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发帖数: 2053 | 1 看点主要在群众评论中。。。
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America is great now, readers tell Yahoo Finance
Donald Trump undoubtedly disagrees, but a surprising portion of Americans
think their nation is great right now. In 2016. No fooling.
To plumb Trump’s popular campaign slogan, “Make America great again,”
Yahoo Finance recently ran a series of online polls asking our audience when
they felt America was last great. First we asked that open-ended question
on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Then we narrowed hundreds of responses
into six specific years: 1952, 1962, 1969, 1988, 1999 and 2016. Each of
those years more or less corresponds with a cyclical peak in employment and
the sweet spot in the business cycle.
Nearly 6,000 of you responded to our survey, and the winning year was 2016,
the choice of 31.6% of respondents. The second choice got 22.2% of the vote
—though we’re not saying yet which year that was, since that will be the
focus of a forthcoming story.
Here are a few reasons people gave for choosing 2016: “It’s no longer a
white man’s world.” “America has never stopped being great.” “Look
around and appreciate the goodness of America.” “Things are always
progressively better if you continue to make better opportunity.” In
general, those happy with the state of things in 2016 were refreshingly
optimistic.
The vote for 2016 was obviously no landslide, or even a majority. Yet it
seems surprisingly high given the sour mood the whole country seems to be in
. More than two-thirds of poll respondents say the nation is heading in the
wrong direction, according to Real Clear Politics, with only 27% saying it’
s on the right track. Gallup’s economic confidence index is at -14, which
means more people are downbeat on the economy than upbeat.
But life is still good for a significant portion of Americans, reflected in
a low 5% unemployment rate, new record levels of household net worth and an
economy that’s trudging forward more convincingly than in most other
countries. Car sales are strong, the U.S. housing market is back on its feet
and cheap gas is saving the typical family up to $1,000 per year.
The prevailing story on prosperity in America, however, is a tale of two
economies: a booming one linked to digital technology and globalization, and
a declining one tethered to 20th-century industrialization. It’s no
accident Donald Trump, with his gloomy characterization of a nation on its
back, appeals to millions, making him the leading Republican presidential
candidate. Among Democrats, Bernie Sanders has capitalized on the same anger
and frustration as he pillories crony capitalism and calls for radical new
ways to redistribute wealth. Millions of Americans have been displaced in a
turbulent economy, and worsening income inequality makes it harder today to
migrate from the have-nots to the haves.
Still, the two Anger Candidates may want to poke their heads out of their
respective bubbles and see just how deep the anger flows, because it’s not
universal. Many coastal cities and some Midwestern ones are thriving, their
residents baffled by Trumpian protestations. Many companies say they can’t
find qualified workers to fill all open jobs. Even the farm economy is
strong.
The ultimate poll on the direction of the country will come in November,
when voters choose the next president. Meanwhile, we’d like to keep this
conversation going. So let us know what you think about America’s greatness
– past or present – on the Yahoo Finance Twitter or Facebook page, using
the hashtag #greatagain. And watch soon for a different view of the last
time America was great.
Rick Newman’s latest book is Liberty for All: A Manifesto for Reclaiming
Financial and Political Freedom. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman. | s*********e
发帖数: 1814 | 2 你太不敬业了。你帖了大段的文章，结果却是看标题就能猜到在说什么，毫无水平也没
有信息量的裹脚布
然后亮点是评论，你一个没贴。。。
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【在 d*2 的大作中提到】
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: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-is-great-now-donald-trum
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: America is great now, readers tell Yahoo Finance
: Donald Trump undoubtedly disagrees, but a surprising portion of Americans
: think their nation is great right now. In 2016. No fooling.
: To plumb Trump’s popular campaign slogan, “Make America great again,”
: Yahoo Finance recently ran a series of online polls asking our audience when
: they felt America was last great. First we asked that open-ended question
: on our Facebook and Twitter pages. Then we narrowed hundreds of responses
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发帖数: 2053 | 3 我发帖没工资啊。。。
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: 你太不敬业了。你帖了大段的文章，结果却是看标题就能猜到在说什么，毫无水平也没
: 有信息量的裹脚布
: 然后亮点是评论，你一个没贴。。。
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