On Sunday we asked Europeans the following as it relates to Donald Trump: “Idiot, Clown, or Hero?”
It’s not that those are the only three ways to describe the GOP frontrunner (we're sure we could come up with any number of other colorful adjectives both flattering and not), but they do a decent job of summarizing the three ways a Trump presidency could turn out.
Bernie Sanders has won the Democratic caucuses in Maine by a double digit margin. The Vermont senator claimed his eighth Democratic nomination victory and needs to beat Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary on Tuesday to stand a chance of winning the nomination. Should the Jewish, anti-establishment, holistic man from a humble background, whom the media desperately tries to ignore, win on Tuesday, then according to recent predictions, America and the world would #FeelTheBern and all will become one.
Few issues spilt America as conclusively as the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
In July 2015, 50% of Americans said it is important to control gun ownership, and 47% said it is more important to protect the right of Americans to own guns (Pew).
Source: BofAML
Yesterday, when reading the latest note by JPM's "Gandalf" head quant Marko Kolanovic, we noted something strange: for the first time we observed a JPM quant not only commenting on such sensitive topics as social fairness, but daring to challenge the oligarch orthodoxy implying that Buffett is wrong that "the babies being born in America today are the luckiest crop in history."
This is what he said:
It was just seven weeks ago when we said the following about Donald Trump and Europe’s increasingly intractable migrant crisis: “Europe’s worsening refugee crisis is in many ways the best thing that could have happened to Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign.”