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Trump administration 2024-2028

ModlrMike said:
I wonder what the markets are going to look like tomorrow.
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Danish pension fund to sell $100 million in U.S. Treasuries due to "poor U.S. government finances"

The chief investment officer of AkademikerPension said the decision was not directly related to the rift between the U.S. and Greenland.
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This news came out early this afternoon, and was hinted at last night I believe. A fair bit of that’s probably already priced in. The Euros walking away from ratifying the summer trade deal will hit harder.

We tend to look at the USD’s strength relative to the Canadian Dollar for obvious reasons. But when you look at the DXY U.S. Dollar index, the strength of their dollar is down about 8.8% since Trump’s inauguration. I’m surprised that’s not mentioned more.
 
brihard said:
This news came out early this afternoon, and was hinted at last night I believe. A fair bit of that’s probably already priced in. The Euros walking away from ratifying the summer trade deal will hit harder.

We tend to look at the USD’s strength relative to the Canadian Dollar for obvious reasons. But when you look at the DXY U.S. Dollar index, the strength of their dollar is down about 8.8% since Trump’s inauguration. I’m surprised that’s not mentioned more.
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Currencies dropping only matters when it's the CAD and it's used to make certain politicians look bad.
 

Absolutely agree with Judge Novak that Halligan had no business to hold her position, whereupon she instituted a series of malicious prosecutions for Trump including charging Comey.

But … I don’t know enough about US process and law that the courts in the Eastern District of Virginia engage in a process to seek, solicit and appoint a DA which is normally a Federal appointment made by the Executive Branch.
It seems odd that Courts will now appoint the person who will act as Chief Prosecutor in a federal district.

I would note the EDVA is the same district Research In Motion (BlackBerry) lost the largest patent infringement action (at that time) to a redneck jury trial in 2006/7. Speaking from personal experience there were a lot of unusual goings on in that District.
 
Cloud Cover said:

Absolutely agree with Judge Novak that Halligan had no business to hold her position, whereupon she instituted a series of malicious prosecutions for Trump including charging Comey.

But … I don’t know enough about US process and law that the courts in the Eastern District of Virginia engage in a process to seek, solicit and appoint a DA which is normally a Federal appointment made by the Executive Branch.
It seems odd that Courts will now appoint the person who will act as Chief Prosecutor in a federal district.

I would note the EDVA is the same district Research In Motion (BlackBerry) lost the largest patent infringement action (at that time) to a redneck jury trial in 2006/7. Speaking from personal experience there were a lot of unusual goings on in that District.
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After what has been learned to-date, are you of the opinion that Comey has done nothing wrong?
 
QV said:
Trump says a lot of uncomfortable truths in an unsophisticated and often inflammatory way.
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He expects us to kiss the ring every time we open our mouth, not to mention we havent joined the golden dome program, thats like me mowing your lawn, then demanding payment even though you never asked me to.
 
QV said:
After what has been learned to-date, are you of the opinion that Comey has done nothing wrong?
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With everything we know about this Admin's retaliatory prosecution, can you say he hasn't? nothing in court has stuck because the admin treats courts like a Fox news talk show and thinks opinion can replace fact. The fact the administration wants to prevent the release of volume 2 of his report speaks volumes as well.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Doesn't work well in either the literal (military) or analogized (economic) sense. Redundancies obviously are wasteful, as are all policies which inhibit free trade. Conversely redundancies increase security and stability.

"Unsustainable" has at least two uses. One is that you reach a point and collapse from it. Another is that you reach a point and your growth rate zeroes (ie. the first time derivative is what's unsustainable). The latter is likely; the former much less so.

What I see happening broadly is that Trump's fat fingered china shop bull behaviour has motivated "crisis == opportunity" agendas. People who favour more engagement with China, or Europe, or closer integration within Europe, or revitalized globalisation/internationalisation under modified terms, or just generally have always hated the US, are shilling hard for their respective aims. The only thing they share in common is a remarkable desire to throw much of the Canada-US relationship as fast as they can. It will be a challenge to repair some of the damage; they want to make the damage unrepairable.
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I'm going to rely on what the guy with the PhD from Oxford, the former CEO of Bloomberg, the former Gov of the Banks of Canada and the England to define what 'unsustainable' means in the context that he used it in.

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Czech_pivo said:
I'm going to relay on what the guy with the PhD from Oxford, the former CEO of Bloomberg, the former Gov of the Banks of Canada and the England to define what 'unsustainable' means in the context that he used it in.
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Sure. But he didn't. Not much point making an assertion without explaining what it's supposed to mean. It leaves readers free to guess.

I have been not-an-internationalist and UN-skeptic and very pro-free-trade for decades. Sudden conversions of members of the WEF set to the first will be welcome, but I'd prefer them to be clear that there are no new we-need-to-cede-a-little-sovereignty or we-need-to-pay-lip-service-to-shitty-little-countries angles. Looking back to past rhetoric, the world does not really need "more Canada"; Canada does not need "more Europe" or "more Asia". Therefore I'd like to know what exactly is "unsustainable", unless it's just a boogeyman word to scare people into consenting to whatever. The world isn't about to devolve into little principalities, and if countries are a bit more resilient within themselves they become harder targets for the bullies. It's not even clear that much of this will matter after November, let alone even three years now. It will take longer than that for most of the big initiatives being platformed in Canada to bear fruit, assuming future parliaments respect all of the invoices when they come due. It should be possible to muddle through for a while without prematurely lamenting the unstoppable decline of the RBIO and taking precipitous actions which render the prophecy into fact.

If the program is for modest adjustments without new supra-national institutions, I'm in.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Sure. But he didn't. Not much point making an assertion without explaining what it's supposed to mean. It leaves readers free to guess.
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Apply that same logic to anything and everything that comes out of Trump's mouth. Does that work for you?
 
Czech_pivo said:
Apply that same logic to anything and everything that comes out of Trump's mouth. Does that work for you?
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Why would or should I do that?

If the criticism about Trump isn't that he's beyond normal parameters, then what's the beef? If he's beyond normal parameters, it's ludicrous to use him as the yardstick for measuring everyone else.
 
Brad Sallows said:
Why would or should I do that?

If the criticism about Trump isn't that he's beyond normal parameters, then what's the beef? If he's beyond normal parameters, it's ludicrous to use him as the yardstick for measuring everyone else.
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If you say so.
 
Czech_pivo said:
If you say so.
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Of course I do. I haven't been taking Trump seriously since 2016.

Here we are, in a world in which people are on the one hand saying "Trump is crazy and contradicts himself all the time and frequently fails to follow through", and on the other working themselves into high states of anxiety over particular pronouncements - no matter how many times their prior high states of anxiety turned out to be unnecessary.
 
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