This is a really important interview to grasp the scope of the America-First economic challenge in front of Donald Trump and specifically U.S. workers.  Unfortunately, what follows below is the best version of the interview we can find and it has edits, significant edits by CNN, to the initial portion of the interview as it originally aired.
For those unfamiliar with how structured these types of interviews are, there are a few key aspects worth noting in advance of watching the video:

♦ CEO Mark Fields is not alone in this interview.  Off camera there are key corporate executive advisers, PR, Marketing, HR, Risk Mgmt., etc. positioned to give immediate feedback toward any sound bites that can have an adverse impact on the corporate objectives.  There’s a few times when you can see Fields taking cues from those voices.
♦ The CEO corporate culture (starts in MBA school) teaches executives how to use code words and phrases to avoid pitfalls, and unless you are skilled -or familiar- in detecting the nuance, much of the significant verbiage can be missed.  Words and phrases matter.
There’s a big difference between a major corporate CEO saying “investment in North America“, and “investment in America“.  The former references international trade agreements such as NAFTA which apply to Mexico the U.S. and Canada, the latter is directed to the United States.  Pay close attention and you’ll note the importance.
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“America Soaring.” Running in Pennsylvania. Two week ad buy $1.3 million – Via Rebuilding America Now (Super PAC)

“Electronic Soup Cards”

That term, “electronic soup cards“, is simply brilliant.  It is powerfully brilliant because it is entirely correct.
As a person who searches for simple word assemblies to covey significant issues, I must admit that concise terminology is the best turn of words I’ve heard in years.

Factually, if the number of American people on EBT or SNAP welfare benefits had to line up for soup and meals (instead of just get money on an electronic card for use anywhere), there would be massive lines, miles-long lines, all day and all night in hundreds of thousands of soup kitchens nation-wide.   Such visibility would make the soup lines of the great depression seem insignificant by comparison.
The EBT and SNAP cards are exactly that, “Electronic Soup Cards”.
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It was noted yesterday that Donald Trump mentioned “the false economy”. Many people do not have a solid frame of reference for what this three-decades old term is referring to.

US has ‘false economy’ & artificial stock market – Trump https://t.co/hBFIdPWwyC

— Jackie (@risetoflyy) September 6, 2016

For those unfamiliar with the terminology, here’s a reminder from an earlier outline just before the GOP convention, when Donald Trump quietly made a request for a specific platform position.  As you read or revisit, remind yourself that Robert Mercer is now supporting Donald Trump… “economic patriotism“, stunning and actually refreshing:
You can put this huge and under-reported Trump platform position in the AFFIRMED PREDICTION column. (more…)

Last night, speaking in West Bend Wisconsin, candidate Donald Trump gave an epic speech taking head-on all adverse interests.

[…]  I am running to listen to your voice, to hear your cries for help. The quiet voices in our society, not the loudest demonstrators, need to have their demands heard…

Here’s the video and transcript:

“It’s so great to be here tonight. I am honored to also be joined this evening by Governor Scott Walker, Chairman Reince Priebus, and Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

We are at a decisive moment in this election. (more…)

This is a modified and updated repost from an early January ’16 outline which collected data from all of the various Donald Trump interviews, position papers, and historical outlines. Candidate Trump has been speaking about broad U.S. economic issues for decades. Trump approaches the challenges by focusing on “Main Street”, not Wall Street.

For the sake of brevity, we’re going to accept that most readers here are familiar with who funds and directs Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, John McCain, Mitch McConnell, and in larger more consequential measures –  the DC UniParty legislative team in charge of U.S. Policy, ie. Wall street.

During the January 2016 South Carolina debate, and in response to Trump pointing out a necessary shift in trade position (a shift to put American interests first – a shift to stop the dependency on cheap import goods – a shift to use China’s dependency on access to our market to OUR advantage), Jeb Bush came back with an example of Boeing manufacturing.

Donald Trump, responded to Jeb’s Boeing example, and pointed out China is forcing Boeing to open a manufacturing plant in China. As would be typical from a candidate who is unfamiliar and poorly briefed on the issue, Jeb Bush looked back incredulously and said:

“C’mon man”…

There we saw it.

Right there was the disconnect. (more…)

During a February Republican debate the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Stassel challenged Donald Trump on the projected revenue from his proposed tax plan.

In essence Stassel claimed some economists doubted the growth factor Mr. Trump projects in his tax proposal.

In a sixty second response time, it was factually impossible for Donald Trump to explain something more complex than a sound bite allows.  However, how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Specifically, one of the larger hurdles Trump faces is a need to re-educate an entire generation on a fundamentally new vision of the U.S. economy.  A return to a Pro-Main Street, goods-based, manufacturing, technology, innovation and industry driven economic model.

Interestingly, many people have referenced a 1991 (25 years old) video of Donald Trump testifying before congress – as evidence of him being tuned in to political consequences of economic activity. The entire video is well worth watching because it gives you insight into a very specific moment in time as they discuss the ‘Reagan era’ 1986 tax reform act.

For the sake of this discussion post I would like to draw your attention to a very specific exchange between Donald Trump and Representative Helen Delich Bently (R-MD). (more…)

Before reading this discussion outline ask yourself: If the U.K. and Germany are the dominant two economic powerhouses within the EU, and the UK gives the EU system $500 million per week to share with the rest of the EU member nations (wealth spreading),…. what happens when the UK deposits stop, the member nations dependency remains, and Germany is the only powerhouse left trying maintain the system?
Standard and Poors (S&P) has downgraded the United Kingdom bond rating from AAA to AA as a punitive punishment for the Brexit vote.

NEW YORK, June 27 (Reuters) – Longer-dated U.S. Treasury yields fell to session lows on Monday after Standard & Poor’s lowered United Kingdom’s credit rating by two notches following its vote to depart from the European Union last Thursday. (link)

Punitive Punishment?  That’s exactly what this is.  This is a purely a political move by global bankers, institutional financial and political ideologues, within the financial markets.  The global cabal of elite financial interests are pissed; the peasants are revolting.
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This is a modified and updated repost from an early January ’16 outline which collected data from all of the various Donald Trump interviews, position papers, and historical outlines. Candidate Trump has been speaking about broad U.S. economic issues for decades. Trump approaches the challenges by focusing on “Main Street”, not Wall Street.
For the sake of brevity, I’m going to accept that most readers here are familiar with who funds and directs Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, Jeb Bush, and in larger more consequential measures, the DC UniParty legislative team in charge of U.S. Policy, ie. Wall street.
During the January 2016 South Carolina debate, and in response to Trump pointing out a necessary shift in trade position (a shift to put American interests first – a shift to stop the dependency on cheap import goods – a shift to use China’s dependency on access to our market to OUR advantage), Jeb Bush came back with an example of Boeing manufacturing.

Donald Trump, responded to Jeb’s Boeing example, and pointed out China is forcing Boeing to open a manufacturing plant in China. As would be typical from a candidate who is unfamiliar and poorly briefed on the issue, Jeb Bush looked back incredulously and said:

“C’mon man”…

There we saw it.
Right there was the disconnect.
However, almost everyone missed it.
There, in that exact moment, was the spotlight upon all that is wrong with a professional political class; globalists dependent on Wall Street best interest for their talking points.
Donald Trump was 100% correct.
But the issue is bigger.
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Sean Penn unavailable for comment on the socialist utopia he promoted to bring forth into the U.S.

CUMANÁ, Venezuela — With delivery trucks under constant attack, the nation’s food is now transported under armed guard. Soldiers stand watch over bakeries. The police fire rubber bullets at desperate mobs storming grocery stores, pharmacies and butcher shops. A 4-year-old girl was shot to death as street gangs fought over food.  Venezuela is convulsing from hunger.

Hundreds of people here in the city of Cumaná, home to one of the region’s independence heroes, marched on a supermarket in recent days, screaming for food. They forced open a large metal gate and poured inside. They snatched water, flour, cornmeal, salt, sugar, potatoes, anything they could find, leaving behind only broken freezers and overturned shelves. (more…)