The secret of Trump’s presidential success

Friday 18 September 2015

Donald Trump continues to shake up the US Presidential race. Examine this chart and weep for our fates, from Bloomberg:

And does it work? Well, yes:

But before you get too cocky, imagine for a moment the rousing reception at the local kinder to the following statements of policy:

“stop the boats”
stop the “death cult”
“stop the deficit”
“stop the carbon tax”

About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.