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“If China wanted to hit us hard, they could unload treasuries. Is that a threat? Sure it is,” said Guy Cecala, executive chair of Inside Mortgage Finance. “They’re going to look at pushing levers and trying to put pressure ... Targeting housing and mortgage rates is a powerful driver of something like that.”

At the end of January, foreign countries owned $1.32 trillion worth of U.S. MBS, or 15% of the total outstanding, according to Ginnie Mae. The top owners: Japan, China, Taiwan and Canada.

China had already begun selling off some U.S. MBS last year, with the country’s holdings at the end of September down 8.7% year over year and down 20% by the start of December. Japan, which had shown gains in its MBS in September, showed a drop at the start of December.

If China and Japan were to accelerate those sales further, and if other nations were to follow, mortgage rates would rise even more than they are now.

“The concern, I think, is on folks’ radar screens, and being raised as a potential source of friction,” said Eric Hagen, mortgage and specialty finance analyst at BTIG. “Most investors are concerned that mortgage spreads would widen in response to either China, Japan or Canada coming in with a retaliatory objective.”
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Comment from Kevin O'Leary on China:

"104% tariffs against China are not enough. I'm advocating 400%," O'Leary said in an interview on CNN. "I do business in China. They don't play by the rules. They've been in the WTO for decades. They have never abided by any of the rules they agreed to when they came in for decades. They cheat, they steal, they steal IP, I can't litigate in their courts."
 
If those are the jobs that Chinese 14 year olds have, what jobs do Chinese adults have?

The average Chinese wage for tech factories is about $3.00 per hour. How much do you suppose American workers will be paid for those jobs, and what will those drastically increased labor costs do to the price of goods in the US?
If those are the jobs that Chinese 14 year olds have, what jobs do Chinese adults have?

If it's anything like here in NW Indiana, they are running Message Parlors, er Prostitution Parlors.
As far as wages, Probably $30 an hour. They will be running robots. Those robots will take the place of 10 Chinese girls so the labor cost is moot.
 
If those are the jobs that Chinese 14 year olds have, what jobs do Chinese adults have?

If it's anything like here in NW Indiana, they are running Message Parlors, er Prostitution Parlors.
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Oof. Xenophobia or racism motivating that comment?
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If those are the jobs that Chinese 14 year olds have, what jobs do Chinese adults have?

If it's anything like here in NW Indiana, they are running Message Parlors, er Prostitution Parlors.
As far as wages, Probably $30 an hour. They will be running robots. Those robots will take the place of 10 Chinese girls so the labor cost is moot.
Lol wow, you are quite the representative for a Trump supporter.

I'm sure you've seen that Florida is looking into expanding child labor after deporting so many illegal immigrants. I'm assuming the same will happen nationwide if we somehow get the infrastructure to deal with this isolationism.

Assuming you are even right, however, it doesn't take that many people to run robots. So even in your best case scenario we are going to be hiring literally tens, maybe even hundreds(!), of people to run the robots all so we can increase prices as we try to figure out how to get the material to make the goods. Nice. 'MERICA!
 
Lol wow, you are quite the representative for a Trump supporter.

I'm sure you've seen that Florida is looking into expanding child labor after deporting so many illegal immigrants. I'm assuming the same will happen nationwide if we somehow get the infrastructure to deal with this isolationism.

Assuming you are even right, however, it doesn't take that many people to run robots. So even in your best case scenario we are going to be hiring literally tens, maybe even hundreds(!), of people to run the robots all so we can increase prices as we try to figure out how to get the material to make the goods. Nice. 'MERICA!
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"Dem Chinese 14 year olds don't got no robots to help 'em. I feel fer dem lil' Chinamen kiddies. They'd be a whole lot better off if they were workin' in some good ol' Merican NW Indiana massage parlors as prostitutes. cause at least then they'd be in Merica."

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Not to mention we don't enough willing bodies to do all the manufacturing jobs trump says are coming back.

There's an underlying issue among the younger generation that no one wants to talk about, more so young men. For a variety of reasons, they don't want to do the manual work than manufacturing jobs require. Or construction for that matter. A motivated young man can get some training.......or just start at the bottom and learn, and make a pretty decent living as a plumber or electrician or in other trades.

I'm just not sure the jobs, if they come back, are gonna have people to fill them........at least the "Americans" trump thinks will take them.
No doubt there are some very lazy people, but that goes well with surviving well enough without putting forth the effort that apparently is allowed. Maybe their lives are too easy to want to work? A person willing to work and grow a business can do very well as a plumber, electrician or HVAC and by the time he doesn't want the physical part he should be established with people working for him...course management of people can be difficult. Somewhere there is a funny video from years ago where they are evaluating a college grad and as a joke tell him he is qualified for manual labor
 
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By bringing up costs to talk about price, it seems to me that you may be conflating demand and supply. The price of something is not directly dependent on cost to produce at all. It is simply dependent on what people will pay. cost to produce only matters to supply. If the price people want to pay is lower than what it costs you to produce, you simply don't produce.

For drugs, the difference in price between generics and brand comes from government granting pharma companies term-limited monopolies via drug patents. That's the only reason why drugs under patent cost so much, the drug maker is a monopoly and therefore extracting monopoly rents (i.e. much higher prices)

After the patent ends, why do brand still cost more than generic. That's the just the brand premium. They have been in the market longer, and everybody has come to associate them with the drug. they are able to charge a premium for that branding and that's usually much much less than they can charge under monopoly pricing. None of the pricing has anything directly to do with costs of research. none.

By the way, big pharma in US are mostly drug approval and drug-marketing companies, not drug research companies. Those are usually smaller companies or universities.
Yes, this is my son-in-law. My daughter met him when Lilly used to fly him in for the last three days every month on his research. His company was happy to get away from Lilly and about to be sold again to some investors. The meat of his company are three people, two doctorates in Biological Statistics and the other a doctor in Genetics and they are a very small company working inside another larger company. He isn't doing the research now as much as AI and having people in Europe and such. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-guennel-91382b11
 
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Oof. Xenophobia or racism motivating that comment?


If the shoe fits.
 
If those are the jobs that Chinese 14 year olds have, what jobs do Chinese adults have?

If it's anything like here in NW Indiana, they are running Message Parlors, er Prostitution Parlors.

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Oof. Xenophobia or racism motivating that comment?
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If the shoe fits.
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You quoted two articles stating that there are prostitutes in NW Indiana. Neither article mentions that those prostitutes are of Chinese ethnicity. Pretty sure that prostitutes come from all ethnic backgrounds.

So the question remains; was your original post motivated by xenophobia or racism?
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wow Thanks Trump for backing away from the tariffs.
I know some people say will say your previous position was just negotiating.
I am happy to give you and your fans that win.
Although I disagree, I think the threat of tariff is a more effective tool than actually implementing one.

Me, I just want us to not shoot ourselves. So I am happy he has backed off.
 
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For those on here that reflexively defend everything our President does. Please give it some serious thought. Not everything he does is right/genius/defendable.

Perhaps bringing manufacturing back is indeed a laudable strategic goal. You will have to get smart and targeted and mid to long-term thinking in how you go about doing, one in which the person coming after you (even if its a different party) can still continue. Those broad tarrifs he announced were just not. That was suicidal policy. And I'm not just saying that because I am not a conservative
 
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wow Thanks Trump for backing away from the tariffs.
I know some people say will say your previous position was just negotiating.
I am happy to give you and your fans that win.

Me, I just want us to not shoot ourselves.
You, was your post intended for Trump?

Or were you trying to trick katBMW for the fun of it?
 
No doubt there are some very lazy people, but that goes well with surviving well enough without putting forth the effort that apparently is allowed. Maybe their lives are too easy to want to work? A person willing to work and grow a business can do very well as a plumber, electrician or HVAC and by the time he doesn't want the physical part he should be established with people working for him...course management of people can be difficult. Somewhere there is a funny video from years ago where they are evaluating a college grad and as a joke tell him he is qualified for manual labor
Calling them lazy is just the easy out for the get off my lawn crowd. Sure it's part of it but it's far more complex.
They see unqualified nobodies making big money on the internet with YouTube or podcasts and the like. Lots of kids smoke pot.......cause it's legal in many places.......and the archaic drug testing protocols mean they won't get hired. They've been led to believe manual labor is degrading. All kinds of reasons.

I'm kind an old fart like you and also are drawn to the lazy reasoning.......or the parents are too permissive. Get off your ass and go to work. They all want to be paid for more than they are worth. Don't value education. Even the ones who work have to live at home because they can't afford to get out of the house.

But harping about why doesn't solve the problem. And it is a problem.
 
Perhaps bringing manufacturing back is indeed a laudable strategic goal. You will have to get smart and targeted and mid to long-term thinking in how you go about doing, one in which the person coming after you (even if its a different party) can still continue. Those broad tarrifs he announced were just not. That was suicidal policy. And I'm not just saying that because I am not a conservative
You seem to be struggling to focus on whomever your post is intended for.
 
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Calling them lazy is just the easy out for the get off my lawn crowd. Sure it's part of it but it's far more complex.
They see unqualified nobodies making big money on the internet with YouTube or podcasts and the like. Lots of kids smoke pot.......cause it's legal in many places.......and the archaic drug testing protocols mean they won't get hired. They've been led to believe manual labor is degrading. All kinds of reasons.
Didn't you strongly favor making pot legal?
 
You seem to be struggling to focus on whomever your post is intended for.
you. you reflexively defend every smart and stupid thing this President does. No. some things he does are disastrous and will NEVER ever achieve the stated aim, now or in the future. It's just stupidity honestly
 
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" Nobody's ever heard of it. Gotta be a record."

Are you freakin serious? Probably made the whole thing happen just so he could say this for the 1000th time.

 
Calling them lazy is just the easy out for the get off my lawn crowd. Sure it's part of it but it's far more complex.
They see unqualified nobodies making big money on the internet with YouTube or podcasts and the like. Lots of kids smoke pot.......cause it's legal in many places.......and the archaic drug testing protocols mean they won't get hired. They've been led to believe manual labor is degrading. All kinds of reasons.

I'm kind an old fart like you and also are drawn to the lazy reasoning.......or the parents are too permissive. Get off your ass and go to work. They all want to be paid for more than they are worth. Don't value education. Even the ones who work have to live at home because they can't afford to get out of the house.

But harping about why doesn't solve the problem. And it is a problem.
I wish I could find the video years ago...it was very funny. I think it was Candid Camera. I'll search more. Sometimes there needs to be more of an incentive. The housing market has been crazy...no doubt AND they think it is beneath them to do the work many of us did when starting out and certainly want to be paid more than they are worth. I agree that all you listed are true, but I'm not sure that incentives couldn't change and change some of that. Kim was let go from Delphi at one time due to mandatory percentage cuts in Purchasing. The next day she was working for McDonalds until getting another job. She had bills to pay and was responsible and so you swallow your pride and do what you must. I guess some of us were responsible, paid our bills, and tried hard to be self sufficient.

I just believe they can do much better and should be expected. My father was paralyzed and couldn't talk when I was 20 and died 11 years later when I was 31. My mother was in a nursing home for a couple of years and then her last 3 years two of my sisters and I paid my other sister to take care of her since she (sister) had recently lost her husband (the one I mentioned before that was on 60 minutes due to the public sector collective bargaining bill in Ohio). My sister in Ohio has been with a man since (they keep finances separate and never got married. He (Oscar) was a surgeon in Paraguay and feared for his life when the communists came in. Oscar came to New York and passed papers, brought a wind breaker jacket with him and had a fold down bed. He studied for his medical license with an English translation book beside his medical book. He never became a surgeon again and just got his MD license. Still, he was but another example that with some perseverance beat the odds.

She (mom) died when I was 46. My father made $125 week in the 70s and my mother sewed for a clothing store and was a beautician. I still remember walking into the shop (part of the home) and seeing nickels, penneys, quarters and dimes on the counter. I asked her why the change and she said that was all the women could pay. She also did the hair for the local funeral home. She became a beautician in Chicago by living with a couple who she fed, did laundry and general housework outside of her beauty school hours where she walked 17 blocks to and from school and so that is how she paid for her schooling. She made my sisters and I clothes to wear and probably 15 years before she died she saved hair she cut if long enough and made wigs for cancer patients by sewing the hair. I think there were maybe 7 in the country that could do that? She was very talented and would have been wealthier, but her grandfather was a banker and when the depression hit he allowed all the people their money...even his partner absorbing the debt which he knew would cost him, but thought it was the right thing to do. She was very talented and dad was an athlete and salesman.

There are very many that had it much worse than I have...very many, but people are not owed anything and there is a certain amount of pride in not being a burden. I say that and have three very different children with different levels of success. I just believe more of the youth need a bit more drive.
 
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I wish I could find the video years ago...it was very funny. I think it was Candid Camera. I'll search more. Sometimes there needs to be more of an incentive. The housing market has been crazy...no doubt AND they think it is beneath them to do the work many of us did when starting out and certainly want to be paid more than they are worth. I agree that all you listed are true, but I'm not sure that incentives couldn't change and change some of that. Kim was let go from Delphi at one time due to mandatory percentage cuts in Purchasing. The next day she was working for McDonalds until getting another job. She had bills to pay and was responsible and so you swallow your pride and do what you must. I guess some of us were responsible, paid our bills, and tried hard to be self sufficient.

I just believe they can do much better and should be expected. My father was paralyzed and couldn't talk when I was 20 and died 11 years later when I was 31. My mother was in a nursing home for a couple of years and then her last 3 years two of my sisters and I paid my other sister to take care of her since she (sister) had recently lost her husband (the one I mentioned before that was on 60 minutes due to the public sector collective bargaining bill in Ohio). My sister in Ohio has been with a man since (they keep finances separate and never got married. He (Oscar) was a surgeon in Paraguay and feared for his life when the communists came in. Oscar came to New York and passed papers, brought a wind breaker jacket with him and had a fold down bed. He studied for his medical license with an English translation book beside his medical book. He never became a surgeon again and just got his MD license. Still, he was but another example that with some perseverance beat the odds.

She (mom) died when I was 46. My father made $125 week in the 70s and my mother sewed for a clothing store and was a beautician. I still remember walking into the shop (part of the home) and seeing nickels, penneys, quarters and dimes on the counter. I asked her why the change and she said that was all the women could pay. She also did the hair for the local funeral home. She became a beautician in Chicago by living with a couple who she fed, did laundry and general housework outside of her beauty school hours where she walked 17 blocks to and from school and so that is how she paid for her schooling. She made my sisters and I clothes to wear and probably 15 years before she died she saved hair she cut if long enough and made wigs for cancer patients by sewing the hair. I think there were maybe 7 in the country that could do that? She was very talented and would have been wealthier, but her grandfather was a banker and when the depression hit he allowed all the people their money...even his partner absorbing the debt which he knew would cost him, but thought it was the right thing to do. She was very talented and dad was an athlete and salesman.

There are very many that had it much worse than I have...very many, but people are not owed anything and there is a certain amount of pride in not being a burden. I say that and have three very different children with different levels of success. I just believe more of the youth need a bit more drive.
the youth today have plenty of drive. plenty plenty drive. They are taking the tools they have and the world we have bequeathed them and making the best of it. They are doing things you could never imagine and using their imagination to build an income from it. I am in awe of their creativity.

We have all be part of some huge task Everyone who works hard always think they (or the people they see) are the only ones working hard and there are others somewhere just loafing around enjoying freebies. It's a fallacy. Period. Across the country, are there isolated individuals doing so. yes!.
Are there humans in large numbers doing so? no. unless there is something structurally wrong with the economy as a whole. (.e.g we are in a recession or recovering from one, or we are going through structural changes in the economy e.g. when factories left cities in 70s, and left US in the 90s and 00s)

I have lived long enough to hear people talking about young black men just loitering around rather than working. Somehow when the economy improved and unemployment dropped, the unemployment in that population dropped too. So all along, it was never they didn't want to work. It is just the economy itself was far from full employment and they for reasons i won't go into here, are usually the first to be fired and last to be hired. This idea that some large number of people in the US just want to loaf around collect freebie is a fallacy.
 
the youth today have plenty of drive. plenty plenty drive. They are taking the tools they have and the world we have bequeathed them and making the best of it. They are doing things you could never imagine and using their imagination to build an income from it. I am in awe of their creativity.

We have all be part of some huge task Everyone who works hard always think they (or the people they see) are the only ones working hard and there are others somewhere just loafing around enjoying freebies. It's a fallacy. Period. Across the country, are there isolated individuals doing so. yes!.
Are there humans in large numbers doing so? no. unless there is something structurally wrong with the economy as a whole. (.e.g we are in a recession or recovering from one, or we are going through structural changes in the economy e.g. when factories left cities in 70s, and left US in the 90s and 00s)

I have lived long enough to hear people talking about young black men just loitering around rather than working. Somehow when the economy improved and unemployment dropped, the unemployment in that population dropped too. So all along, it was never they didn't want to work. It is just the economy itself was far from full employment and they for reasons i won't go into here, are usually the first to be fired and last to be hired. This idea that some large number of people in the US just want to loaf around collect freebie is a fallacy.
So you disagree with Bob somewhat. No problem, I have no idea what a large number is? I remember going to Burger King in Cocoa Beach where I had a condo and only the manager was working. I asked if the help called off work and the manager said, nobody wants to work and he couldn't hire anyone. That was probably 20 years ago. A son being a previous manager at a store and then trying to make it on his own with a semi business went to work at Chrysler. He said after his first week that he knew why they never made money...dumb managers and lazy workers. If there is any unemployment, does that mean that all able bodied workers are already working and only those with some physical or mental issues create the number. One of my sisters was a math teacher and she could definitely support that students on the whole don't have the work ethic of years earlier. There is no question that jobs requiring labor have been replaced and NAFTA started the move outside the country, but there is work that some could do and they do see it beneath them in many cases...work even going to trade school to put themselves in a better position. Kim worked inside a school in Indiana and was able to see first hand the students up close for a couple of years and how they treated the academic portion with the loans they got relative to buying everything except books...computers and such.
 
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you. you reflexively defend every smart and stupid thing this President does. No. some things he does are disastrous and will NEVER ever achieve the stated aim, now or in the future. It's just stupidity honestly
Just the smart things. Point to a stupid thing I defended to back up your claim.
 
Just the smart things. Point to a stupid thing I defended to back up your claim.
maybe I am wrong. I thought you backed his broad tariffs. Honestly, I personally dont care who gets the win. for once, I am glad Trump easily changes his mind. That was one ill-advised policy
 
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You quoted two articles stating that there are prostitutes in NW Indiana. Neither article mentions that those prostitutes are of Chinese ethnicity. Pretty sure that prostitutes come from all ethnic backgrounds.

So the question remains; was your original post motivated by xenophobia or racism?
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My bad. I thought Hong Kong was in China👀
 
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the youth today have plenty of drive. plenty plenty drive. They are taking the tools they have and the world we have bequeathed them and making the best of it. They are doing things you could never imagine and using their imagination to build an income from it. I am in awe of their creativity.

We have all be part of some huge task Everyone who works hard always think they (or the people they see) are the only ones working hard and there are others somewhere just loafing around enjoying freebies. It's a fallacy. Period. Across the country, are there isolated individuals doing so. yes!.
Are there humans in large numbers doing so? no. unless there is something structurally wrong with the economy as a whole. (.e.g we are in a recession or recovering from one, or we are going through structural changes in the economy e.g. when factories left cities in 70s, and left US in the 90s and 00s)

I have lived long enough to hear people talking about young black men just loitering around rather than working. Somehow when the economy improved and unemployment dropped, the unemployment in that population dropped too. So all along, it was never they didn't want to work. It is just the economy itself was far from full employment and they for reasons i won't go into here, are usually the first to be fired and last to be hired. This idea that some large number of people in the US just want to loaf around collect freebie is a fallacy.
Look, there are kids, black and white, who have grown up in homes in which they have never, not once in 18 years, seen an adult in the household get up and go to work at a job in the morning. Call it what you want, but those kids have zero work ethic.
 
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I asked if the help called off work and the manager said, nobody wants to work and he couldn't hire anyone.
anytime a business says this. It is ALWAYS they are not paying enough. Why should someone come to work for peanuts when there are better uses of their time. If you pay enough, you will get someone that wants to work. If you pay high enough, you will even get quality workers. This example here is not a failure of individuals, its a failure of business and the larger economy.

I will give you another example. someone noticed how Amazon delivery seems to be loosing their package, or just tossing it carelessly on their porch or not even delivering at all. The person started bemoaning how todays workers are crappy. Again, if you truly examine it, it isn't that the workers are crappy. UPS still delivers, and the guy comes well dressed, delivers your packages. USPS delivers, the guy shows up every day. WHy is amazon delivery the issue. Again, it comes to to crappy pay, Amazon is using low paid 3rd party that efffecively is getting paid minimum wage by the time you factor in the cost of maintaining their own personal car they are using for delivery. And thats why you get crappy service.

The idea that some people over there are just lazy and are not doing anything s exactly that, a widely held fallacy that falls apart once you seriously start examining it.
 
maybe I am wrong. I thought you backed his broad tariffs. Honestly, I personally dont care who gets the win. for once, I am glad Trump easily changes his mind. That was one ill-advised policy
If policy is judged by results, was it one ill-advised policy? The verdict is still out, but it appears that the policy opened the doors to better trade with at least 75 countries and may lead to them increasing their defense all the while it may be breaking China. Too early to call it a massive win, but based upon results it didn't appear to be a poor policy. Perhaps, people didn't understand leverage or what was really going on? It certainly isn't checkmate, but one could definitely call it "check".
 
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anytime a business says this. It is ALWAYS they are not paying enough. Why should someone come to work for peanuts when there are better uses of their time. If you pay enough, you will get someone that wants to work. If you pay high enough, you will even get quality workers.
They should come to work because they need 1) a job to have any money 2)and are paid what the market pays for the job expectations 3)because their skill set matches the skills expected 4)because Burger King is not meant to be a lifelong job, but to enhance skills for a better job. Kids in Cocoa Beach (Burger King) also skipped school when the surf was up and we can look at education data and see there is a pool of people that had no motivation before they were not employed. If you paid more money as you suggest either the group you are soliciting doesn't have the skills to match for the job or if the pay is better than they currently are getting while employed they just take that job and which still leaves behind those without the skill sets needed.

Businesses exist to make money. They don't exist to care for children outside their own. This is capitalism, not socialism, and capitalism historically has raised the tide for all boats. AGain, there must not be enough incentive to do something they don't want to do and apparently they can survive doing what they want to do. Now that is how I see it for much of that population which probably correlates with academic outcomes as a single predictor which is also correlated with single parent homes...all available to each individual, but taken advantage of by very few due to culture which then is a whole another thread on money already spent and consequent results of which would take more time that I would care to provide to this site...at this time...
 
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If policy is judged by results, was it one ill-advised policy? The verdict is still out, but it appears that the policy opened the doors to better trade with at least 75 countries and may lead to them increasing their defense all the while it may be breaking China. Too early to call it a massive win, but based upon results it didn't appear to be a poor policy. Perhaps, people didn't understand leverage or what was really going on? It certainly isn't checkmate, but one could definitely call it "check".
Based upon results It didn't appear to be a bad policy? What results do you speak of?
 
Based upon results It didn't appear to be a bad policy? What results do you speak of?
The results are the "check" and not checkmate if you ever played chess. There are up to 75 countries coming to negotiations. Whatever the degree of improvement, it is MORE than any president since WW2 and perhaps not confined to trade, but maybe defense as well. If defense comes into play...who will the countries buy their defense? That would save tax payers money on defense and make money for the USA with increased weapons bought . Like I said the game isn't over, but I certainly like the first half production
 
The results are the "check" and not checkmate if you ever played chess. There are up to 75 countries coming to negotiations. Whatever the degree of improvement, it is MORE than any president since WW2 and perhaps not confined to trade, but maybe defense as well. If defense comes into play...who will the countries buy their defense? That would save tax payers money on defense and make money for the USA with increased weapons bought . Like I said the game isn't over, but I certainly like the first half production
Of course I believe whatever trump says. You do too.

The countries that we KNOW have actually reached out are saying they are getting nothing back. Who is going to negotiate all these deals. If what you say is actually true the admin doesn't have the bandwidth the do all these negotiations.

But improvement isn't important. Celebrate the effort. Participation trophy.
 
Of course I believe whatever trump says. You do too.

The countries that we KNOW have actually reached out are saying they are getting nothing back. Who is going to negotiate all these deals. If what you say is actually true the admin doesn't have the bandwidth the do all these negotiations.

But improvement isn't important. Celebrate the effort. Participation trophy.
There is NOTHING at this point in time that says improvement will not happen. On the contrary, most would agree that improvement is more probable than not...of which I agree. Still I recognize this is "check" and not "Checkmate" since there still remains more movement
 
There is NOTHING at this point in time that says improvement will not happen. On the contrary, most would agree that improvement is more probable than not...of which I agree. Still I recognize this is "check" and not "Checkmate" since there still remains more movement
Really? Nothing?

Not one deal signed. We don't know if 75 countries are looking to negotiate. We only know trump, the purveyor of truth, says there is.

What level improvement is ok with you? Remember, this is supposed to go way beyond negotiating better trade deals. It's supposed to bring gazzilions of dollars back to the US. It's also supposed to bring gabillions of manufacturing jobs back. Companies building new plants requiring hundreds of millions of dollars in investment based on..........wait for it.........trade and tariff policies that changed YET AGAIN YESTERDAY. What will tomorrow bring? Who the hell knows? You think companies are going to commit Capitol to new factories with this kind of uncertainty? Not to mention they can't even get the plants built before the next election......when everything is likely to change?

Trump is trying to run the world like he runs his companies. By the seat of his pants with an iron fist. Threats and intimidation. Keep everybody guessing. Problem is, these other countries don't work for him. Corporations don't work for him. The markets don't like uncertainty. Tariffs shouldn't be based on trade deficits. Meanwhile, MAGA is celebrating when the market goes up and saying it means nothing when it goes down. You and you're are celebrating because trump tells you countries are negotiating and claiming some kind of victory. This is a freakin joke.
 
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