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Both the BREXIT campaigners and Trump over-promised on how they will fix the financial crisis.

Neither started to deliver yet, and will be seeing what they can actually do in 2017.

It kinda does not make sense because their promises are either mutually exclusive (strict fiscal policy but spending) or do not play well with the rest of the world (tariffs and other trade restrictions which eventually would be matched on the other side).

In many smaller countries, the politicians would run a whole campaign on the disaffected feeling and over-promising on how good they will be in fixing it. Once they were in power however, they would not achieve much and the next party would over-promise in order to get elected.

In the following years we will witness how over-promising will play with a super-power.



>Both the BREXIT campaigners and Trump over-promised on how they will fix the financial crisis.

Important to keep in mind that even large amounts of the pro-Brexit campaign didn't actually expect to win, it was meant to be a bargaining chip.


I think this is the heart of the matter. Automation and AI will ensure that many jobs will never return.


> Neither started to deliver yet

Election day was yesterday. Shocking how Trump hasn't fixed US economy yet.




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