The two opposing views. Half-empty, we’re heading back to the ‘70s, oil price soaring, unions striking for higher wages, recession on the way and a new woman in power who says she can sort it all out. Half-full, shortages of everything pushed up prices after the war especially in America, but their government wisely supported industry, investment boomed and the Golden 50s’ emerged. And were followed by Swinging London and Peace and Love, man, with which we could all do at the moment. One things for sure, it’s still, for better or worse, what happens in the US which is most important for your investments and all of our pockets. Remember one of Boris’s parting, final PMQ shots to his successor was ‘stay close to the Americans’…
“Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware”
There’s a perception that whatever might be the consequences for the rest of the world, Trump as President should be good for business. Surely, as a business man himself, he’d be the friend of Corporate America, and everything, money-making-wise, went pretty well last time around didn’t it?
