of the glories of empire. Nissan are simply acting out business rationality: they want the larger market, the rational bureaucrats, and the peace and quiet of progressive conservative governments not populated by Eton-Harrow windbags and lunatics.
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  22. @El hijo del sol Republican "family values" in action. Seems to me this is a human rights violation in Geneva Convention kinds of ways, and this woman should be on the next plane to The Hague.
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  23.  @debl5848  Nobody said that, Deb. He's making stuff up. Typical Baby Donnie lover.
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  24. Stoufer2000, If they're lucky, maybe Little England will be able to negotiate a freedom to travel agreement so they can commute to jobs in Holland. As foreign workers.
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  25. Nobody has actually come up with any examples of "intellectual" "property" "theft." American companies that want to use cheap Chinese labor have to show the Chinese how the thing they're making fits together. Big deal That's just part of the process. Then you've got the Buick type of case: the Buick uses a superb General Motors engine that won a whole lot of prizes when Cadillac first introduced it years ago. Buicks are made in China. Buicks are only made in China. GM was going to discontinue the marque, but their Chinese marketers pointed out that there was a large market for it over there: everybody who ca't afford a (German) Rolls-Royce wants a Buick. So they kept the car going. That means teaching the Chinese how it works, selling them the chips, giving them the blueprints. Worth pointing out is that the Chinese manufacture it with advanced robots of their own invention and development. We aren't hearing a lot of Americans of this Jay Timmons type owning up to the fact that the Chinese are ahead of us in a lot of stuff on their own. So the Chinese make Buicks for Chinese -- and pay licensing fees, consultants' salaries, and the profits to Americans. Then Trump whines about the theft of all this -- and suits like Timmons -- a PR guy in an association office, not an actual manufacturer -- go along with the whine, at least until the excellent Bloomberg folks beat him back into contact with the real world,
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  26. Doesn't look complicated: simple theft. I don't see how this trial should take more than an hour.
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  27. Giggle! How about, e.g. a 25% export tax on all Apple products? Fracking like crazy plus NAFTA are the only things keeping Canada from slapping "equalization payments," i.e. great big fat export taxes on oil and gas. If the Chinese are pushed far enough -- and this is still six or eight months at the minimum in the future -- the same thought might occur to the Chinese.
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  28. Fundamental? Important? Of course! Trump is the human embodiment of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Entropy always increases in any closed system. Everything goes to Hell in isolation and stupidity and ignorance will always win if there is no steady addition of decency, intelligence, and objectively correct knowledge. Historic? Hell, universal!
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  29. Whoopeee! Trump can't hold it together for three consecutive days! His brilliant new PR guy Bill Shine had him functioning for a couple of days there, but no, he fell off the sanity-horse. Bang. Bump. Same old Trump.
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  30. Brilliant stable genius Trump steps us to save America. From Donald Trump. Sadly, he does his usual incompetent job of it. Nobody is volunteering to clean up the mess he's made in this last little chapter, least of all the people who supplied the energy behind his empty slogans, the crook Ross, the fool Navarro, the greedhead Mnuchkin, heavy-duty anti-Americans every one of them.
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  31. Jin Lei, Well said. It's a pity Xi Has to make retaliatory gestures to show his own manufacturers that he is on their side. It would be both optimal in economic-theoretical terms and glorious as international politics if he/they/China would simply ignore Trump, maybe saying "OK, we'll talk whenever you're ready." Like any bully, Trump is a very weak character, and in this case he is on a foundation of sand because the people he's screwing the worst are American consumers and American manufacturers, starting with the steel and aluminum users.
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  32. Whooppeeeee! Donald Trump steps up and saves America from -- Donald Trump. Sadly, he does his usual incompetent job of it. Nobody is proposing to clean up the mess he's left in this current little chapter, least of all the crook Ross, the fool Navarro, or the halfwits responsible who make up the rest of Trump Train.
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  33. Nothing difficult about Trump's problem. All he has to do is go on TV and speak the simple truth: "Oops. sorry folks, I didn't have the faintest clue what I was doing. I now understand that the world's recent prosperity rests on seventy years of hard negotiation to create a world economy, and I've been screwing that all up with my ego-driven insanity. I have now instructed Secretary Mnuchin to get us back to where President Obama left us in 2017, and to see if we can resume progress from there. We also have some problems apart from my mistakes, problems of the distribution of the wealth we all create by our work and investment through our economy. I'm going to start asking around about that problem. Any day now. Was that OK, Sean? Rush?"
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  34. Not happy with her well-earned plaudits for her excellent investment judgement, here we see Cathie plugging herself relentlessly for a Templeton Prize. My guess is her chances are better if Sir John is not looking down from Heaven at this saccharine performance.
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  35. No, Greg, he's not. He may be the only one you've heard, but what he is saying here is dead center of the consensus of all competent and responsible people who know the field. One place you can start informing yourself might be the Wall Street Journal's very good blogs out of Beijing.
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  36.  @stevej1235  There's nothing ironic about it, it's perfectly natural. 汉字， Han characters or Han-zi in Chinese, is 汉字, Han characters or Kan-ji, in Japanese. The Han => Kan and zi=>ji evolution is the drift of the centuries multiplied by the difference in the background sonorities. Clearly, the use of that "汉" by the Japanese right from the beginning is giving honour where honour is due.
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  37. Nadella reminds me very much here of Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Kwan Yew's son and now Prime Minister of Singapore. There's the obvious difference that he isn't Bill Gates's son, but he is, like the younger Lee, a very highly intelligent man with a hard act to follow, and like Lee apparently carrying it off in style.
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  38. Stung, Yes, trade wars hurt all around. Duh. What would you expect for a man who managed to lose money running casinos? This is a champion loser playing his usual lose-lose. The problem is, the American consumer and the American taxpayer don't have a whole slew of Russian gangsters to bail them out.
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  39. Trump will panic, cut and run, and try to repeat his "Sometimes you have to walk" schtick that he used in Korea. The difference is, Xi is not a low-level con artist like Kim (and Trump) and it will fall flat. The stock market will go sideways because Powell is still a very bright lad. Bleah. Day 800 in the fake Trump Administration will come and go...
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  40.  Gerald Colgrove  The kids were taken away fro them exactly so they could be jailed, er, interned, or deported with their children stolen.
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  41. The first, stifled, laugh was a clear laugh at him. The second, larger, laugh was more serious. After Trump's try at a recovery line, the big smile and the "I didn't expect that reaction," came a larger and more generous laugh. Here's the kicker: it was laughing "with" him, but sympathy at that point was the feeling "Poor Donnie, he just can't help it," or "Oh, the poor guy, he just doesn't have a clue." Sympathy is not the nicest thing in the world when it's compassion for you as a wounded, incompetent, lost baby.
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  42.  Mata Pendejos  Cheerfully.
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  43. No rush. And furthermore Beloved Chairman Kim gave Trump this nice cocktail napkin, so it's a huge victory for Free World's Greatest Negotiator.
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  44. It's really simple: Trump's impeachment must be an event which brings Americans together again. This means it will have to be bipartisan. Republicans at the moment are wandering around in a Fox-filled bubble of unreality. Quite literally, the truth will set them free. What they need is a solid year of hard investigation by enough different committees to cover the waterfront -- and to involve a large enough number of Republicans to make a difference. Not right away, and not by a narrow squeak, but over the long run, on the basis of fact, and by a huge bipartisan majority, then Trump needs to be thrown out on his ass. After that, there will no doubt be bankruptcy courts, his tax trials, and probably a number of criminal trials. These should be allowed to play themselves out, and then whoever's in power should pardon him. He'll be broke, and he will have lost his generous government pension. Then we'll see if any of his "friends" will rent an apartment for him, to supplement his Social Security.
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  45. When you're digging a hole it's good to stop digging. So Cohen, a man with an honorable record of bipartisan, and serious, service might seem to have a point. The problem is that "digging a hole" is not the right metaphor for Trump's Administration. The Trump Administration is a river of sewage. Trump opened the sluice-gate, then jumped into the stream. He doggie-paddled to Hanoi in the stream. He turned around and doggie-paddled back in it. He's still in it up to his neck.
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  46. There's this huge cash overhang looking for places to go. Just relax and watch it roll in...
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  47. That's OK. The way Trump and company are making war on the US economy, pretty soon Americans won't be able to afford beef. Think of soybeans as your gluten-free gluten for manufacturing mock chicken, fake hamburger, and the rest of the Trump Diet(tm.)
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  48. Correspondent to desk: "What part of `I don't have a clue' do you not understand?"
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  49. Small problem: they've gotta keep it secret from #BabyDonnie or he'll screw it up just because he misinterprets something some silly blonde on Fox says about it.
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  50. Of course nothing has changed: there was a period of negotiation; it ended; everybody has told England that several times. Both Tory and Labour leaders are lying completely and constantly. In this situation a dirty crash-out is probably the best possible thing: both the party leaderships and the stupid Bexiteers need the education, and there's no gentle way of giving it to them.
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