Originally posted by snowdragon
If Trump sticks to his guns on making deals I'd wager that perhaps he could help to create an economic enviroment to boost private sector jobs.
If he sticks to his guns on immigration, he'll cause a regional economic implosion, though.
What do people think happens when you remove 10 million people? Quick answer, you have massive amounts of companies shut down, demand drops, etc.. The Southwest becomes an economic pit for decades.
His deal-making ability could be helpful, but that's just one aspect of his platform, and his actual tax proposal mentioned isn't one that'd help either.
And as a businessman, he's ok, but If he had taken his inherited money and invested it in a mutual fund that tracked the S&P 500, he'd be at about the same wealth level to slightly richer. If he put it in a more diverse high-performing portfolio (but still not getting involved in actual managing the investments more specifically), he'd be a few times richer.
Warren Buffet, interestingly, did start with about the same amount of money at about the same time, and via choosing and managing his investments, he's over an order of magnitude richer.
And of course, managing investments and managing an economy is, itself, pretty different, experience in one doesn't mean one will be great at the other.
Bernie could be good as well though if he is able to focus on small business and spank some of the babied large corporations.
His minimum wage would be pretty interesting. I don't think we'd necessarily see much job *growth* but we would likely see the same jobs providing higher quality of life, which is at least as important if not more-so.