Originally posted by: CMR
I'm going to take a wait and see attitude to see how this plays out. Trump has been right about things before, and we've come a long way in four years. Remember when Obama told him it would take a magic wand to fix the economy? Regardless of how you feel about Trump, I think the US is doing well, and he wasn't elected to be president of the world. And what exactly is the Pew results showing? That other countries don't like it when we're doing well?
If the economy was doing well then the fed wouldn't have lowered interest rates. The economy has been slowing down and they are trying to juice it up with lower interest rates so it doesn't completly fall apart before elections.
I think I read that they had the largest number of stock buy backs last year. That generally means that companys are buying back their stock to make their earnings look higher than they actually were. If company's are doing well and slowly growing as expected they shouldn't have to manipulate their stock price.
I'm not really familiar with the manufacturing under Trump. I'd have to look into that. I do know that under Trump, more jobs are being off shored than before.
The U.S. like a business maintains its power through its relationships with other countrys. Some of the more obvious ways we need other people to enforce our power: trade embargos, sanctions, intelligence gathering, foreign military bases, extradition, supply chaiins, imports, borrowing money.
I think the foreign country's are mad because they cannot anticipate what we are going to do. For example is the United States going to go start a war with Venezuela and Iran for no reason? Why did the U.S. move the capital of Israel when that is going to incite violence? And if I were the leader of a foreign country, I would be most angry that the u.s. president's trade war is slowly pushing the world to a global recession.