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> Trump has finally ended America’s exorbitant privilege.
> The president’s erratic leadership style, which reminds me of the guy who pulls off his steering wheel so that the other driver will be forced to swerve, is now endangering his country’s currency and equity values, as has always been the case in other, non-exceptional political economies with this much turmoil.
Episode 737: Trump's Technology Tariffs
I have been listening to the PC Pro podcast recently and it has a good conversational non shouty feel to it. Episode 737 covers the supply chain uncertainty surrounding the recent US #tarrif decisions. Worth a listen.
Trump is about to unleash a new wave of inflation with his trade war against China
He says it’s worth it because China is destroying the economy and flooding the US with drugs
But who shut down factories, busted unions and got millions hooked on opioids? The corporate executives on Wall Street. We’re not confused about who our real enemy is!
I'm already seeing "we're raising our prices in US X% and eating the rest of the #Tarrif "
As an American: Fuck that.
Put an explicit bullet point on the last step of checkout that says "Trump Administration Tariff", put a little (?) with the explanation, and charge every single American the full value of the Tariff until it's gone.
It's last call
To do your shopping
At the last mall
"The Market Is in a New Mode: ‘Sell Everything American’ The simultaneous selloff in stocks, bonds and the dollar is a concerning sign of distress, but the critical indicators aren't flashing red yet."
#premarket
#investing
#redwave
#Republicans
#tarrif
#stigma
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-market-is-in-a-new-mode-sell-everything
"The Market Is in a New Mode: ‘Sell Everything American’ The simultaneous selloff in stocks, bonds and the dollar is a concerning sign of distress, but the critical indicators aren't flashing red yet."
#premarket
#investing
#redwave
#Republicans
#tarrif
#stigma
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-market-is-in-a-new-mode-sell-everything-american-dda2ade4
#Trump and #Musk and AI, oh my?
From my favorite historian pundit, Z:
… no serious economist is going to endorse [Trump's] approach to tariffs. No unserious one, either, probably. So, where did the White House come up with this formula? Well, if you put the phrase "balance bilateral trade deficits" into AI engines, the administration's approach (or some close approximation) is what you get. That is the case with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude. If you put the phrase into Grok, you get the EXACT formula the White House used. In other news, Grok is the AI platform owned by... Elon Musk.
Guess you don't need the terminator to destroy the world. Simple AI is enough.
Scroll down to "Fuzzy Math" at this link, but the whole 4,000 word article will clear up the whole muddy mess.
I propose the following motion to the United Nations: Every Member State agrees on that they will introduce a legislation that Cannabis legally sold on the members markets must have at least a THC-A ratio equal to to the mean of US #tarrif imposed in last 12 months.
>> #Kremlin has you trying to convince #Americans that there was never any kind of investigation at all into #J6…
There's a continuum between none, half-hearted, and full-throated. As usual, you go for extreme black & white and fail to see grey — #BidenCouldDoNoWrong & #SchumerCanDoNoWrong.
>> pay well for all of the effort you put in working towards ending democratic rule-of-law…
Effort is #Schumer's 
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/13/nx-s1-5327600/house-democrats-outrage-spending
Does any Biden #tarrif money flow into your pocket?
I predict #unemployment claims begin to rise in the second quarter, snowballing into the summer as the #Trump administration continues their flailing #blitzkrieg, drunk on the false perception of irresponsible power.
#premarket
#investing
#tarrif
#tariffs
#recession
Not so sleepy #Cymru after all. #Fishguard just down the road from me.
A story I will write one day is the role #PembrokeDock plays in circumventing #UK #Trade & #Tarrif barriers. #EU 
& #Eire 
I have #Photographs 
#moley #mole (old timer) 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/26/stena-line-ferry-death-fishguard-rosslare-europort-gardai-ntwnfb?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
I'd just like to say, #VoortmanBakery make a fine made in #Canada vanilla wafers. Store was out of Nutella.
Well, they had some #Nutella cookies made in Italy, but that's not what I was looking for.
Get them before the #tarrif!
Fascinating idea by @doctorow about the trade wars inspired by #Trump
Meeting a #Tarrif with a Tarrif isn't going to help #Canadians however what Cory suggests here could:
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/1100-a-weird-way-to-win-the-trade-war-with-trump/
More importantly, it might hurt the backers of the chaos coming out of the USA since Jan 20th.
/c @pluralistic
US companies brace for severe supply chain turmoil, warn consumers that steep price hikes are inevitable.
MF isn't even in office yet, and already the idiotic plan his incurious fatuity insists upon is undermining families, farmers, food workers, and the economy.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/27/trump-tariffs-policies-prices #tarrif #stupidity #inflation
@GottaLaff and any others who wish to...
Please, please steal the following graphic and plaster it wherever you can, as often as you'd like, and as many times as you'd like. I happily put it into the public domain, so use it any way that suits its purpose.
It is absolute nonsense to think that any #tarrif EVER has ultimately been paid for by anyone other than the #American #taxpayer .
