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emailking
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« on: April 24, 2017, 07:28:59 AM »
« edited: April 24, 2017, 09:11:52 AM by emailking »

The business cycle very rarely goes more than a decade without a recession. I say rarely because I haven't looked at recessions prior to 1920. But here; 1920, 1929, 1937, 1945, 1948, 1958, 1960, 1969, 1973, 1979, 1982, 1990, 2000, 2008, (?).

You'll notice that our last recession ended in 2010. It's highly unlikely that President Trump will not weather a recession by that period. Possible, but very unlikely.

I think it depends whether the length of growth increases the chance of a recession. Otherwise, this might be faulty logic, akin to assuming that a coin coming up heads many times in a row increases the chance that it will come up tails soon, when it doesn't.

There may be correlations between the chance of recession and the length of growth, but do we really know enough about what causes recessions to assume one is very likely in the next few years, beyond simply noticing the duration since the last recession?
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2017, 07:23:37 AM »

At the very least, I am convinced he will be a very formidable candidate in 2020 and is by far the favorite to win.

By far...??
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2017, 02:48:51 PM »

At the very least, I am convinced he will be a very formidable candidate in 2020 and is by far the favorite to win.

By far...??

Yes. At this point and, barring some disaster or a major political shift, I would place Trump's odds at 2:1 that he will win in 2020.

I'm not sure that's by far. By that metric Clinton was by far the favorite to win as her lowest quantitative odds on election day were 70%.


At the very least, I am convinced he will be a very formidable candidate in 2020 and is by far the favorite to win.

By far...??

He is the favorite because the Democrats have plenty of potential candidates candidates for President. So if president Trump has a 40% chance of  winning re-election (and that may be generous on his part) , the Democrats may have four potential nominees but nobody with more than a 15% chance of being nominated.  With that model, Trump is up 40-15 on every possible Democrat even if he has a 60% chance of losing the election.

But the point of having a primary is to minimize vote splitting. I assumed he was referring to general.
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