James Freeman: Have Trump's Policies Put Us In a Place to Withstand Joe Biden?
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That the United States has to demand more from China.
Even Hank Paulson, former Goldman Sachs CEO, is kind of Mr. China engagement.
He has said that they have not lived up to their promises in terms of the trade relationship.
They've done very little, if anything, to stop the theft of American invention.
So I think you would hope that perhaps for political reasons, the Joe Biden you get post-Trump might be tougher than the Joe Biden you got as vice president.
And look, if this is a competition, the Trump economic policy has put the U.S. in a pretty good position here.
I know Biden is kind of talking now as if...
There's sort of this huge disaster that he will face when he comes into office and that we will need some massive government interventions to rescue the economy.
The fact is the table is set for a really strong rebound next year, especially with this amazing Operation Warp Speed triumph with the vaccines now rolling out something on the order of 8 million doses distributed this week.
The United States, I think, thanks in large part to Donald Trump, is going to be in pretty good shape as Joe Biden takes over.
Right, but Joe Biden just announced that our darkest hours are ahead.
Yeah, it's odd because he took the vaccine on Monday, which shows that much of what he said during the campaign was wrong, that Donald Trump did oversee a safe and quick vaccine approval.
He should understand, and therefore change his rhetoric as well, that the vulnerable population is going to be inoculated largely over the next several weeks.
Much of this work is going to be done by the time he's taking the oath of office.
So there is not a crisis, and he can thank Donald Trump for that in terms of there's not a great need for government intervention next year.