Thinking that Individual-1 is some kind of stable genius that sees reality 12 moves ahead of everyone else falls into the wishful thinking category. If that were the case, he wouldn't have a revolving-door of senior staff all professing that the guy is a ****ing moron.
the financial houses are prolly being told to freeze the actions of people who’ve bought stock on margin.Thinking that Individual-1 is some kind of stable genius that sees reality 12 moves ahead of everyone else falls into the wishful thinking category. If that were the case, he wouldn't have a revolving-door of senior staff all professing that the guy is a ****ing moron.
As another piece of that articles says, "Normally, US presidents stand at the end of a long chain of people preparing them to make decisions. Presidents get scenarios, consequences, precedents, and so even though they often make bad decisions, we seldom see them make disorienting, head-scratchingly weird decisions. On a football pitch, we might see a wing make a hopeless cross into traffic. That's a bad decision. But we never see a wing, say, pick the ball up off the field and shower it with glitter. That's a weird decision. It's not how anyone does football.
Good process limits a president to actions that are possible and plausibly legal, with at least guesses on consequences, plans to carry them out and a gut check that we're not all throwing glitter on a football. Which brings us to this announcement from the US Treasury Department:
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Thinking that Individual-1 is some kind of stable genius that sees reality 12 moves ahead of everyone else falls into the wishful thinking category. If that were the case, he wouldn't have a revolving-door of senior staff all professing that the guy is a ****ing moron.
As another piece of that articles says, "Normally, US presidents stand at the end of a long chain of people preparing them to make decisions. Presidents get scenarios, consequences, precedents, and so even though they often make bad decisions, we seldom see them make disorienting, head-scratchingly weird decisions. On a football pitch, we might see a wing make a hopeless cross into traffic. That's a bad decision. But we never see a wing, say, pick the ball up off the field and shower it with glitter. That's a weird decision. It's not how anyone does football.
Good process limits a president to actions that are possible and plausibly legal, with at least guesses on consequences, plans to carry them out and a gut check that we're not all throwing glitter on a football. Which brings us to this announcement from the US Treasury Department:
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