;)

(Just trolling)

There was no context for your questions

(Please clap)

There was. You shockingly told me you voted 3rd party

I voted for McMullin because he had some history of public service and at least qualified for a security clearance

And so I am trying to judge how wasted your vote was

I know what that takes. I dislike Hillary and Trump's group of advisors turned me off on him

and that has gotten worse

It wasn't a waste, it was my vote

Trump is great my B

@TheTrickster go away

So

Lol

Again I return to

How does the greatest philosopher of our time disagree with you?

Please explain

You're the econ guru around here as far as I can tell

Explain how you see him as so great but disagree

Economic Guru lol

I learned a lot from Taleb, I would assume he knows more than me on things in the economic domain

I understand his position on Trump. I had a different priority

I'm asking you to explain his position

Dad I'm just trying to learn

On Trump, basically he wasn't flustered by the 'noise' as he called it, and just focused on the populism, Trump's animosity to 'business as usual' technocrats, etc

Policy wise though

He assumed correctly the Trump campaign was a cynical attempt to buy votes and that the actual policies would be much more moderate, which was true in many ways

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Foreign policy he was hoping for much of that pull-out strategy, yet to be seen

I knew that was not going to happen based on his advisors

McMullin wasn't any better there, but at least he wouldn't be a foreign operative, something I suspected about Clinton and Trump

This reads like a Tom Clancy novel

Taleb misjudged Trump on one of the most important tail risks he cares about, the environment

I dont see how corporate and upper class tax cuts de leverage institutions large enough to need social bail outs (his whole point in antifragile, black swan and his most recent book)

He didnt misjudge trump, he ignored that tail risk

I can't quite parse that

Additionally please explain how pro corporate actions in the part of the FTC, just to name one trump stacked agency, lead to derisked institutions. The support of hegemony and monopoly seems counter to everything taleb said

Trump has only one real legislative achievement and has done nothing economically but cut taxes and deregulate corporations

Trump hasn't done anything on that front, things are worse and probably getter worser fasterer

Getter worser

Okay we are done here :)