Posted on 03/22/2016 1:49:12 PM PDT by drewh
In a survey conducted of 2,001 registered voters by media and polling company and Fortune partner Morning Consult, 70% of those questioned said that the country has “gotten off on the wrong track.” And when asked about the issue most important to them in the upcoming election, 37% said the economy, well ahead of the next most important issue, security, which was most important for just 17% of voters.
So who do Americans think can get the economy back on the right track? Donald Trump, if their expectations for the stock market are any guide. According to the Fortune-Morning Consult poll, when asked, “under which president would the stock market do better,” more answered Donald Trump than any of the remaining candidates, including Hillary Clinton.
Not only does Donald Trump win on this question by a healthy margin, a deeper look into the numbers shows the diversity of his support.
As you can see, while Clinton has the confidence of Democrats and voters with a postgraduate degree, Trump commands respectable support from both of these groups. Trump is campaigning on the promise that he can bring the same success to the U.S. economy that he did to his business empire, and this poll shows that this message is appealing to a wide cross-section of Americans.
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Most Americans hardly know that the “market” is anything other than the DJIA.
It will sour for globalists. It will rise for people wise enough to invest in America.
I don’t.
I still support Trump, but my sense is that Wall Street will stamp its feet, hold its breath and turn blue if the Cheap Labor Express is derailed.
All good in the long run.
I don’t care about the stock market. I care about the economy that the average American has been struggling under for the last 8 years. And that’s where Trump will shine.
But my sense is that Wall Street will stamp its feet, hold its breath and turn blue if the Cheap Labor Express is derailed.
Since Trump started his back to back wins in the primaries, the markets had erased the red re markets as of this week.
I have no idea what today’s terrorist action will do. Often that action drives money to America and our markets.
Which ,by the way,will also be good in the long run
“It will sour for globalists. It will rise for people wise enough to invest in America.”
A lot more truth than fiction in your comment. I expect Trump to go after GM and Disney right away. F’em!
I suspect that the powers that be will spend their every waking moment of a Trump administration attempting to sow as much doubt, discord, and economic mischief as they can get away with.
All things considered...
If it’s this important to make sure Trump isn’t elected president...
...then it’s vitally important the U. S. doesn’t thrive under him!
This nation will be savaged for four years to prove once and for all Trump’s ideas are the cause of it all.
Amen - it’s him or it’s Hillary
Americans must choose because this is the big one.
Net Worth of Ten Billion Dollars sort of indicates that he understands the basics of how the economy and international trade works. A much more meaningful resume point than being a Chi-Town "Community Organizer" who made his cash through shakedowns, graft and kickbacks, or first bitch of a small crooked southern state who made a "killing" in cattle futures, while amassing a real body count.
I don’t know. Not because Trump will have bad economic policies, rather, the powers that be will fight him on taxes, and particularly monetary policy
If you think the GOPe is bad - just wait to see what happens if Trump confronts our monetary mandarins.
I care that Trump will, I expect, start off with “we’re no longer going to spend more than revenue supports”, slash spending (being the chief administrator, that’s his prerogative), and fight any move by Congress to force him to carry out deficit spending. If we don’t get the hemorrhaging stopped ASAP, no other issue is going to matter - kinda hard to have a productive dialog about abortion or gun control when EBT-deprived looters have stolen everything out of every brick-and-mortar store and are proceeding to burn down anything they can’t take, spreading out of their enclaves and into the ‘burbs.
I dunno. Most every President takes a recession, and often they like to get it over with early in their terms so things are rebounding and “looking good”, comparatively speaking, when the next election comes around.
Many of Trump’s stated tax policies are stimulative; the question is where (and whether ) the cuts will come on the spending side.
Remember, Obama has expanded the Federal government by at least 25%, plus larded a bunch of mandates on business and the states. The states haven’t been standing still either—show me the ones who have cut back the size of their government.
Shrinking the number of overcompensated government employees—even if it’s possible—will cause all kinds of economic dislocations in the short term.
I think the stock market would soar - to all time highs no less.
But not before the excesses and dislocations have been allowed to run their course. Mighty painful and many casualties along the way, but there’s no other way.
But a renewed America will rise from the ashes stronger and radiating with justified optimism not seen since Ronald Reagan.
Then Megyn Kelly will get on the air and try to convince everyone she was in The Donald’s corner all along...
Good point. The market "soared" under Obama but the average guy's lot didn't.
I actually expect the opposite, for a short time, if he does what he’s promised to do. There needs to be a massive correction, combined with the $$$ printing press being shut down, and the cheap labor eliminated. It could be a wild ride, if he does what he claims he’s going to do.
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