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US economy in a bubble, says Trump, ”I hope they pop before I become president'
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the United States economy is in a bubble he fears will burst and he does not want to deal with a financial collapse if he is elected to the White House. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTrump sounds like an idiot without a clue. He acts like a man in the early stages of dementia. I sincerely hope for all my family and friends in the U.S. that he is never elected President.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0The man';s ignorance and stupidy is breathtaking - evidenced in nearly everything he says - but to take one pertinent example - “We're in a bubble,” .... “And, frankly, if there's going to be a bubble popping, I hope they pop before I become president because I don't want to inherit all this stuff. I'd rather it be the day before rather than the day after, I will tell you that.” Well hello Donald !!! An economic collapse of the kind you're referring to would not be fixed overnight so you could come to your inauguration with a clean slate.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0What a moron - and I'm sure the world outside the US is hoping like mad there are enough alert sensible American republican voters who do not endorse this crazy man as their presidential candidate. Dimentia is a real possibility -let's hope it's rapid onset so that everyone can be quite clear about his (un)fitness for office.
Trump + Palin Baahahaha - Americas Jeremy Corbyn (unelectable)
Jan 29th, 2016 - 11:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0Democrats are “luvin it!”
Go Hillary!
I don't think the economy is in a bubble but it may be overheated in some areas. I've long thought the stock market needs a correction. The Fed needs to reign it in some more regardless of how it damages the rest of the world's economies.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Its funny how ignorant foreigners are of the USA and especially our Politics.
It does make me laugh though.
3. You especially need to read some current news. You're just embarrassing yourself.
BTW there's no such thing as a stupid self-made multi- Billionaire.
@4 But there are such things as stupid followers of a stupid self-made multi- Billionaire.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seriously the republican line up are a joke. This is the best America can come up with?
5. I think the Repub bank of candidates is very good. I am not sure why you think its a joke? They have smart diverse candidates, business people, successful governors, famous brain surgeon and a self made billionaire.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I would put them up against any other Pol from anywhere in the world.
On the Dem side you have two 70 y/o washington insiders, one who is being investigated by the FBI for influence peddling and a socialist even his own party won't endorse or support.
It sure is and interesting race.
In a month we should know who the candidates are...
@1,2,3. It might help you if you were to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump
Jan 29th, 2016 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He appears to have improved his wealth from $1.4 million 2015 US dollars in 1968 (?) to $4.5 billion 2015 US dollars now. Isn't that a 3,000% increase? Maybe there are things he knows how to do?
Starting in 1967, who would have thought an actor could have gone on to be a Governor and then a President. Two terms.
Might be best not to be so dismissive until a campaign is over. Anyway, he'll only be an American president. Wouldn't be the first time Britain has told an American president to get lost.
I think the problem with foreigners with regards to USA politics is that they lack this type of scrutiny of their own politicans. 30 days campaigning? And just how large is the country of these posters? Maybe the size of one of our largest states? Our gubnertorial elections last as long as most of your national elections, those of you who elect a national leader. I'm with yb here, I am tired of hearing the Pissing and moaning of the USA. Frankly of you don't like it, than don't read about it or visit. Most all of you have not anyway.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In case you missed it on the other thread...
Jan 29th, 2016 - 03:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I was just thinking about something and it shows how unique and great the society of the USA is;
Where else is it possible for a Presidential Candidate getting national support who's mother and father came as refugees from an Enemy State and worked as a maid and bartender!?
That's one reason we are great and no other nation on earth will ever rival the USA.
It really makes me proud.
They'll never get it.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 03:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Watched a program about Trump the other night here, probably others in the UK saw it too...
Jan 29th, 2016 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's a funny guy...infectious...
At the end of the program I thought.....Yeah they should build a wall....and make Mexico pay for it....;-)))))
We need to completely revamp our immigration. We need a point system and the State that needs that type of worker sponsors the worker and they must live in that State for a minimum amount of years.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 03:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Forcing all of these well educated foreign kids at our Universities to go home is ridiculously stupid.
We also need a good guest worker program that is not a path to residency or citizenship. As long as someone is working who cares if they're here or not?
None of these people would be eligible for any welfare or state $ until they are citizens.
If we enacted just those simple things we wouldn't have a problem with illegal immigration.
I think they'll be able to craft something as soon as we get a new Prez.
I think they'll be able to craft something as soon as we get a new Prez.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 05:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You had 8 years of “”w” and he couldn't do that.
He was too busy starting wars that have cost over a million lives.
I do agree on your immigration points though.
Hopefully Bloomberg will step up and end this useless left/right mess y'all have and run as an independent.
Trump seems to have lots of appeal to rednecks. Lots odf simple solutions that wont be simple to pull off in the ligitigous US. The Americans I was with last week were pretty damning about him, but there were a couple who liked the fact that he is going to drive a bulldozer through Washington which is seen to be at the root of US problems.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Maybe Trump listens to this guy, who many that understand the real economy do.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 05:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/08/another-fabricated-jobs-report-paul-craig-roberts-2/
Or here as a follow up Food for thought
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2016/01/08/another-fabricated-jobs-report-paul-craig-roberts-2/
Seriously the republican line up are a joke. This is the best America can come up with??????????????????????
Jan 29th, 2016 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well lets put it this way,
if Mr trump gets nominated , their will be many red faces , here and in America
then again, if Mr trump wins and becomes the next president of the United States of America,
their will be many soggy pants in Britain, let alone elsewhere on this violent out of control planet,
just my opinion.
I suggest you tune it out if it annoys you that much. However, the election process for POTUS begins this summer, I suggest you tune in then when the programming really heats up....lol. We're in reruns.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0?
Jan 29th, 2016 - 07:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have no problem with Trump becoming US President.
Mmmmmmm....I hope not too many Americans feel that way. My problem is most of the choices. The ones I'd possibly vote for don't have great sound bites, hence their polls suck.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Captain Poppy
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0being a brit, I can only offer an opinion,
I know millions hate him, and millions love him,
I suppose we will all have to wait until the nominations.
@19 Honestly, it is a bit rich you telling people not to comment on this story, posted on this site, just because it is about the U.S. You post your opinions about Argentina etc.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can't moderate this site or stop people voicing their opinions. You can just not read them if they upset you.
It's a bit of a stretch you putting words in my post that I cannot seem to find. Sometimes you push what you think you know and guess or assume. Do you know what a verbal duche is?
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I am tired of hearing the Pissing and moaning of the USA. Frankly of you don't like it, than don't read about it or visit”
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0People are going to moan and complain about the U.S., just as they complain about the U.K. and all the other countries featured here. I think it is the nature of a news site.
Trump is a revolting man who comes across as dense about a lot of subjects. It would be a real shame to have him as the President the United States. I think the majority of Americans are better than that.
What do you think. I hope not too many Americans feel that way meant, that I support Trump, or any of them? Cherry picking elaine? If you read me over the years, you are smart enough to know my position on the USA. You think that statement you cropped was referring to MP posts? Assuming elaine, assuming. Stick to your worldwide friends who have friends who know this and that.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I don't think you support Trump.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Trump is the best candidate. And he's right: US has an extremely bloated economy. If manure leak GDP falls by half.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If the US has created so many jobs in the past six years why the wages grew so little? Employment or subemployment?
Well... he has one thing in common with Bush...
Jan 29th, 2016 - 08:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0His English Sucks...
A Bubble....singular
They pop...plural...
Captain Poppy,
Jan 29th, 2016 - 09:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Frankly of you don't like it, than don't read about it or visit. Most all of you have not anyway.
I have no doubt seen more of the US than you have. Probably been to more states than YB even.
Everyone forgets how Trump made his billions on the backs of other investors.
The problem with US politics is it is either Left or right, no middle ground and you have 2 parties and no one else can compete.
Trump is a prize douche and always will be.
Yankeeboy's post #12 pretty much describes Australia's immigration system.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 09:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Thankfully we didn't need a Trump to implement it.
I don't think the US needs a Trump either.
A third world country with pourous borders bordering one of the worlds richest countries. Result, a lot of immigrants, too many immigrants for some.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 10:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A deadlocked government dictating to local states with their own laws and taxes.
External terrorist threats that they can't control.
Trump will solve all these problems - only he won't. The legal eagles will tie him in knots. But rednecks believe he can do it. It is important for the whole world who is the President of the US. Look at the mess George left, Europe is now suffering the consequences.
Can't accuse Trump of being politically correct.
Jan 29th, 2016 - 10:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I like him and hope he becomes President.
Don't think he will though and it looks like it's going to be Hilary.
What an awful prospect.
Spankingboy Wrote: “ there's no such thing as a stupid self-made multi- Billionaire.”
Jan 29th, 2016 - 11:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh, but there is, one example is called a Donald Trump.
He is good entertainment, especially when the other rep. candidates answer his insane nonsense. Pairing him with the Alaska lunatic is perfect.
BTW Four of Trump's businesses have declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
@23 Elaine
Jan 30th, 2016 - 12:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0You have strong feelings about the presidential election in the U.S. and we are aware of at least one candidate you are strongly against.
I am very curious to know your opinion on which candidate, regardless of party, you do want to become the next U.S. president. Would you share that?
Klingon I agree with your observation with the American political system. I myself consider my beliefs somewhat centrist and moderate. Sometimes conservative sometime more left leaning. However, I also think it's a stretch to think that you've seen more of the USA than me.......but maybe. Are you looking for a gold star with that statement? The next time you fly into Logan, let me know. Better yet, you are in Argentina, so am I.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0Trump and his Trumpeters make Kirchner and her Peronists look like Rhodes Scholars.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 03:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0There's many things not to like about Trump, but IMO these are mainly based on his brusque and bombastic speaking style. Policy-wise he's bang on the money about the most important issues - Mexican border control, the ever-growing threat of Muslims, and I'm sure he's the best candidate for the economy too. And he is the only candidate - and the first since Reagan - who might just, maybe, for a change do something positive for the always shoved-aside white working class, and for the silent and stoic non-protesting, non-rioting, non cop-killing white majority in general. Trust me I'd much prefer an articulate educated Virginian gentleman like Jared Taylor (Amren.com) but since that' s not going to happen then the Donald way is the only way. Hilary is poison.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0I think that the wall should be built between Colombia and Panama. Mexico and Central America are part of the USA. After all was US companies that colonized the region.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just missing abolish slavery!
#37 No one talks your trash talk in South America and your autarky world, why do you suppose that is tobi? Like your juvenile comment that Macri is the Spanish Trump. That alone tobi shows just how far removed from reality.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why is it tobi that every time I am in Argentina, you never show up as tobi? Just saying!
Colombians more likely to side with the US than Brazil.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil is incapable of being a regional leader so why would anyone prefer to follow them?
Trump - on this occasion ...... better in (the White House) than out.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 03:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hilary will cause a terrible stink all over the World.
Apart from Maggie Thatcher and the Israeli Bint please name another successful female leader of a major nation. Don't give me Merkel...not now.
Indira Gandhi
Jan 30th, 2016 - 05:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 041 Don
Jan 30th, 2016 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Totally corrupt and ultimately murdered by her own bodyguards.
Certainly female and India is a major nation but struggling with the successful bit.
Perhaps Gold Mier comes mind, but times were certainly less complicated then. I have a hard time believing Trump will make the mainstream public appeal. Strange thought how until what, a few years ago he had a liberal legacy and speaking history. It will be funny if he's a Trojan Horse.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Indira Gandhi was very successful.
Jan 30th, 2016 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The reason she was murdered by sikhs, who betrayed their solemn oath to protect her, was that she ordered the storming of the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar to counter the Punjab insurgency.
Of course she was corrupt - she was born, brought up and lived in India, no. 76 on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2015. She wouldn't have stood a chance to become premier without it.
She won the war against Pakistan in support of the independence movement (self-determination) in East Pakistan, which resulted in the creation of Bangladesh, and strongly increased India's influence in South Asia.
She reminds me a lot of Margaret Thatcher, another tough nut.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/30/business/donald-trump-unions.html
Jan 30th, 2016 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My eyes burned a little reading this rag but it seems the Unions and Dems are a bit worried that Trump has union members support.
@ 45
Jan 30th, 2016 - 10:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, Noam Scheiber who wrote this claptrash doesn't have a clue on the subject.
Of course the Service Employees International Union members will be tempted to vote for Donald Duck, as he is addressing their concern about 8-dollars-per-hour Latin Americans immigrating into the US.
One also has to consider that these union members in particular, i.e. the underpaid service workers, may not necessarily be the brightest burning candles.
I hope the next Prez makes it illegal to have a union in the Federal Gov't or at least they have to collect the dues themselves instead of having them taken out of their paychecks.
Jan 31st, 2016 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Win win.
This is typical of Trump. For him its all about Trump. He doesn't want his time as president to be messed up by any of the concerns of the American people. Should such a man be president? Of course not!
Feb 01st, 2016 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Trump represents nothing more than the end result of the “Southern Strategy” used originally by President Nixon (aka “Tricky Dicky”) and, subsequently, all of the Republican presidents to a greater or lesser extent.
Unfortunately the GOP, previously the party of Lincoln, has become the home of the Birchers and the Klan.
@48 I have to agree with you. Trump is a classic case of NPD, a liar, a bragger, a bully and revengeful. Not a person you would wish to lead the free world. His demographic of voters is mostly white, mostly male and mostly undereducated. He plays on people's fears.
Feb 01st, 2016 - 08:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0He likes to brag about his fortune but fails to mention he was born into wealth. He has had every advantage and has had many failures. He peddles a false ideal that if it were not for those immigrants and muslims, those undereducated, white males would be as rich as him.
It would a great misfortune for the world if such a man were to be President of the U.S. . The alternatives are not ideal but any of the candidates would be preferable to him.
If his support is mostly uneducated white males then you have nothing to worry about. Even without the thick and white his chances wouldn't look too good, unless there were quite a few stupid women as well.
Feb 01st, 2016 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I agree that he is unlikely to win, but if he does that's democracy and you will just have to put up with him. No need to insult people and expose your own prejudices.
@50 Englander - thanks, you saved me the trouble..!
Feb 01st, 2016 - 09:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0@48 - the KKK was founded by Democrats, and they barely exist nowadays (est 5000 members) so you're simply fear-mongering by raising ghosts of the past.
I like to think the Americans are better than to fall for his style of campaigning. He doesn't have any policies or ideas he just spouts sound-bites of fear and prejudice.
Feb 01st, 2016 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I agree that he is unlikely to win, but if he does that's democracy and you will just have to put up with him.” Thanks, Captain Obvious.
Democracy is voting for the people that will be making the decisions for you. I think the world would be a dangerous place with Trump making the decisions. That is my opinion.
Thanks, Captain Petty.
Feb 01st, 2016 - 11:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0Progressive foreigners love Odumbo.
Feb 01st, 2016 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 065% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track
Progressive foreigners hate Trump
Do the math.
'My opponents misunderestimated me.'
Feb 01st, 2016 - 06:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0George W Bush (43rd President) 2001-2009
Dont misunderestimate Trump!
55. He's got a better education than you and achieved more than you could ever dream of....
Feb 01st, 2016 - 07:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Dame Helen is going to give the redneck pillocks a lecture at the superbowl. Wasted breath if you ask me.
Feb 03rd, 2016 - 04:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Nobody in the USA is going to know what pillock means.
Feb 03rd, 2016 - 05:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bad script.
Love her tho
If one studies his statements as a whole [and not just a part]; one will rationalize that he MAY be right:
Feb 04th, 2016 - 01:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0- in a bit of an exaggerated outburst
- with a dramatized “salesman-approach”.
http://trumpdonald.org
Feb 04th, 2016 - 04:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Tap on the screen to Trump at Trump ;-)
… and Coldplay in the interval - that should depress America!
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