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yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2018-12-31 07:11 pm
yakov_a_jerkov) wrote2018-12-31 07:11 pm
"MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL"
В то время как жжисты встречают новый год, the hardest working man in America не до веселья. Он отвечает на мою вчерашнюю запись "Кто заплатит за стену?"
Как вы, наверняка, догадались, Мексика и заплатит. Да что там заплатит -- уже платит.
Donald J. Trump:
Как вы, наверняка, догадались, Мексика и заплатит. Да что там заплатит -- уже платит.
Donald J. Trump:
MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL through the many billions of dollars a year that the U.S.A. is saving through the new Trade Deal, the USMCA, that will replace the horrendous NAFTA Trade Deal, which has so badly hurt our Country. Mexico & Canada will also thrive - good for all!Как это прокомментировать... По-моему, Daniel Dale все сказал: "A fitting final fact-check of 2018: This is complete nonsense."
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С новым Трампом вас.
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Намекаете на год Свиньи? Мне нравится ход вашей мысли...
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Gary Cohn was convinced that trade deficits were irrelevant and could be a good thing, allowing Americans to buy cheaper goods. Goods from Mexico, Canada and China were flooding into the United States because they were competitively priced. Americans who spent less money on those imported goods had more money to spend on other products, services and savings. This was the efficiency of global markets. <...>
“If you just shut the fuck up and listen,” Cohn said to both Trump and Navarro, dropping deference for the moment, “you might learn something.”
Goldman Sachs, to Cohn, had always been about research, data and fact. Anytime you went into a meeting, you should have more hard, documented information than anyone else in the room.
“The problem,” Cohn said, “is that Peter comes in here and says all this stuff and doesn’t have any facts to back it up. I have the facts.” He had sent Trump a heavily researched paper on the service economy. He knew Trump had never read it and probably never would. Trump hated homework.
Mr. President, Cohn said, trying to summarize, “You have a Norman Rockwell view of America.” The U.S. economy today is not that economy. Today, “80 plus percent of our GDP is in the service sector.” Cohn knew it was about 84 percent but he did not want to be called out for rounding numbers up. The Goldman way was to carefully round down.
“Think about it, sir, when you walk down a street in Manhattan today versus when you walked down a street in Manhattan 20 or 30 years ago.” He chose a familiar intersection from memory. Twenty years before, the four corners had been occupied by a Gap, a Banana Republic, J.P. Morgan and a local retailer.
“Banana Republic and Gap don’t really exist anymore, or they exist in the shadow of themselves. The local retailer doesn’t exist. J.P. Morgan still exists.
“Now it’s Starbucks, a nail salon and J.P. Morgan. They’re all service businesses. <...>
Cohn found he almost had to shout to be heard. “Look,” he said, “the only time that our trade deficit goes down” were times like the financial crisis in 2008. “Our trade deficit goes down because our economy’s contracting. If you want our trade deficit to go down, we can make that happen. Let’s just blow up the economy!”
On the other hand, Cohn said, if they did it his way—no tariffs, no quotas, no protectionism, no trade wars—“if we do things right, our trade deficit’s going to get bigger.”
And when the trade deficit got bigger each month, Cohn went to Trump, who grew more and more agitated.
“Sir, I told you this was going to happen,” Cohn said. “This is a good sign. It’s not a bad sign.”
“I went to parts of Pennsylvania,” the president said, “that used to be big steel towns and now they’re desolate towns and no one had a job and no one has work there.”
“That may be true, sir,” Cohn said. “But remember there were towns 100 years ago that made horse carriages and buggy whips. No one had a job either. They had to reinvent themselves. You go to states like Colorado, you’ve got 2.6 unemployment rate because they keep reinventing themselves.”
Trump did not like, or buy, any of the arguments. “It has nothing to do with it,” Trump said. <...>
Several times Cohn just asked the president, “Why do you have these views?”
“I just do,” Trump replied. “I’ve had these views for 30 years.”
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