Talk:Donald Trump achievements: Economic policy and labor

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Foxconn: include or not?

The recent news about the $10 billion Foxconn factory with 13,000 jobs[1][2][3][4][5][6] definitely is good news, but should we include it? My concern is that this is only an announcement and not much more. But, I am open to hearing from other editors about this. --1990'sguy (talk) 23:26, 1 August 2017 (EDT)

Foxconn will build another factory in Michigan: [7] This is definitely good news. --1990'sguy (talk) 15:17, 7 August 2017 (EDT)

Jobless claims at low streak not seen for 43 years

The last time the number of people receiving unemployment benefits was lower than 2 million for 16 weeks was in 1973/1974.[8] A good achievement. --1990'sguy (talk) 18:09, 3 August 2017 (EDT)

Bloomberg misrepresented in a Breitbart article

For editors who have not followed User:1990'sguy to Andy's talk page, there are two different concepts being confused:

  • Idea #1: 13-year record quarterly earnings - this means that if you look at quarterly earnings for the last 13 years, the most recently reported earnings are the highest for that company. (This has nothing to do with forecast or estimated earnings.)
  • Idea #2: 13-year record quarterly earning season - this means that if you count the number of S&P 500 companies where their actual earnings for the quarter exceeded the estimated earnings projections for that same quarter for each company.

Bloomberg said idea #2. Breitbart then misread it and repeated it as idea #1. User:1990'sguy then summarized idea #1 and added it to the article.diff I then corrected it to reflect the Bloomberg article (idea #2) and the facts. diff Very few companies have reported "their best earnings in 13 years." Bloomberg is saying that a record number of companies are doing better than earlier estimates -- it might be because everyone was conservative in their estimates or that the dollar weakened faster than expected, or both. It does not mean that if you look at each company, this last earnings will be higher than any other quarter in 13 years. Perhaps we can have more editors comment on this.

I have been carefully adding back in the comparison between forecast earnings and actual reported earnings, and User:1990'sguy keeps taking it out so as to create a false claim that most of the S&P 500 have posted their highest quarterly earnings in 13 years. Please help us keep this accurate. If we can't state it accurately, perhaps it is not worth including. JDano (talk) 19:08, 14 August 2017 (EDT)

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