Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Roubini Warns of 'Perfect Storm' for U.S. Economy in 2020" video.

  1. Not true, Frederick. The wee bit of apparent truth in your claim is that business corporations, most of which are small, received the largest cut in nominal top marginal tax rates. Since nominal top marginal rates are paid by almost nobody this is lovely sounding rodomontade, but means almost nothing in dollars and cents. Its only small virtue is that it's good housekeeping to make your nominal rates reasonably close to the actual rates people pay after all the deductin's done. What you're presenting here is a very popular line at your Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce dinners. These are hard-working folks, and they deserve a pat on the back from time to time. Pity you choose to do it with flattering half-truths. If you were a wee bit more responsible you would tell them that Trump is a half-wit robbing and wrecking the joint. It wouldn't make you the hardy-hardy-har hero of the moment. It will build the reputation for sense, perhaps even wisdom, on which the long-term success of your practice depends. Do you want to be popular now, or do you want to build a professional practice to pass on to your children? Do you want applause now or your name on a firm that will be respected for thought, good judgement and vision a generation from now? Trumpism will give you the first of these. Thinking it through is harder work, but it gives you a shot at the second.
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  2. Roger all your "sources" above are right-wing opinion pieces, and all the publications except NPR are right-wing rags. You're just another The Apprentice wannabe.
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  3. Raymond, Almost but not quite. The world's banker is the complex of institutions -- and customs, and understandings -- that came together under largely American leadership after WWII. The problem is that Trump is busily trying to smash that all ends up -- not out of revolutionary fervour or brilliant new vision. Out of pure stupidity and ego. Baby wanna hammer on its crib, knock over the blocks, then fly in Air Force One to some place where baby can whine and cry a lot.
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