Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "FRANCE 24 English" channel.

  1.  @seifghazi5896  I don't know what that means. Isn't that true of all nobilities everywhere and always?
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  2.  @jasonmuniz-contreras6630  " L'expression de « noblesse de robe » s'oppose à celle de « noblesse d'épée », c'est-à-dire aux nobles occupant les traditionnelles fonctions militaires de leur groupe social." From the placement of your message I'd imagined that noblesse d'épée mean the newcomers who came up with Napoléon. Wrong! They're the older -- the `guard' in old guard.
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  3.  @jasonmuniz-contreras6630  No problem: exactly what I found out. (My mistake to have leapt to the opposite assumption.)
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  4. Lou'zan, You beat me to it, but were rather milder about it.
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  5. That's one of the two key points. The other is that Trump very fundamentally does not understand trade. He continually says things like "We're losing $500 billion a year to China" -- when the fact is the US is running a huge surplus in goods received for nice bits of funnypaper they print. As an infantile bully, he thinks that every exchange is win-lose. He is constitutionally incapable of realizing that trade is a two-way street and that both sides benefit.
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  6. Rees-Mogg and Johnson are hilarious. What a fantastic pair of fools!
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  7. The entire 25,000 Dow is predicated on the American trading floor believing that Trump is nothing but a troll so don't believe a word of it. Their problem is that such a gamble is always right until it's wrong. The Fed is awfully bright, no thanks to Trump, so I don't see everything going totally to hell. My guess is Trump limps into retirement -- and a new career of many different courts and cases -- with the Dow at around 18,300: Yellen-Obama plus inflation.
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  8.  The Mythbuster  Like Daymon Runyon said, "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet." Long run, the market moves with the rest of reality; short term it reflects the interest rate and the views of people drinking at 10 a.m. on Sundays on Long Island. Um, all of these "fluctuate," to use J.P. Morgan's elegantly chosen word.
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  9.  Kalambong Kalambong  Japan is in fine shape, a hefty exporter of capital developing Asia and the rest of the world. America? Not so much anymore.
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  10.  @Terrekain  What's your theory of how investing money increases the money supply, Terry? And how is anybody "overleveraged" if they "invest that money"? Either a simple arithmetical explanation or the authorities you're relying on, either will do.
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  11. Has somebody mentioned to these people that trees net net consume and evaporate water? Those roots go looking for it and the leaves send it out to the wind, quite the opposite of what many people seem to feel...
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  12.  @vikramrazdan5680  Don't bother him with facts, Vikram. He's impervious to them.
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  13. @OneDog Monopoly money is your word, not mine. My point is that what Trump calls a loss is, in fact, the receipt of goods and services in for paper out. Real goods for real money. No loss the way Baby Donnie is always claiming.
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  14. @OneDog Words，images and things take on their value by their contexts, silly puppy. Paper dollars are light in importance compared to the very real goods and services China supplies to the US. Trump, as usual, has his values backwards. China is out in the short run, taking the chance that it will eventually get something back for its paper money. Foreign reserves are heavy when they are in the trillions of dollars, as in Japan's case. It's a simple matter of looking at what is written and what it means, without sniffing around for some silly verbal trick to bark and whine about. Now piss off and scratch your own fleas instead of trying to impute them to me, OK?
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  15. OneDog 19 hours ago @David Lloyd-Jones Lame. @OneDog Speak for yourself, puppy.
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  16. @OneDog If you'll check the record, above, Doggie, you'll find that the first and second instances of name-calling, "lame" and "weirdo," are yours aimed at me.
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  17. @OneDog Just to remind you of the topic here, Doggie, Japan doesn't need help from the IMF and Donald Trump doesn't have a clue about what a surplus in goods and services received in trade means.
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  18. @OneDog {yawn}
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  19. An industrial policy based on backing Trump's choice of winners? Lemme see now, that starts with a clear commitment to West Virginia coal. Steaks? Bottled water? And 150 other bankrupt products? Um, what's your plan B?
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  20. Yup: no clothes. A deadbeat strutting naked in the street. The Age of Emperors ended when the Queen of England stopped being the Empress of India. That stuff is all gone now.
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  21.  @Terrekain  Terry, I don't want to "get you started" on anything. I was rather hoping you would finish up with your claim that investing money increases the money supply and that investing money makes people or banks overleveraged. You seem to have posted at me twice while avoiding doing so in both posts.
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  22. A half-truth. No doubt the best 1% of the nobles' offspring are right up there with the best 1% of the peasants'.
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