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Trumponomics

It has been six months since US President Donald Trump took office.

Amid a slow and disorderly White House transition - including a string of high profile departures - and an ongoing investigation into his Russia ties, Trump is trying to divert the world's attention onto the US economy.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit the 22,000 mark for the first time in its 121-year history. Stocks headed higher even as Wall Street lost confidence that Trump's election proposals like tax cuts and infrastructure spending will be pushed through Congress.

There's expectations of a loosening of Wall Street rules put in place after the financial crisis, which has given a boost to financial stocks like Goldman Sachs. The second quarter earnings season has also been largely better than expected.

The US Commerce Department estimates the economy grew at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the April-June period.

But Trump's tax cuts are months behind schedule. The failure of healthcare reform raises questions about his ability to get a budget passed. And there's also a great deal of uncertainty about his trade policies.

So what's the state of US economy and what's Trump's got to do with it?

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It appears to be in a big tech bubble, just like George W Bush inherited when he came into office. Bush was smart enough not to take credit for it. I've read an article that 10% of the market is responsible for 40% of the gains, and that 10% of the market is mostly the big brand-name tech companies. FB, AMZN, GOOG, etc. with completely disproportionate market capitalizations.

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The U.S. (and global) economy is doing well despite Trump, not because of him.
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Thalo wrote: The U.S. (and global) economy is doing well despite Trump, not because of him.
In a lot of cases it is because of him. He mentions a company and the shares fly.

On a side note. Trudeau and Trump have a lot in common actually. Both have done absolutely NOTHING since entering office!
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That's not entirely true. Trump has tweeted a lot while Trudeau has been truly busy, getting his picture taken at every opportunity.
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I know they prefer no political posts there, but can I just say that all political leaders are terrible?
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Thalo wrote: I know they prefer no political posts there, but can I just say that all political leaders are terrible?
True! But to be more precise, all governments are terrible because they are corrupt and inefficient!

Potential good Trump things for the market Smiling Face With Sunglasses: deregulation, less taxes, cut government spending

Potential bad Trump things for the market :facepalm: : restrict/decrease trade and movement of capital
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How is deregulation good for the market? The market has shown on many occasions that it is more than ready to drive itself off a cliff.
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Frank2029 wrote: In a lot of cases it is because of him. He mentions a company and the shares fly.

On a side note. Trudeau and Trump have a lot in common actually. Both have done absolutely NOTHING since entering office!
Not really. He's riding high off of the effort of the previous president. But Trump is the type of guy that will take credit for things he has nothing to do with. Trump has done a lot of nothing.
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Is the US Regional Indicator Symbol Letters Us recovery all down to Trumponomics?
When US President Donald Trump took office one year ago, he promised that economic protection and his "America first" approach would lead to great prosperity and strength.

He also vowed to change course on a number of international policies and agreements. That prompted warnings he might boost the US economy in the short term, but trigger a global depression.

Since then, there's been a number of positive economic data on the domestic front. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has raced past the 26,000 mark for the first time in history.

So how much credit can Trump take for some of the gains seen on the domestic front?

James Knightley, the chief international economist with ING Bank, says he [Trump] "can't really claim all that much. There was a huge amount of domestic momentum that really left retail sales, industrial production and consumer demand in general really, really quite strong."

"But also another thing he [Trump] can't claim, "is the strength of the global upturn. What has really caught economists and strategists by surprise is the strength in external demands - the strength of Europe, the recovery in Asia. This has come far quicker and far more aggressively than anyone had been expecting, so that in itself has also boosted the US because stronger export markets for US products have really boosted overall economic demand. And the dollar softness has made the US more competitive," says Knightley.
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This rally is definitely from the tax plan, not even a shut down could dent it. He's halving the corporate tax rate, that's massive. Not sure about the long term sustainability of his tax plan but markets are LOVING it! 21% last year and 7.54% YTD...Monetary policy is tightening as well (I suspect loose monetary policy pumped up stocks from the 2008 crisis - wish I was participating then...) But this new rally is a pure fiscal policy move.
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Hobotrader wrote: This rally is definitely from the tax plan, not even a shut down could dent it. He's halving the corporate tax rate, that's massive. Not sure about the long term sustainability of his tax plan but markets are LOVING it! 21% last year and 7.54% YTD...Monetary policy is tightening as well (I suspect loose monetary policy pumped up stocks from the 2008 crisis - wish I was participating then...) But this new rally is a pure fiscal policy move.
But at some point, the euphoria is going to have to wear off and higher tax rates calculated as the Trump 'tax cuts' (its questionable if they're even tax cuts, given that effective tax rates were significantly lower than quoted) are temporary at best.

Smells like a plain old unrealistic dot-com bubble to me, just like the late 1990s that won't end well. Especially with no-earnings .com's such as Amazon, Netflix, Tesla going up every day independent of their earnings.
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burnt69 wrote: But at some point, the euphoria is going to have to wear off and higher tax rates calculated as the Trump 'tax cuts' (its questionable if they're even tax cuts, given that effective tax rates were significantly lower than quoted) are temporary at best.

Smells like a plain old unrealistic dot-com bubble to me, just like the late 1990s that won't end well. Especially with no-earnings .com's such as Amazon, Netflix, Tesla going up every day independent of their earnings.
We'll never know...best we can do is just keep taking returns and limiting losses through diversification/rebalancing =/. Crashes are inevitable and occur with frequent regularity.
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I don't blame Trump for delay in tax reform, failures in healthcare reform, and so on, because his own party is fighting him at every step of the way. He's not getting what he wanted, but what he can slowly negotiate out of the GOP.
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zinger9 wrote: I don't blame Trump for delay in tax reform, failures in healthcare reform, and so on, because his own party is fighting him at every step of the way. He's not getting what he wanted, but what he can slowly negotiate out of the GOP.
Delay? It's only the first year. Got 3 more to go.
A true negotiator doesn't get everything but he gets enough.

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