America

Earlier we reported that according to Goldman, virtually all of its investing clients are "anxious" and/or unsettled" due to rising confusion over Trump policies. As Goldman explained, "'Unsettled' is our best description of fund managers’ mindset as the new administration takes office. During an extensive series of client meetings in the US, Europe and Asia, it became apparent that investors are confused about how to best position portfolios under a Trump presidency... Policy uncertainty was a topic of concern raised in every client meeting.

Submitted by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com,

America is in trouble because Americans got lazy. Not so much physically but morally. They began to care more about some passing thing than about the things that truly matter; the things that made America unlike other places.

Better than other places.

While President Trump chose not to attend the elite extravaganza in Davos last week, choosing instead to lambast the great-est and good-est of the world's executives in their crony capitalist safe space, the cognitively dissonant CEOs reassured each other by saying 'ignore the tweets', confident that "if [Trump] knows the facts, he’ll respond according to the facts." It depends whose 'facts' those are, of course.

Submitted by Chris Hamilton via Econimica blog,

Via The Daily Bell

 

We need an alternative to Trump's nationalism. It isn't the status quo. The answer to neoliberalism’s Waterloo cannot be the retreat to a barricaded nation-state and the pitting of ‘our’ people against ‘others’ fenced off by tall walls. - UK Guardian

The Guardian has suggested that progressive internationalism should be the antidote to populism around the world. It says that one cannot fight Trump’s supposed populism without suggesting and promoting an alternative.