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"The Tao of Steve" Trump announces economic policy team

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PlayALLtheGames

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http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/05/trump-unveils-economic-policy-team-includes-john-paulson.html

13 white guys, 5 named Steve.

Looks like 1 actual economist.

Paulson is the founder of investment firm Paulson and Co., and made billions betting against subprime mortgages in 2007 leading up to the financial crisis.

Roth is the billionaire head of Vornado Realty.

Hamm is a billionaire oilman and CEO of Continental Resources.

Lorber is the CEO of tobacco and real estate company Vector Group.

Mnuchin is Trump's national finance chairman, and the chairman and CEO of hedge fund Dune Capital Management.

Barrack served in the Reagan administration as deputy undersecretary of interior, and is founder and chairman of Colony Capital.

Calk is the chairman and CEO of The Federal Savings Bank.

Beal is the billionaire founder and chairman of Beal Bank and Beal Bank USA.

Feinberg is the billionaire co-founder and CEO of Cerberus Capital Management.

Malpass is a former Bear Stearns chief economist who has had high-ranking roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.

Navarro is an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Moore is a former member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board and a founder of the Club for Growth.

DiMicco is former CEO of steel company Nucor.
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Bubba_Sparks

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Wait a second! Hasn't his entire platform been anti-establishment? Like the whole appeal was him not selling out to Wall Street, big banks and capitalists.
 
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iammeiam

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For as much as he likes to brag about how little money he gets from hedge funds compared to Hillary, his economic policy team is lousy with hedge fund managers. Not even getting paid for letting them set policy! Clinton apparently cutting much better deals for hedge fund influence! Sad!
 
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie

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Bubba_Sparks said:
Wait a second! Hasn't his entire platform been anti-establishment? Like the whole appeal was him not selling out to Wall Street, big banks and capitalists.
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the-pi-guy

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Steve Roth, Harold Hamm, Howard Lorber, Steven Mnuchin, Tom Barrack, Stephen M. Calk, Andy Beal, Steve Feinberg, David Malpass, Peter Navarro, Stephen Moore and Dan DiMicco.
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Woah, all these Steve/Steven/Stephen's.

Looks like Mr. Trump has big money on his side. What happened to being anti-establishment?
 
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Palette Swap

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Lorber is the CEO of tobacco and real estate company Vector Group.
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It's hard not to imagine this guy as a cartoon villain. Just needs oil on top of it.

Bubba_Sparks said:
Wait a second! Hasn't his entire platform been anti-establishment? Like the whole appeal was him not selling out to Wall Street, big banks and capitalists.
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Anyone who ever believed that is a fucking idiot.
 
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SexyFish

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But how will the alt-right react to the amount of Jewish people?

Edit: Also Hamm being Romney's energy adviser when he was an oil man. Fucking lol.
 
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runningjoke

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Bubba_Sparks said:
Wait a second! Hasn't his entire platform been anti-establishment? Like the whole appeal was him not selling out to Wall Street, big banks and capitalists.
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Trump didn't take money from wall street so he didn't sell out. He's cutting out the middle man and letting wall street write his policy
 
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Karkador said:
It's almost as if this entire presidential bid is about making family and a bunch of business cronies richer and all the more established.
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But its not those crooked politicians! Out with big government, in with big investment firms! I'm sure they will create policies that protect middle class equity and protect our economy from recession...
 
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Hazmat

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He can't be bought by big business and the banks, so he's just giving it to them for free. Transparency!
 
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rjinaz

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"He's outside of the establishment and not a slave to the money and corporation in politics!"

It's funny that we were telling people that all Trump is doing is cutting out the middlemen and putting the money at the very top, but, they wouldn't listen.
 
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Bubba_Sparks

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McDougles said:
Shh, the pivot!
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;)

Karkador said:
It's almost as if this entire presidential bid is about making family and a bunch of business cronies richer and all the more established.
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Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
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Palette Swap said:
Anyone who ever believed that is a fucking idiot.
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Well some 14 MILLION! Republicans voted him their presidential candidate during the Republican primaries so...

His whole appeal has been his lone wolf anti-establishment image. I don't know how they are going to spin appointing these guys as anti-establishment or as helping the disenfranchised white workers. One of those guys made money speculating tha millions of Americans were going to default on their mortgages!
 
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Bubba_Sparks said:
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Well some 14 MILLION! Republicans voted him their presidential candidate during the Republican primaries so... His whole appeal has been his lone wolf anti-establishment image. I don't know how they are going to spin appointing these guys as anti-establishment or as helping the disenfranchised white workers. I mean one of those guys made money speculating that millions of Americans were going to default on their loans.
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There are a lot of idiots in this country
 
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Netherscourge

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Banks, Investment Firms, Billionaires and CEOs.

...but he's Anti Wall Street.?

He's doing the exact thing he accuses Hillary of doing.
 
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Ithil

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Netherscourge said:
Banks, Investment Firms, Billionaires and CEOs.

...but he's Anti Wall Street.?

He's doing the exact thing he accuses Hillary of doing.
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That is basically their entire MO. Claim the opposition is the one doing all you are actually doing, no matter how absurd.
 
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Lmao

This is the list of people who are supposed to restore glory to the American middle class? Trump supporters have got to be as dumb as a bag of rocks, on top of the whole bigotry thing.
 
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Urkel could have redeemed this list.
 
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