U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin attends a session during the 50th World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Asked during a news conference about Thunberg’s call to divest from fossil fuels, Mnuchin said: “Is she the chief economist? ... After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.” Before he left Davos, however, Trump seemed to extend an olive branch, saying he wished he had seen Thunberg speak.
Why is the administration threatened by this young woman?
The only thing Mnuchin knows about the economy is how to foreclose on veterans houses.
When will these money only types begin to get the concept that unbreathable air, undrinkable water and rising sea levels are going to destroy their economy faster than solving the problems. Shortsightedness is why too many are traders and not investors.
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Wow, what a jerk. Taking aim at a teen? Gosh, you should be so proud of your character (lack of it!) Why stoop so far down? You should be ashamed.
This one is for the cause.
A healthy biosphere, the only source and sustenance of all life on Earth, is the only wealth there is. Money is the symbol of an illusion. There's some economics for you.
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Is he the grown-up? Shouldn't he be the one to set an example on how to open a dialogue and not the other way around?
Are *you* the chief economist, stevenmnuchin1? No. Have a degree in environmental science? No. Are you a White, Rich, Old, Nasty Guy (WRONG)? Yes.
Is he the chief scientist?
Only the best people
Mnuchin is the human equivalent of a used diaper. He is full of fecal matter.
Just imagine the parts he doesn’t let the public see.
He should get a degree in physics and maybe he would understand.
Yeah, good idea Steve, here's some economics maybe you oughta look at... Davos2020 ClimateChange ClimateAction GretaThunberg
She's arguably more qualified for that role than Mnuchin.
I feel the same about Ivanka...
secretary U.S. We need toilet paper and dish soap and tea...
Punching down on teenagers. Always a good look.
Meanwhile Mnunchin is a sycophant and traitor w the Russian asset that is trump, not to mention the world doesn’t need another goddamn clueless economist when the world is ablaze.
He & Trump are afraid of a young girl - a lot of “tough men” were afraid of Joan of Arc too!
Mnuchin and his wife are assholes.
Says the man who claims that the 2018 tax cuts paid for themselves. Mnuchin asking somebody to study Economics is rich indeed!
Hideous man.
I have two degrees in the liberal arts; I know more about tariffs than the president. Better yet-my two children (a tween and a teen), who attend TRADITIONAL public schools, know more about tariffs than the president. My money is on GretaThunberg
Isn’t it odd that all these wimpy looking, bad actor guys call an intelligent, clear thinking seventeen year old names? Does it make them feel big and important? Well guys, it make you look like what you are...small and stupid!
wef020 there is one important reason why realDonaldTrump ''doesn't believe'' in climate change: his real estate will be less worth on future floods and disasters. The more floods, the more difficult it will be to insure property.
Slimey!
She is very immature and angry. Worst leadership flaws.
Of course this idiot would put the economy ahead of the survival of the human species. I've always said that if an alien landed on the planet and offered someone like Mnuchin a fortune to sell every last breath of air on the planet they would consider it.
He is so egregious
Democrats literally call for the murder of a bunch of teenagers who attend a Catholic school and the media is silent. Republicans say somewhat not nice things about a girl who wants to tell everyone what they can and cannot do and the media can't carry her water hard enough.
My God , why are they so threatened by this young lady?
Be busy studying and leave to the parents the advocacy and vigilance, that is if they are not busy working with a job
Is the guy who kicked elderly people out of their houses an economist? No he’s a schmuck.
...The treasury has yet to figure out how to balance their own books through politics “and” stay within the realms of the law...
а вот не следует свой поганый взгляд потомка «грязи и клона» направлять в сторону молоденькой девицы высших Белых Родов (!!) Это может плохо закончиться ...
FORECLOSURE KING has the audacity to criticized a minor! He has no decency
No, but she has a soul and is able to look at issues facing society through lenses that are not purely economic and U.S. economic-centric for that matter.
go back to your aquarium, sucker
Don’t you people get it. Political play. Put “child” up there with strong statements. Of course people will throw stones. She is not a child, she is a human shield for the panic stricken world-on-fire crowd. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
If Kamala Harris did her job, Steve would be saying this from prison.
The administration seems very triggered by her.
Shouldn't this guy be in jail?
I'll take whatever bet you want that this young lady is smarter then you.
Did Trump get an economics degree?
well, no... but st least she's not a puppet
Mnuchin truly isn't aware how slimy he is.
Booger lipped, bagel snapper says what?
These supposed officials are so vacuous.
No, she's smarter.
These clownish Trump administration minions attacking a child. Can’t make this stuff up.
Yeah, because he takes advice from the president, an F student who probably never passed econ 101
.....says the man who’s literally married to a money-seeking comic book villain
Exc
The funny thing is that by the time she graduates from colleg- never mind
Not much point in understanding economics if the world is dead
Naw, man. I learned Greenhouse effect in grade school. She’s got a right to feel that the planet’s future is more important than the economy (and I agree).
The funny thing is she is more close to empirical research in environmental economics than he is.
Munchkin need to ReadTheseNikes
Someone needs to explain economics to Trump, who knows as much about economics as I do, which is nothing.
Truth
Economics is just more smoke and mirrors. She needs to study Mathematics and Physics. She could start by turning up to her high school on Fridays to catch up with other people her age on a general education.
Greta should have stayed home.
And Steve may not be alive to see the outcome of his kind of economic. Over climate change effects.
Actually well said by the man
I’ve never seen a man resemble a large mouth Bass more then Mnuchin
MichioXO FFS.....She’ll be lucky to have a college to study at thanks to idiots like you who choose to line your pockets over protecting our future...🤬🤬🤬🤬🙄🙄
A healthy biosphere, only source and sustenance of all life on Earth, is the only wealth there is. Take your shoes off and walk on Earth, moron.
High praise. Everything this man says is 100% wrong. Ipso Facto...
Does that mean he doesn't know economics?
The grifters around realDonaldTrump are bunch of man-babies...
janeyhasmoved People don’t seem to understand that life and societies are made up of more than economies
Classic take! Climate activists say: 'Hey the world is burning and people are dying!' And people like Mnuchin and world leaders ask: 'But what about the money?!' Your money won't mean jack squat when we're knee deep in ocean water and the land is constantly on fire.
Economics won’t matter if we are extinct due to an inhabitable planet another idiot who works in the White House
What does any of this have to do with economics?
Then why does he take advice from Trump?
🤔 - is it Greta that needs to study economics, or Mnuchin? Seems like he is pretty clueless as to how business works. Alternatively, Mcuchin could actually try and understand climate science, but that may be beyond him.
As the world's eco systems collapse, this boy will be in jail
Everyone around Trump is just as corrupt, racist, misogynistic and criminal, whether or not convicted... yet! 😡
stevenmnuchin1 is a douchebag
He is super right
Does Steve need economics explained to him
She is a child prodigy and she doesn’t require degrees to speak the truth that is inconvenient to you.
The future does not lie with the Mnuchins it lies with the Thunbergs
Economists not lead a generation into the future, they draw the civilization into the swamp.
Good lord....who cares!!
We all know stevenmnuchin1 , a liar employed by realDonaldTrump to bully the world for the sake of xxx.
Sort of the same way Manuchin explained how the tax cuts would benefit the middle class and the every working person...what an asshole
High school drop out tells the world how to live their lives, OK.
PREPOSTEROUS: 'Mnuchin may have to learn climate change destruction & calamity'
Go to hell!!!
Yet another Trump Administration embarrassment. One’s education (or lack of it) is meaningless if you ignore facts.. whether it’s about the environment and climate change, or the glaring incompetence and guilt of realDonaldTrump and the coverup by the GOP.
On brand for that slime bucket.
Will she learn how to steal?
At least she can read script even did not finish HS and has mental issues. Her ass is sold by her greedy actors parents long time ago to US activists.
Greta & all her striking students would carry a far more impactful message if they made one massive change of their own to support their message To date, other than skipping school, I haven't seen one major change by teens to save the planet I suggest less emotion, more action
His statement speaks for itself, he’s ridiculous! And ignorant!
She should be given an honory PhD in honesty and human rights as awarded by millions of listeners and the content and reliability of her position. Mnuchin cannot dream of honesty.
Mnuchin’s a damn fool
I assume he ok with Trump explaining things to us though?
Greta's parents and everyone exploiting her should be in jail. Let children have a frickin' childhood.
Economics isn't a science, it is a crap discipline. Our dominating model is continued economic growth yet this paradigm doesn't factor in the unsustainability of finite resources or the degradation of the environment which is the inevitable result.
He’s absolutely right. PRs companies which have been misusing GretaThunberg must feel ashamed of themselves!
Someone should.
Wouldn’t matter what she studied, where she studied, or how she said it. Mnuchin’s ears would still be cloth, because appears to be riddled with unconscious biases to point of delusion. Maybe should go off and study some philosophy of mind, conscious & unconscious cognition..
Being part of the administration that started a trade war costing the country tens of billions. Economics is not their strong suit.
Shame on the Americans savetheplanet
Considering the quality of education in Sweden, Ms Thunberg may already be far more advanced in the social science of Economics than anyone in the *trump administration.
I hate him he is a crook and a traitor
Anyone with the slightest smidge of knowledge in economics would know that 26 people owning more wealth than half of the Earth's population is the recipe for disaster. Yet Mnuchin is still cutting taxes on the rich. The clue is: they're greedy bastards that don't give a shit.
Classic shortsighted greed grab fear monger. I hate these clowns
Particularly Keynes, am I right, Steve? 🙌😜😘 stevenmnuchin1
It is perfectly normal for an adult to go at an underaged kid like that.... I mean, ya know
She could probably teach you a thing or two 😂
On the one hand you have money and profit (for a few); the other the lives and livelihoods of billions... Minchin’s economics says full steam ahead.
Darkness hates the light.
Why don't you study trickle-down economics and get back to us, d-bag. Don't pretend that you care about anyone but the top 1%.
Cause all these old white men know soooo much......we should be pleased the young care and aware of the fact that they have more information at the tip of their fingers than was held in all the b Libraries when I was a child.
Still waiting for someone to explain javankas qualifications for... well... anything...
This guy indeed studied Economics
Government needs to figure it out, not our children
Shameful Treasury Secretary from shameful fossil fuel burning country.
She can come back and replace him!!
This guy is completely absurd. As if she will ever go to college. She has what like an 8th grade education at age 16?
Looking forward to Mnuchin's new book: Flexing on the Wrong Side of History
'Mnuchin was a member of Sears Holdings's board of directors from 2005 until Dec 2016... After Sears went bankrupt, the company that formerly owned it sued Mnuchin... for 'asset stripping'...' (Wikipedia). If true, Mnuchin should've studied ethics. (Did he study economics?)
Very true FFF and Luisamneubauer can teach an economic lesson after graduation. z_abfalter therealhabeck nasanasal tbgstephen
I think, you don't have to PhD to see what is going on.
Try a zerohedge study of economics without humans.
He is totally right, what has she achieved so far except talking...
She's have to because Mnuchin and the entire Trump cabal don't seem to understand how anything works.
This is very much in line with the kind of dismissive and sometimes abusive language coming out if the current White House. We should nit be surprised.
If stevenmnuchin1 is suggesting that we can't do anything about climate change 'because economics', then HE should probably go back to school because he's clearly integrating over the wrong loss function.
How dare he!
Okay, so treasury secretary of USA is asking for economy lessons from a high school kid.. The States are in capable hands.. GretaThunberg
🤦🏻♀️trump mnuchin BeBest
What a complete tool.
And this
MollyMEP perhaps you explain green economics to Mr Mnuchin?
Amazing how such grown up adults would be so unaccommodating of a child! 🙄
When stevenmnuchin1 gets some environmental science degrees, he can comment. Until then, that Fucktard needs to shut the hell up.
So you can have a degree in economics despite being a fuckwit? Is that the point he is trying to make? I am confused
A nice dose of reality. Well done. Doomsday prophets 0 - reality 2 And reuters please stop shoving hyped up troubled children down our throat.
stevenmnuchin1 careful what you ask for. She might just do that. Where were you when you were 16? Clueless in your own world reading comic books and still riding a bicycle with training wheels.
Yeah Steve, it's all about the money and profit. It's ppl like Steve that will do anything to exceed their own goals, at the expense of everyone and everything. As long as it's good for him, why not? There are words for ppl like that
shame on you stevenmnuchin1 don't you have other things to worry about, and you are working with gangsters, uh what econ school of thought is that from jc
It's not a 'spat,' it's a couple of petty men using their power to bully a teenager. And your ridiculous coverage is helping accomplish that, so congratulations I guess?
Even with an A.B. in Economics from Yale, Mnuchin is still as intellectually deep as a puddle
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Rich dicks like the Human Carp here can never understand not burning the world down if there's money to be made from it.
And then you might care? Ha!
nayaabezahra
Well spoken!
She is young but bold and straight forward. Australia is burning, 20% of Brazil forest was already in ashes, Glacier everywhere is melting, air pollution is on the rise. After all this should our children learn economics
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