My computer directory on Trump is mostly just primary sources, that is, URLs at YouTube of complete speeches, rallies, interviews, transcripts prepared by C-SPAN, Time, NYT, etc., stuff pulled down from Trump's Web site, etc.

Trump University -- Calling it a university is a bit much. I heard his description of what it was -- that sounded okay. There is a role for education that is closer to practice than in the usual universities -- I used to be a prof in a relatively good B-school and can have some sympathy for what Trump claimed he was doing. But such a thing has to be buyer beware -- actually, much the same for anything in education. My guess would be that Trump started his university mostly for making money, enhancing his brand, and, maybe, getting leads on some hiring. Was there some high pressure selling? Maybe. That's pretty standard for for-profit education. There were some interviews with some people that claimed to like the courses, found them useful, and made money with them. Those students looked like relatively mature business people. I can believe that to get a lot of financial benefit from the real estate parts, would have to be good in the business of real estate or at least willing to work hard to be.

IMHO, Trump has been in business; one pillar of his success has been publicity to build a brand; in this, he is good at tooting his own horn, relatively loudly; he's nearly always selling, say, ABC, always be closing. He has admitted that he exaggerates, but he did say "harmless" exaggerations. Maybe some of the exaggerations are not so harmless.

If he wins, and I certainly believe he will, especially after his Clinton Cash speech, which I believe is just his first of a continuing flow of shots at Hillary (and I suspect her legal problems will keep her off the ballot in November -- I suspect that the FBI is building a rock solid case with just the right charge to bring), I believe that what he will do will be an okay attempt at what he's promised considering that his promises were from someone selling hard, ABC, with some exaggeration.

For improving on ObamaCare, he has already outlined his ideas, and it seems that the main idea is just to let insurance companies sell across state lines and craft policies quite narrowly targeted, a few customers at a time. So, you pay for only what you need and get a relatively good price on that. And maybe he will ask the medical profession to publish price lists. A lot of people will believe that that will beat ObamaCare and, thus, have Trump keep his promise.

For jobs, broadly I believe that there really is a lot he can do. One reason he can be "the greatest jobs president" is timing -- we're about ready to come out of The Great Recession. The economy still needs some help coming out, but I believe that Trump can supply that.

For bringing jobs back, I have to suspect that he can but it will be a quite slow process, for much progress, all of his first term. Why? Because businesses will have to get started, and the labor costs can't be so high too few people will buy the results.

But there are other reasons he can be a great jobs president -- we have about 95 million people out of the labor force.

Another reason: He will say
"drill, Baby, drill" and "all of the above" on energy supplies.

Another reason: Rummy said this week that in the 1950s we were spending about 10% of GDP on the military and are down to, what was it, about 4% now. Well, Trump may take us back to 10%, and that will create a lot of jobs, say, like Reagan did when he spent a lot on the US military.

Lowering taxes will help getting the economy going and create jobs.

How to balance the budget? Get the economy going, get people better jobs so that they pay more taxes, put a lot of the 95 million back to work, etc. Don't forget the
tariffs. So, get a huge flood of new tax revenue. Does this arithmetic add up? I suspect that he will mostly MAKE add up but not easily. To have this arithmetic add up, he will be constrained.

If he slaps tariffs on imports, then he might create some inflation. I suspect that effect will slow his ability to do much of what he wants in the economy.

Maybe he has some good economic advisers who have outlined a plan that will likely work.

Enforcing the immigration laws? Sure, he can do that right away.

Export illegals? Make a lot of progress with just one word, e-Verify.

I wish we knew a lot more about just what and how Trump will do things, but I doubt we will learn much more before the election.

If Hillary runs, I suspect that there won't be much left of her after Trump beats up on her from now until election day.

Trump is a tough, smart cookie who is good at winning -- I believe he will win against Hillary or whomever he Dems run.

But I don't think that Trump is really running a scam.