Why do you expect anything else from him than just stating his own opinion?
Mine is roughly the same btw, for as much as I care.
Mine is roughly the same btw, for as much as I care.
In addition, he frequently changes his opinion and is pretty much the opposite of "straight and clear", except of course for a few themes that he constantly champions ("ban Muslims", "build the wall", and a very underspecified "make American great again"), but e.g. he can't even make up his mind on how much the wall will cost.
(Don't take this comment as an endorsment of Hillary, she's most likely a liar and deplorable in so many ways, in addition her positions are very maleable, but make no mistake, Trump is no better. It really is a choice between a disaster and a catastrophe.)
Do you have a source for that? My understanding was that he received a $1MM loan from his Father after graduating business school.
As I said, it's a contentious issue, plagued by bad data and deliberate misinformation. I doubt anyone knows the facts, not even Trump himself. But, Googling e.g. "trump wealth" brings up a few articles that discuss the source (and evolution) of his wealth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/29/the-m...
Aside from the cash loans, he was made an executive in his father's real estate firm which owned a bunch of buildings in Manhattan.
His father would further help prevent his businesses from going bankrupt by illegally propping up Trump's NJ casino with a $3.5M gift in the 1990s:
http://articles.philly.com/1991-04-09/news/25780577_1_casino...
True, but like all businesses in the economy his company has the distinction of actually participating in economic ventures to create wealth. Owning shares in the S&P500 isn't creating anything.
To me that's a clear difference that isn't considered enough. And let's not forget that most mutual funds themselves don't beat the S&P500, so a lot of investors don't even capture those returns.
Yup. I'm just judging his opinion with my own opinion. Which is that he (and you) are wildly misreading those candidates if that's what you really believe about them.