Anyone know how the big financial institutions are responding? I don't mean the stock markets, but talking credit rating.
If in any EU country a rightwing populist like Trump would be elected, it would be immediatly followed by Standard an Poor's dropping the credit rating by at least a whole point. DId they drop the rating for the US yet?
Ask again in 2-6 months.
So far as stuff like that goes, you kinda have to remember: Trump isn't president yet. He won't be until next year. And he's in a sort of pre-"terrify the living buggery out anyone paying attention" phase, right now, where his human resource decisions are goddamn horrifying but they're not really
doing much, yet. There's almost certainly chunks of those sorts of things panicking a bit, but many/most have likely adopted a "wait and see" outlook. After all, trump is a habitual liar, and the GOP control of congress isn't enough to give them free reign (unless they dump the filibuster, in which case pucker up tight and pray).
Surely the worst of it was either puffery, they think, or a politician doing that thing
that has been fairly effectively proven to be inaccurate where they were lying about their campaign promises and have no intention of trying to implement just about any of them, or they'll be fine regardless, or the checks and balances in place will keep him and those arrayed behind him from
actually fucking the world's economy harder than a rabbit orgy in a woodchipper.
Incidentally, this is where you play a clip of Count von Count laughing.