It seems to me that on the topic of the economic well-being of the middle class Trump has hired the wolves to guard the henhouse:

- Secretary of the Treasury - Steven Mnuchin
Former Goldman Sachs executive. Investment banker, hedge fund founder. Partnered with George Soros to buy bankrupt lender IndyMac in 2009 for $1.6 billion, renamed it OneWest, and proceeded to foreclose on 16,220 federally insured reverse mortgages, which as you my know are largely held by older and retired people. And a Hollywood producer to boot (in a company that went bankrupt)

- Commerce Secretary - Wilbur Ross
Worked for 24 years for Rothschild bankers, widely touted by the far right as overlords of financial manipulation. Founded the International Coal Group, leveraging bankruptcy regulations to allow him to set it up free of labor unions, health care and pensions (how is this helpful to the miners of West Virginia???!!!)



As to the wealth of his other cabinet picks my personal, liberal view is that I do not care a whit that they are filthy rich. I just am flabbergasted that someone who ran on the idea that the oligarchic running of our country by wealthy elites was a bad thing, has consistently tapped that same group to continue their unfettered picking of the american pocket.

And I am saddened that those who elected Trump still, for some reason I do not understand, think these people will alter the system that made them very rich indeed, all at the expense of middle and poor Americans.

Yet you were for Hillary Clinton who made millions speaking to the Wall Street crowd and has always been an insider and yet you thought she would alter the system. Since I never was a Trump fan, more a never Hillary person I will be one of the first to vote against him if he goes back on his word. Banking and SEC financial regulations are so onerous and complicated that it might actually take an insider to straighten things out. I noticed under the current administration the insiders' and one per centers did better than ever and none of the mortgage culprits went to jail. Mnuchin has already impressed me with two of his opinions. He said cutting taxes is not the answer unless you cut government spending also. His other opinion I whole heartedly agree with is too dismantle most of the Dodd-Frank bill.

They already dismantled most of Dodd Frank in the 2014 Omnibus bill. The Too Big Too Fail banks are back to their massive derivatives once again. Dodd Frank was all smoke and mirrors to begin with. All bark, no bite! The banks are so upside down, when the bonds begin to lose their collaterial value, we will see a financial avalanche of insolvencies never seen before in the world. It will dwarf all other financial events. Any financial tightening by the Fed or any negative geopolitical event could set off a dominoe effect with the markets.

On the other hand, if the Fed does NOT raise rates on Dec 14th, Santa will come early to Wall Street. I just do not see TPTB raising rates on hundreds of trillions of public and corporate debt until they are prepared to deal with the consequences. There is absolutely nothing norminal about our markets today. We will see soon enough??

Correct but remember, in December of 2014, the GOP controlled the House, the Democrats controlled the Senate and Obama signed it prior to the Senate flip due to the mid-terms. This proves my point that they are all in on it together. I love when the liberals blab about the GOP blocking Obama's agenda. If you read the appropriation bills over the years, the GOP gave Obama and the Democrat party everything they wanted. The House funded Obamacare, the Muslim refugees, work visas for the illegals, blocked the military's full payraise, along with sticking to our military for higher prescription cost and graduating higher taxes and we still run Trillion dollar deficits. The Republicans hardly did anything to defund Obama's "Transformation" agenda. Its all a freaking reality show thanks to the deep states MSM.