{"id":40,"date":"2019-08-10T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sjc.capital\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2019-08-10T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T10:34:10","slug":"duke-the-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sjc.capital\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/08\/10\/duke-the-donald\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke & The Donald."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Originally Published Dec. 15, 2016 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Was\n he sensitive, was he hell? Did he ride to the rescue…..more times \nthan you’ve had hot dinners. And boy could he walk, talk & shoot \nstraight. If he starred in a modern political feature his usual \n“can-do”character may have got into the following minor scraps and \nrighting of wrongs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiscal Reform:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simplifying and reducing tax rates, encouraging: investment at home, employment and, rewards for success in business and career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fiscal Easing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reminiscent of Reaganomics unmet spending, but this time from Debt \nlevels not seen since the end of WWII. With demand from global pension \nplans to meet cash requirements of the expanding number of retirees, \nallowing easy adoption of increased issuance, until expanding US growth \nrates permits increased tax recovery and Debt pay-down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructure & Urban Regeneration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not talking bridges to nowhere as in the Japanese example, for \nfertility rates in the US are still reasonable and the legal immigration\n policy liberal. But improving productivity and bringing previously \ncriminal elements into legal activities boosting growth and tax \ncollection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reduced Regulation:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Relaxation of the burden on small business to enter markets and \ncomplete against global market leaders, bringing back the local feel. \nAnd a return of Caveat Emptor improving the self-reliance and \ndiminishing the hollering in recent generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realigned Foreign Policy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Requiring Allied nations to meet defence spending requirements that \nmay reduce the need for US foreign bases that have prevented any recent \nmajor European wars. Not undermining solid allies with a shared cultural\n outlook, together with a healthy scepticism of vocal cultural \nopponents, thereby providing certainty of deterrent. Even the Duke would\n never call US citizens of Mexican heritage, rapist, murderers and drug \ndealers and would have found it inconceivable to want to eliminate the \nChicano vote. Unless the comments were referring to ILLEGAL immigrants \nwhilst still assuming some of them are good people. Profiling of LEGAL \nentrants who’s cultures are sympathetic to extremist\/criminal \nactivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renegotiated Trade Agreements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst most country trading surpluses are caused by large savings and\n productivity gains they are also usually accompanied by a certain \namount of xenophobia. Restriction of free trade can be inflationary but \nmay also bring in the huge amount of people not counted as looking for \nwork and an incentive to invest in robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the fantastic cinematography that usually accompanies Duke’s \nfeatures? This is being provided by the beautiful and breathtaking \ncapital markets reaction of higher expected growth and a decent yield on\n fixed income savings of the more conservative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But what of the plot, of course that would depend on the director of the feature?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Directed by Michael Moore we’ll just get a remake of the Alamo, when \nthe Central Bank returns to its misguided ways of belated and \nexaggerated action to stifle this hero’s efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But with Quentin Tarantino we’ll get his reboot of the Searchers with\n the search, discovery but this time, successful reuniting of America \nwith it’s Greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally Published Dec. 15, 2016 Was he sensitive, was he hell? Did he ride to the rescue…..more times than you’ve had hot dinners. And boy could he walk, talk & shoot straight. If he starred in a modern political feature his usual “can-do”character may have got into the following minor scraps and righting of wrongs. … <\/p>\n

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