Comment: Merry Christmas Gerald. 

The world will be ok.   If Trump screws up, let someone else come in and try something else in 4 years.

The americans want to try something different.  His cabinet at least is filled with people from the private sector, instead of just lawyers and academia.   His secretary of state spent decades going round the world successfully negotiating deals for Exxon-Mobil.   Compare that against John Kerry and Hillary Clinton and what they did in Iran Syria and Libya and you have to think that maybe T.Rex can't get any worse than those two.

The cabinet members are generally surprisingly successful people collectively with a over a century of private sector or military experience.  

Nasim Taleb said :  in the absence of skin in the game, intellectuals and pseudo intellectuals are indistinguishable.    There is a difference between writing regulations about businesses and the ability to run a business.

Just look at Jonathan Gruber and the ACA debacle.