It will be positive.

Flu is for Europe, Japan, China etc Kenya will catch diarrhoea

Lol

An introverted US means the world economy will contract, reduced production in China and Asia.

Looking forward to lower oil prices and overall lower market prices for manufactured goods.

On the flip side, innovation will slow down and with it slower improvement of productivity.

But!

Trump is a businessman so maybe nothing will really happen. He will soon discover that his rhetoric about being a tough negotiator works in business where the bottomline of profit and shareholders return does not apply to politics where peoples emotional needs transcends all. Then he will revert to status quo.

What are you saying? That the computer you are using right now is made in Kenya?

Hopefully, a Trump economy will re introduce market protectionist policies as a good thing. We should protect our markets at all costs. However, politicians open us up for rape every where you look. We focus on foreign quality rather than grow local competition to improve quality. Farmers suffer for lack of market access, yet supermarkets are filled up with foreign crisps, tomatoes, beans, ndengu etc. Carpenters suffer for clients yet supermarkets sell seats from China. Tailors are non existent. Bata has become a trading company rather than manufacturing company. We are an economy of traders. Our fortunes are dictated by the manufacturing masters abroad.

That is the same thing Trump is saying but here's the problem and let me explain it to you slowly.

That economy of made in kenya coz i love kenya died ages ago. Consumers will buy what is cheap and not what is made in America.

If you enter a wallmart, there's nothing made in the US. So assume trump says all goods made in usa only. so walmart has the american goods but guess what, the buyers can't afford it. Lower sales and revenue, falling share price and a drop in all these people's retirement funds.

Let's look at labour costs. The average american motor worker used to get 40 dollars an hour. Now this is the rust belt fellow who's complaining he can't get a job. He's now said he's going to chase away all mexicans. But shall he do the job for 10 dollars? So lower production for us manufacturers.

The reality on the ground and the wishful thinking from neanderthal former factory workers are two entirely different things.

It's like telling your kids to become a makanga because when you were young makangas used to get a lot of cash.



I hope you understand why we say, Trump is a conman and a now I agree a great conman.

Ati buy American? That shall never happen. Otherwise the French shall say, don't sell us things from America and vice versa.

But I'll believe you when I see one thing in your home that is actually and honestly made in Kenya..

lol..haki guys can be funny. Theory mingi sana

tom_boy that experiment was tried by walmart et al and they adopted the current one based on simple math.

These americans are very good at gloating about their country. but when it comes to paying more money for their own goods, they won't do it. In fact, they can't afford it.

Trump himself buys steel from China. Go figure

My friend, that made in america label is fake, nothing is produced their anymore.

That is why each and every manufacturer in the US from apple, to microsoft, hp, et al produce their products outside the country.

Their citizens feel too proud to do real work and I don't expect that to change.

Reality is going to hit these fellows hard. There are two realities

1. Trump implements what he told them - In which case, I'll start buying gold now.
2. Trump has no intention of implementing any promise -

Either way, they are Turkeys who went to church to pray for thanks giving.

But isn't a weak dollar perfect for Trump & America: lowers cost of manufacturing?

The made in America label is fake because companies have no incentives to make in America. Trump will create those incentives, lower taxes, market protection from cheap imports. Americans may buy a commodity at twice the price in China but so what. What matters is not the cost / price of a commodity but the value chain created by that commodity.

A 200 sh loaf of bread that has employed kenyans is of far greater value to our country than a 50sh loaf imported from China. People are better of sacrificing to buy the bread than buy a mtumba car. The country will be better off.