The president just keeps introducing more chaos.
  • @[email protected]
    80•12 days ago

    At some point tarrifs tariffs won’t matter anymore because at that tariff height the goods could just as well not be available at all.

    • NaibofTabrEnglish
      66•12 days ago

      Yep, we are watching the active teardown of the global trade infrastructure that has been built over the past 5 decades.

      That international trade has been the single largest deterrent to international warfare. Neighbors who actively trade are far less likely to go to war with each other. Powerful nations have an interest in exploiting less powerful nations economically rather than conquer them militarily - it’s cheaper, and you can extract value from the exploited nation over an extended period rather than gain some short-term value while destroying the source of that value. The exploited nations benefit by not being attacked, and may have more flexible options for improving their position economically (i.e. Japan in the electronics market in the 1980s).

      The Trump administration looks like when a new manager takes over a functional team, doesn’t know how anything works, can’t be bothered to try to understand, and just starts breaking established processes to prove that they’re in charge.

      • Ænima
        2•11 days ago

        The Trump administration looks like when a new manager takes over a functional team, doesn’t know how anything works, can’t be bothered to try to understand, and just starts breaking established processes to prove that they’re in charge.

        Except in places I’ve worked where this happened the new boss was on probation and could more easily be let go for poor performance. We tried something like that with tRump with two impeachments.

        There’s no such thing as a recall election for the president, at least not for 4-years. And that’s a long time from now. Took only 80 days to get here from inauguration. We, and the global markets, will never recover if they leave it to us to fix it. Rest of the world can go on without us.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•12 days ago

        China will suffer from reduced sales. The rest of the world except the US will reap the benefits of this.

        • Lit
          5•11 days ago

          lol no, American will still buy China goods and pay the higher tax (tariff which is basically GST/VAT) rate to Trump due to lack of alternatives. In fact sales are going up because people are stockpiling. Even other countries like Skorea, Samsung made record sales in US due to tariffs announcement.

    • @[email protected]
      25•12 days ago

      One r two fs in tariff

      Since we’re apparently going to have to be spelling it all the time now.

      • @[email protected]
        9•12 days ago

        Ah, yes.

        I’d rather like to forget about it all until I can do more than just avoid American products

        • Lit
          2•11 days ago

          American products will be ridiculously overpriced now due to Trump charge a tax (tariff) to americans who import goods from china and other countries. No one will be able to afford them.