Trump's solution for creating jobs- an illusion?

03/23/2016

With no tangible solutions for creating jobs, and a policy of high tariffs that could create trade wars and destabilize the global economy hurting growth worldwide, jobs lost in the last decade mostly not coming back, questions raised about how this will improve the prospects for jobs, upward mobility for middle class, working class people.

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Trump’s Useless Revolution

Wall Street Journal 03/24/2016

Holman W. Jenkins, Holman, W., Jenkins

Washington Post 03/23/2016

Donald Trump, Donald, Trump, The Editors Of The Washington Post, The, Editors, Of, Washington, Post, Ryan Jr., Ryan, Jr., Hiatt, Lane, Marcus, Diehl, Armao

Donald Trump's proposal for 45% tariff on China's exports to the U.S.- how a policy of bringing jobs home could lead to the loss of 1 million U.S. jobs

03/08/2016

By damaging the international trading system including with allies such a Canada, Britain, France and Germany, the result of a downward spiral through higher tariffs in other countries, could end up costing the U.S. 1 million jobs. Under such a system the U.S. would lose many of the advantages of its booming tech sector, its tech driven global advantages in many industries, without signifcant gains in low cost imports such as clothing which would simply migrate to other countries such as India. The problem of worker wage stagnation in the U.S., and loss of jobs in certain sectors, is very real, but this is the wrong way to tackle the problem. China is already moving towards a consumer driven economy. Economists show that trade with Mexico would be seriously hurt both ways, creating more pressure of migrants at the border under such proposals as a 45% tariff and its indirect effect on Mexico, when the actual fact is that net migration from Mexico is the lowest it has ben in decades. Politics can do strange things as when two senators Smoot and Hawley from agricultural states Utah and Oregon, at the head of important committees in the U.S. Congress pushed and passed legislation for a 60% tariff in 1930 for the industrial sector they had no idea about. When Smoot and Hawley lost reelection in 1932 they left behind a lot of damage, especially for the farmers and workers they thought they were fighting for.

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How Trump’s Hard Line on Trade Could Backfire

Wall Street Journal 03/25/2016

Bob Davis, Bob, Davis

Wall Street Journal 03/08/2016

Holman W. Jenkins Jr., Holman, W., Jenkins, Jr.

The Trump U.S. Republican presidential campaign and the deterioration in the political discourse in the U.S. in 2015-2016

01/27/2016

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Trump’s toxic temperament should disqualify him from the presidency - The Washington Post

Washington Post 01/29/2016

Michael Gerson, Michael, Gerson

Wall Street Journal 01/27/2016

William A. Galston, William, A., Galston

Donald Trump's Style Book and the campaign for the 2016 U.S. Republican primaries

01/25/2016

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Behind Donald Trump’s Attack Strategy

Wall Street Journal 01/25/2016

Monica Langley, Monica, Langley

Wall Street Journal 01/25/2016

Ben Jenkins, Ben, Jenkins

The U.S. presidential election campaign in 2016- the Republican primaries and the contest between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz tapping into anger at the grassroots

01/15/2016

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Republican Debate Defined by Trump-Cruz Clash

Wall Street Journal 01/15/2016

Patrick O'connor, Patrick, O'connor, Janet Hook, Janet, Hook, Beth Reinhard, Beth, Reinhard

Washington Post 01/15/2016

Dan Balz, Dan, Balz

The weakness in Trump's candidacy and the upsurge for Ted Cruz before the Iowa Republican primary

12/10/2015

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Trump Is the Democrats’ Dream Nominee

Wall Street Journal 12/10/2015

Karl Rove, Karl, Rove

Wall Street Journal 12/10/2015

Janet Hook, Janet, Hook

The problems threatening the white working class in America and the rise of cultural illiberalism

11/12/2015

Experts point to the economic anxieties of the white working class in America, a broad group that has increasingly fallen behind as technology advances in the 21st century with globalization and mobile capital, causing serious social fissures in society. One of the dangers is to the ideas of liberal society itself with the rise of cultural illiberalism, such as that presented by the Trump candidacy for president in 2016, and Marie Le Pen's National Front in France, as liberal elites in centre right and centre left lose their hold on working class voters.

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The Bleak Reality Driving Trump’s Rise

Wall Street Journal 12/16/2015

William A. Galston, William, A., Galston

Washington Post 11/12/2015

Andrew J. Cherlin, Andrew, J., Cherlin

Trump's casinos and Griffin's Citadel hedge fund- risky financial investments and path from collapse to recovery

08/04/2015

WSJ reporters Grant and Berzon on Trump, and Copeland on Ken Griffin of the Citadel hedge fund provide an inside look at the financial dealings and maneouvring of Trump, the huge risk and leverage taken on at Citadel by Griffin. In doing so they provide insights into the manner of operating and personality of the two businessmen.

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Trump and His Debts: A Narrow Escape

Wall Street Journal 01/04/2016

Peter Grant, Peter, Grant, Alexandra Berzon, Alexandra, Berzon

Wall Street Journal 08/04/2015

Rob Copeland, Rob, Copeland

The women's vote in 2016 U.S. presidential election and the antiincumbency mood of 2016- risks for Clinton running a cautious campaign and big risks for Trump

06/11/2015

Hillary Clinton needs a vigorous campaign away from the cautious instincts of the early days of her campaign, as Trump seeks to deflect criticism by attacking Hillary Clinton, say experts. The risks are high for Trump if the effort backfires alienating the vast majority of women, including Sanders supporters, independents and traditional Republican moderates. This is one of the wild twists of the campoaign of 2016- a candidate apparently making sexist comments to attract the support of white women voter- and men.

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Hillary Needs More Than the Obama Coalition

Wall Street Journal 06/11/2015

William A. Galston, William, A., Galston

New York Times 04/28/2016

Amy Chozick, Amy, Chozick, Ashley Parker, Ashley, Parker

The miscalculations and missteps of Russian president Putin in 2014 leading to a major crisis for the Russian economy in 2015

12/18/2014

A major miscalculation was totally misjudging Merkel and post-war German public opinion about policies that remind people about the period between the two World Wars- this is anathema to Germans who see the European Union as a way to build a new and different Europe. The other miscalculation was on how a foreign adventurous policy in Syria would affect Sunni world opinion, in particular Saudi Arabia. Just as Brezhnev took Russia into Afghanistan where Russia had no vital interest leading to eventual Soviet collapse, Putin risked alienating a key member in OPEC pricing moves and hurting Russia's economic interest. By not listening to Kudrin, the head of Sberbank, and other economic advisers from the first and second terms of the Putin-Medvedev administrations, Putin opened the door to two years of serious missteps, risking the very real accomplishments of the first and second term of creating a stable growing Russian economy with close economic ties to Europe. The only positive outcome of the crisis and low oil prices would be making the shift away from oil dependence, which was talked about but never seriously attempted in the Putin administrations. For this to happen major new investments would have to be made and technology links to the outside strengthened, both hammered by the missteps in 2013-2014. The irony of all this is that Putin gained the support of rural Russians in the countryside in the 2012 presidential elections by promising no return to the economic crisis conditions following earlier ruble collapses. Now by ignoring Kudrin and other wiser counsel from the first and second administrations he does just that.

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Putin’s Year of Defiance and Miscalculation

Wall Street Journal 12/18/2014

Gregory White, Gregory, White, Anton Troianovski, Anton, Troianovski

Wall Street Journal 12/18/2014

Alexander Kolyandr, Alexander, Kolyandr, James Marson, James, Marson

A shift in opinion towards vigorous discussion about austerity for the first time since 2010 when the eurozone crisis began- Valls, Gabriel, Asmussen, Renzi, Draghi, Lagarde join the debate

10/09/2014

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Germany, France Tap Economists for Advice to Avoid ‘Lost Decade’

Wall Street Journal 10/14/2014

Harriet Torry, Harriet, Torry, William Horobin, William, Horobin

New York Times 10/09/2014

Jack Ewing, Jack, Ewing, Alison Smale, Alison, Smale

Warnings at a banking conference in Moscow in October 2014, and the ruble on the brink of collapse on Dec. 17, 2014

10/02/2014

The central bank head, Nabiullina, the Economy minister, Ulyukayev, and the head of Russia's largest bank Sberbank, German Gref, all expressed skepticism about president Putin's confidence in economic policy at a banking conference in Moscow in Oct. 2014. The architect of Russia's finances in the first and second terms of Putin, Alexei Kudrin, expressed alarm in Nov.-Dec. 2014 about lack of confidence in economic measures as the ruble took a hit from lower oil prices. The Putin administration made errors in handling economic policy leading to the ruble going to the brink of collapse by Dec. 17, 2014. This was preceded by miscalculations in policy towards the European Union and Germany leading to a loss of international confidence, and deteriorating relations with OPEC's leading member Saudi Arabia leading to OPEC's production decisions hurting Russia.

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Russia Introduces Measures to Calm Economic Jitters

New York Times 12/17/2014

Andrew Roth, Andrew, Roth

New York Times 10/02/2014

Andrew E. Kramer, Andrew, E., Kramer