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From: Sultan Bin Sulayem Sent: 9/18/2015 5:26:12 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com] Subject: Fareed Zakaria: Trump sells America short Fareed Zakaria: Trump sells America short Dear Donald Trump: China, Japan and Mexico are not "killing us" By Fareed Zakaria, Thursday, September 17, 2015 Donald Trump's presidential bid is centered on the promise of his personal talents. He says he's the "most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far." (George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower, sit down!) But if there is an idea animating his candidacy, it is that the United States is being badly beaten by its economic competitors. In his speech on foreign policy this week, Trump explained that America is being bested by countries such as China, Japan and Mexico because their leaders are "smarter, more cunning and sharper than our leaders." "They're killing us," he often says. This is an odd moment to make these charges because the reality is almost entirely the opposite. The United States is more dominant on the global economic landscape than at any point since the heyday of Bill Clinton's presidency — perhaps even more so. Last quarter, the U.S. economy grew at a 3.7 percent clip. Annual growth now is almost twice that of Europe and four times that of Japan. Unemployment is at 5.1 percent, the lowest in seven years. The deficit as a percentage of gross domestic product (2.8 percent in 2014) is at its lowest since 2007. "The U.S. has come out of the 2008 crisis better than all the others," says Ruchir Sharma, head of global macro investing at Morgan Stanley. "Americans have reduced their debt burden more than the Europeans, while China's debt has skyrocketed to extremely dangerous levels. If you look outside of China, U.S. growth is actually faster even than the emerging markets. Since the 2008 crisis, U.S. equity markets have outperformed all others — in fact 9 out of the 10 most valuable companies in the world are now American. The […]