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Trump's Economic Skills

What factually is known about the Donald's investor skill? Does he know the fast lane, large building architecture and urban infrastructure-could he get Flint Michigan's water system renewed this year if President? How would he respond to Wall Street power and influence at accomplishing national economic goals good for the people? Does he look up like an underling to Goldman Sachs? Would he appoint a Hank Paulson to throw a TARP over the banks and reach out to temporaliy nationallisze GM or would he move forward getting jiggie with business like a capitalist F.D.R.?

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-09-03/should-donald-trump-have-indexed-


The Moneytalk article math has an adjustable base multiplier that skews the result They use Trump's personal high estimate of 500 million. That kind of number or evaluation is typical where social perceptions of success have pragmatic investor consequences. Trump isn't ENRON. Using the Forbes estimate of Trump's 200 million multplied by the 40 to 1 increase of indexed funds the result in 8 billion; and Trump presently claims to be worth 10 billion although the Forbes estimate is about 4 billion. Wall Street itself may be overvalued 100% and may face a serious correction if the dollar crashes. Media math is often suspect and politically biased.

http://www.moneytalksnews.com/why-youre-probably-better-investing-than-donald-trump/


Bloomberg has a different math for Trump "The simplest version of the comparison seems to be that if Trump had taken his $40 million inheritance from his father in 1974, converted it into cash, and invested it in the S&P 500, reinvesting all dividends and spending no money along the way, he'd have about $2.3 billion or so today, depending on how you do the math. Bloomberg computes his actual net worth as $2.9 billion, so he's modestly outperformed the S&P over his career, again depending on how you do the math."

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