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

  1. Best of luck to Huawei, a fine producer of good and useful products the whole world needs!
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  2. "This time is different," sez Jamie. Yield curve? This time is different. Thanks, Jamie.
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  3. This is basic: Trump doesn't understand win-win. He believes, deep down (as deep as he goes, that is) he believes that you only win if the other guy loses. He's a con man, and In the con man's world that's true. He doesn't know anything about the business world. In real estate he has never made a penny, simply pissing away his father's fortune. On TV he has made a lot of money -- under competent direction. Business? He knows as little about business as he knows about governance.
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  4. "...agree with the President that they have been competing on an uneven playing field" means only one thing: they are willing to whine along with anybody who gives them an excuse to feel sorry for themselves. How in the hell can there be an "uneven playing field" in a commodity traded in US dollars, for which the major market is US pigs and cattle? It's nonsense.
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  5. I'm a Ford supporter in Ontario, but either Carney or Freeland would be a better Prime Minister than poor sour little Poilievre. I trust you're aware that your "Vote for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre for Canadian Prime Minister" is just stupid: The Prime Minister is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the majority of the governing political party. No Liberal MP is likely to listen to your advice, and they're the people choosing the successor to Prime Minister Trudeau right now.
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  6. Warren's going to be in trouble when the public turns up its nose at Coca-Cola and bottled water.
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  7. Anything that makes Donnie Fats shut up is a step forward. Mexico and Canada have handed the Fat One something to pat himself on the back for. Millions pray that he breaks his arm as his does it.
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  8.  @timw8646  Tim, The "red states," the ones that voted for the fat guy, are the net recipients of money from Washington. The Democratic-voting states are the productive ones. They make enough and contribute enough to support the old folks, the rusted-out industries, the farmers, and all the other below-the-line folks who need help. Democrats are contributors. Republicans are whiners and takers.
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  9. You could stand more than 30 seconds of McCarthy? You need help, my friend...
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  10. The market isn't dropping on Apple, it's dropping on Trump. The Dow is headed for 18,360. The only reason it's not headed for 6,800 is Jay Powell is a bright lad.
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  11.  @Rcha1999  This is the first time I've ever seen this show and I am aghast: Joe Kernen is just amazing, a total, total fool -- over and over and over again. Ever four minutes he jumps in, shouting something utterly stupid. Bizarre!
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  12. Why are you obsessing over their obsessing?
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  13. China has a debt problem, but it's not domestic consumer debt. It's the national-provincial mess. The government in Beijing has been financing Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia with fantastic generosity to tamp down the possibility of ethnic minority and regional unhappiness. In Xinjiang that's not 100% successful: the Saudi Wahabi religious operation has also been all over the place, money in one hand and sectarian tracts ni the other: religous nutsiness and unemployed young men are always an unpleasant mixture for everybody, and that includes Beijing. So fine: they pour out the money. How does it get paid back? Well mostly it doesn't. You end up papering it over with some cockamamie rearrangement of the chairs. (If you ever want to see crazy, take a look at Canada's federal-provincial tax "rental" propositions from eighty years ago...) Britain's devolution of powers to Scotland and Wales is the sort of hoo-ha that is probably needed. This is not an economic issue, though, although big trillions of yuan are involved: it's constitutional and administrative jiggery-pokery, and it's a problem they're going to have to face at some point.
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  14. Zoey, This isn't America, it's Trump. They're opposites.
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  15.  @ib1378  Beg Donald Trump for help -- which she's already been trying, and failing at.
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  16. "Flare," you halfwits.
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  17. Obama ended January 31, 2018, Yellen's last day on the job. Good, bad or sideways, it's Trump's craziness now. Markets are buying Trump's giveways to the rich right now.
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  18. No problem, Jordan.. Trump is going to glue the plates together.
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  19. RE, The Dow reached its high, 26,700 or so, on January 31, 2018 -- Janet yellen's last regular day on the job, i.e. the end of the Obama-Yellen Recovery from the last GOP disaster. It has gone sideways since then, and all we have seen is Trump experimenting, like a toddler finger-painting on the door of the fridge, with different ways of causing the next one.
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  20. That's her poiint: the glorious past. Now passed.
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  21. Android is a flavor of Linux, which is a very popular and diverse subset of the Unix/GNU family of software. The PLA has published a Red Flag Linux, at about the same time as, and rather similar in design to, the NSA's very compartmentalized and hence arguably secure Linux. I sorta don't think they'll have too much trouble -- and of course they have all those very bright Finns from the Nokia universe already on their payroll. The comparison of markets is interesting. Middle class Americans versus middle class Chinese? Uh, there are more middle-class Chinese than there are Americans, period. At least the United States' version of Americans. And then there are twice as many Latin Americans as there are non-Latin ones -- and many of them happy to buy Chinese goods if it means sticking a thumb in Uncle Sam's eye. Long story short: Trump doesn't look very good at his job, does he?
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  22.  @nemanjastankovic7200  Sorry, are you asking did they leave back-doors for the US government to spy through? If so, the answer is I don't know. The back-door in C was thought of as sort of a joke in 1972, with no national security spying either intended or imputed to Dennis and Brian, K&R. It was removed pretty quickly. I don't know what you mean by "all the code" not eing there. Even though Linux calls itself a kernel it seems to me any given vaiation can differ from any other by a few lines here and there, so I'm not sure what you would mean by "the code." Cheers, -dlj.
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  23. No, Dearie, MITI is not the "Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Industry." The first I is for "International."
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  24. Hunh?
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  25.  @captinbeyond  the economy; America's place in the world; hope for progress on race; Thanks for asking, Mark.
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  26. Yes it will. We going to have fun watching Trump trying to run a GOP Senate and a minuscule GOP lead in the House for the next two or perhaps four years. The man is a child in a play-pen, and he's going to be even funnier than a panda with a football.
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  27. That's pretty stupid. The United States is one of the half-dozen most honestly and moest efficiently governed in the world. One can criticise some of the specifics. Meself, I think the defense budget is maybe 40% too high and I'd like to see the income cap on Social Security payemnts removed. But those are details. Everybody has some complaints about any democracy. As Winston Churchill is said to have said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
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  28. I hope he's right, and there's a good chance he may be. In any event that's exactly the right attitude to take and emotion to express. I wish the brave sombitch well. One interesting sidelight on this is that China's main challenge of the current period is making the transition to a strong domestically-centred economy, from being weak at the mercy of the outside world and struggling, pulling themselves up by selling to that outside. We've seen this before: they are in the situation of Japan in the late 1960s, when they joined the OECD and took their place as the most junior of the mature economies. As the largest economy in the world, at least PPP, China's juniority is a little odd, but on maturity of form, the shoe still fits. The loud thundering of Trump's empty barrel out there is fine for China domestically: it gives the authorities cover for any of the discomforts they have to cause as they push the transition forward.
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  29. Bitcoin to zero: stupidest fad since flat Earth. Starbucks to zero: five bucks for anything in a foam plastic cup???
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  30. Trump's right: if the Fed operated the way he wants the Dow Jones would be at a million -- and you could buy a coffee for $10,000.
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  31. The Obama-Yellen recovery from the GOP debacle of 2008 ended when Janet Yellen left the Fed. The last day of her term was January 31, 2018, and the Dow was at 26,700. It dropped sharply over the weekend, has touched that peak a couple of times since, but has been running on fumes plus the fact that Jay Powell is a competent guy. Yellen Lite. Trump has goosed the market upwards a couple of times with a.) massive tax relief for the rich, and b.) tax relief for the "return" of corporate profits "held" abroad. Those are bookkeeping quotes: these were called foreign as long as that relieved them of American taxes. Trump gave them tax relief and the companies that own them stopped calling them "abroad." Both of these reliefs are sensibly called sugar highs for the economy. The money released has very largely gone into corporate stock buy-backs. This artificial stimulus is probably the major reason Trump's Dow has not crashed back to the 6800 where George Bush II left it. The gyrations Liu is talking about? It's called a tug-of-war, Trump versus America. Trump is no ignoramus. He knows a great deal. Most of it is wrong. For economic advisors he has Peter Navarro, a fool; Wilbur Ross, certainly a crook very probably in bed with a whole lot of Russians; Larry Kudlow, a TV personality addicted to crazy economic cults and always wrong about everything; Steven Mnuchin, a failed Goldman Sachs financier; and a whole lot of random greedheads. Many of the greedheads have enough brains and mother wit to be appalled by Trump. They are happy to have their taxes cut, and don't mind at all if the courts are filled with half-wits. (The bad news for them is that there is a solid minority of Federalist Society members who have actually read the constitution, and most of them actually support it. But you can't have everything, can you?) There's also a real world out there. Tariffs are bad for the economy. Threatening people is bad for the economy. Smashing alliances is bad for the economy. So the war continues, hurting not just the US but the whole world's economy. Sad.
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  32. One bitcoinm one hula-hoop. Dopes.
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  33. Navarro, Lighthizer, and Trump have been making war on the American economy for a year and a half. At last they begin to win.
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  34. Everybody can compete with you Dummy. The bad news (for you) is that many people are out-competing you very successfully.
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  35. And the Hohenzollern Empire was the largest polity in Europe. And Nissan Japanese? I still think they're Manchurian.
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  36. Wrong. Well, uh, you name "lies" is right, but your post is wrong. Obama repaired the economy, and took the Dow from 6,000 to 18,000 -- and his Fed Chief Yellen took it up to 26,000 in January 2018. That's where it is now.
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  37. China is laughing. Xi Jin-Ping is on a full-time tour signing up trade agreements all over Africa, Europe, and even Latin America. Trump has made a laughingstock of the US, and everybody in the world is happy to see Xi who presides over an actual -- not a fake monetary -- economic success. Chinese work. Republicans play money-inflation games. This can make the Republican sugar-high look good short term Long term? Bet on the Chinese.
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  38. China doesn't import enough to matter, says Ross? Wait until they start slapping export taxes on their large exports to America. How 'bout a 10% tax on Apple products, escalating to 25% in January maybe?
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  39. Perhaps you mean "write"?
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  40.  @bobbuilder7952  Taxes? You don't need a border to know when you've left Canada: the roads suddenly go all to hell. But the obesity rate doubles. Personal freedom no doubt...
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  41.  @kevinszhere1  Uh, no. You're off by five orders of magnitude. Think miles to inches: The give-away to real estate investors may come to $170 billion. with a B.: vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/coronavirus-stimulu
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  42. How quaint, an anonymous right-winger who, unlike all his brethren, claims that his money is hard.
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  43. You miss the fact that all those "innocents" were, exactly like SBF, wannabe crypto grifters. This guy made an "exchange" where they were supposed to rip off the rest of the economy, but he nailed them first.
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  44. And I don't know where Apple stock is going, but I lost a pile of money on Nortel: I bought it after it had dropped 85%, and guess what, it dropped 85% again.
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  45. "Cathy Wood's fund" -- words to put serenity and confidence into the hearts of investors everywhere: NOT.
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  46. This is a reprise of 1972, when Henry Kissinger tried to push Japan around by interrupting soybean exports, back at a time when they were more distinctly a human food. Out of self-protection, Mitsubishi Shoji, the huge trading company, brought the Brazilian soybean industry up to world class in a year flat.
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  47. Johnny's Turban, Trump is destroying America's economy as surely as Cheney and Bush did with their un-financed wars. Running trillion-dollar deficits in a tight, full-employment economy is lunacy. It's not Keynesianism because Keynesians believe in putting away grain in the good years to be ready for the lean ones. It's purest infantile "Hey, Mommy's gone, nobody's watching the cookie jar" budgeting. Donnie invites his rich friends in to give them all the goodies in the house, so they'll think he's rich like them. Crooked, short-sighted, delusional, and bigtime anti-American: all Americans sacrificed for the gold trim and temporary emjoyment of the very very few.
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  48. "Warren," There's some truth to that. It's not Canadians' or Mexicans' responnsibility to cure the fat fool. Americans are going to have to pay the long-term price of his stupidity. Everybody -- world-wide -- suffers the cost of his throwing sand in the gears of the world economy. The sensible thing for us all to do is stay out of the way and wait the the half-wit to crash of his own, as he always has.
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  49.  @masterstacks2030  Bitcoin is, imho, the most intelligently put together of a whole raft of stupid scams. The only good thing that can be said about them all is they are keeping some of their fees out of the hands of the gold bugs.
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  50.  @RealJohnRedcorn  No, John, that's not good enough to get you paid. You have to pput on your innocent voice and then post "Oh, please tell me, who will give me advice on how to make money?" and then your friend writes back "Miss Lulu Lovely gives me good advice and I am making $X0,000 a week nnow." Then you get a third friend to write "How do I find her?" And in the end you all gt paid.
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  51.  @MiguelMartinez-fw7rw  Nope. because he does understand crypto. Fiat currency that you can't buy anything with! What a winner! Not.
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  52. Worth remembering when that high was: The Dow hit 26,700 on January 31, 2018 -- Janet Yellen's last day on the job. It's been downward or sideways ever since, with that high only touched intraday a couple of times. Mostly it's been down. Why? All these economic miracle Donnie is boasting about are in fact eight years' work by Obama and Yellen -- and she ain't there any more.
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  53. What a pleasure it is to see people doing original thinking -- in this case the world-wide total QE, and then normallizing it for currency exchange rates -- just neat!
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  54. Translation: Poor wikkle Trumpykins flailing around as the results of his earlier stupdity slowly become clear to him.
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  55. Given that half of all sci-tech PhDs in the United States are foreigners, you maybe ought to be a little bit more careful about who is benefiting ("stealing" in your language, no doubt) from whom. Without immigrants and foreigners the US is a bunch of Evangelical fools handing out smallpox blankets to the Natives. Currently the Evangelicals have the White House, the Senate and the Supreme Court, so the US is in trouble of its own causing.
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  56.  @RickJames-w5o  Has never won an election, only an appointment by the non-Electoral "College."
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  57. Fire those four assholes!
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  58. Such a loud-mouth, assertive, formulaic, fact-free, echoing empty barrel! Quebec's absurd daily management was set up to put Real Caouette out of business fifty years ago, and it worked. Today's dairy farmers have names like Kraft, Neilsen, and the major co-ops. Trudeau and Freeland will make a major gesture of giving Donnie Fats a victory at a time and place of their choosing, and they will find some way, probably deep in the tax code, to reward the agribusiness folks who are tapping their feet gently on the sidelines. Donnie will screech that he won a great victory, and life will carry on. The whole thing is nonsense, the 275% "tariff" is ony symbolic, nobody pays it because of the quotas, the US sells us more dairy than we sell to them, and the totals involved are derisory -- a couple or three MacDonnell-Douglas jets either way.
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  59. The header here is a lie. There is a very brief mention of Chinese market volatility at 0:48, and the graph shows that on just one measure of it, it's around the middle of its historic range. The rest of the video is just the usual vague blither about whether the market is going lower, has China reached "maturity," et yadda cetera. For anybody actually interested in volatility, there's a good and wise start at https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/021015/what-best-measure-given-stocks-volatility.asp -- and of course Wikipedia is good. If you're interested in a particular stock, avoid the silly pundits and so it yourself with Wikihow: https://www.wikihow.com/Calculate-Historical-Stock-Volatility.
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  60.  @EastMilk  Exactly!
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  61. "Trump says they're bad so I think they're bad, and to solve the problem I'm going to hit myself on the head with this hammer."
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  62.  @StephenRoss-po1rp  This is not true. Canada is a solid industrial power. If we cut off a Trumpian America from cheap oil it would do no more than shave a penny or two off the international price of the Canadian dollar. If necessary we could always make up the difference by offering competitive pricing to Japan or China -- if indeed the lower dollar didn't do that automagically. The good news is a.) Trump is out of power in four years, and doesn't really control his tiny House and Senate majorities even now, and b.) Trump is a nit-wit and will probably by haring after some other shiny new toy by the time you read this.
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  63. Peter Navarro? Bolton without the moustache, Bannon without the leather jacket. The only Trump advisor stupider than Jerry Falwell, Jr.
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  64. It has nothing to do with any trade deal. There is no trade deal. There was a Trump announcement of an agreement to have an agreement. Later. He made the announcement with the outgoing President of Mexico. Quite possibly Trump doesn't even know the guy's time is up. He'll be gone before Trump can even get the legislation written, let alone passed. The stock market is climbing because the joint is awash with cash -- the trillions brought back from abroad under the tax holiday the Republicans have given corporate America. They've spent hundreds of billions on stock buy-backs, which pushes prices up, as intended, and hundreds of billions more is in the hands of company owners and other rich folks. It's a one time thing, pure air, and it will stop soon. Fools' gold.
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  65. APL44X is an obvious loser -- as anybody can tell from looking at the stupidity of all the silly little incels posting paid promotions for it, below.
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  66.  @ragingtyga  You were pretty much correct up to Great Fire Wall. Then you went off the rails, just making stuff up. Naughty tyga. No fresh raw human for you.
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  67.  @worstvideosever4297  There may be a criterion or two by which the US is "the richest in the world," e.g. total capitalization of all stocks traded on exchanges located within its borders. (I dunno: I wouldn't be surprised if somebody snuck up on me and told me Lichtenstein or Grand Bahama was ahead on that one, but...) Query: what criterion did you have in mind?
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  68.  @ragingtyga  It's very irritating that my post doesn't come out next to the post of yours that I was criticizing, and I can't find it now. As I recall, though, you claimed that foreign companies were forced to give part equity and full access to their IT resources to foreign companies operating in China. Both of these are false. I share a good deal of your sour feeling about the present government over there. Their nationalism is a damn shame, and Xi is badly served by the number of ass-licking hangers-on who seem to pop up to worship him. This, however, does not allow you free rein to just make stuff up -- but it seems to be a pretty steady habit of yours. Many of your posts in this column contain gross exaggerations and outright fabrications about China, barstool wisdom of the sort that rightwing drunks normally spew about anybody they don't like. You could be better than that: there's enough accurate material around to support the cases you want to make.
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  69.  @ragingtyga  Your previous claim, Tyga, was that companies, plural and implicitly in general, were forced to give up equity to do business in China. In support of that you now say that Elon Musk is occupying some property owned by a different company? And you leave hanging some dire thought that this will work out badly "years later"? Um. I think perhaps you need to think a wee bit about what "evidence" means. So far you have simply stated an untruth and justified it with an irrelevancy.
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  70.  @ragingtyga  That's a strange and interesting question: I know that your claim is false. So OK, show me your false evidence.
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  71. @Jokeasterfe "American companies follow American laws. Just like Chinese companies follow Chinese laws." you write. Is that like "These two numbers are both random, therefore they are the same number"? In real life, which you should investigate some time, both American and Chinese companies follow local laws except when they don't. In the current case Google is extremely exposed, but you will notice that they are taking extreme care to assure the Chinese that they are following Trump's diktats as narrowly as possible and are doing everything possible to lessen the long term harm being done by this ridiculous little man. "
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  72. Why are these pee pul talking so slow and funny? Can't CNBC hire any English-speaking staff to do their intro?
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  73. ​ Dennis Chu  Utterly. In part it's a matter of his not understanding what America is all about. "His eyes glaze over when you get to the Fourth Amendment," one of his failed briefers famously said. He doesn't know anything about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or even the most elementary facts about hos laws are made and administered. Fundamentally, however, it's a matter of his rather peculiar personality. He weak, unusually self-centered, needy, uninterested in fact but highly skilled at acting, at hunting for people's weak spots, and at the sales skills of flattery and selective presentation of opinions. You'll notice that being thoughtful, knowledgeable, intelligent, or patriotic don't appear on this list. He's a sporadically successful, frequently failed, con-man.
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  74.  Dennis Chu  Don't be so pessimistic, Dennis. The American people are fundamentally sound. 'Course half of them are stupider than the median, and even more than that are stupider than average, so you get some rough spots from time to time, but they'll pull through. As for the Constitution, it strikes me as an astonishingly robust piece of work, though with some faults -- most of them the little victories of the slave-holders of 1787~89 when they were putting it together. You shouldn't be surprised: large numbers of American politicians are intelligent and civilized, and the Constitution is read and understood by people in all walks of life. Be of good cheer.
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  75.  @Lucas75332  And you just hand your money over to her and she gets you rich out of the goodness of her heart? It's just wonderful to hear about such a nice nice person in these sad sad times. 🥰😇😛🤩😍
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  76. The adjective is "Democratic." "Democrat Senate" is the talk of a man who has been too long immersed in too much right-wing propaganda -- so long so that he doesn't realize that he's giving himself away by the words he uses.
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  77. "The Trump put"? Wall Street's confidence that Trump never means a word he says, he'll always chicken out at the last moment, so everything isn't really going down the tubes. It works as long as it works.
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  78. Very little mention here of an ignoramus President randomly at war with both the Amerian and the international economy. Tariffs here and there, which the dummy seems genuinely not to understand are both taxes on American consumers and unpredictable interferences in the planning of business planners at home and abroad. The government shut-down, with a cost in the hundreds of billions so far. Budget deficits of sizes unprecedented even for times of carefully planned economic boost -- but coming without thought or planning in a time of full employment! Yet Trump is not a stupid, nor a complacent man: he is inventive and energetic. What sort of insane tantrum will he dream up next? That's what the markets have a hard time pricing. Only the competence of the EU's and China's leaders, both business and governmental, and of the US Fed, have kept Trump from bringing the whole thing crashing down in some yuuuge repeat of his destruction of Atlantic City.
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  79. For anybody who didn't think this whole crypto scene wasn't flaky enough, we now present a coin headed by Kathy Wood! Enjoy!
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  80. Of course people are getting hurt, Howard. American consumers of steel and aluminum are being hurt immediately. In the longer term, protectionism always brings about the misallocation of investment. Trump is trading a few cheap cheers right now for the long-term sabotage of the American economy. Baby Donnie is a wastrel and a fool in his private life, a danger to everything he touches in his public.
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  81. Yellen's young, smart, tough, and healthy. Also very good at her job: the current excellent Biden economy is to some extent her doing. You'd be better off looking after your own health than posting stupid snark to the 'Net.
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  82. There is a strong difference here: the Chinese government is pro-China; the American government has been subverted by Trump. This means the Chinese will be economically rational. If they "play games" they will simply be switching between long and short term aims thinking in terms of their own strategies and their own internal politics. America, by contrast, will not be rational. It is in the hands of an ignorant, selfish, impulsive, undisciplined, and not highly intelligent individual. Scary times for us all. Very bad times for America.
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  83.  @anissuwarni1263  Amazon has flatlined, Ani, and will probably go south from here on out. Why else would they be hiring all the silly little incels posting infantile promotions for it around here?
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  84. You know nothing about Federal sentencing laws and are simpply making up stuff that sounds plausible to you, but not to anybody who knows anything, as you blow along. You need to grow up before you hurt yourself or others with your stupidity.
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  85. Nope. There's nothing like that amount of lee-way in the Federal slammer. If he behaves himself he might get moved from jail to Club Fed, some Airforce base, after 13 years, then serve up to 22 or so.
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  86. I sorta don't think this John Reed Stark person is in much of a position to accuse anybody else of "runing off at the mouth." Can maybe somebody cut him down to three or four coffees before he goes on camera in future?
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  87. Maria, You're quite right that President Obama was and is popular -- but you seem to forget that Joe Biden was his Vice-President. He's popular, too. Add in the fact that very many people see Trump as a threat to America and suddenly you have a huge turnout. That's why Joe Biden, experienced and popular, beat poor Trump, a clueless loudmouth stumblebum, by seven million votes.
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