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> this can help some US company These tariff threats are so broad. They are not aimed at encouraging this or that local industry. (And for the US you would nee
by creer 2y ago
> this can help some US company
These tariff threats are so broad. They are not aimed at encouraging this or that local industry. (And for the US you would need much more than a few percentage points of margin to encourage that.)
It feels like they are (1) threats. very crude threats. to get entire countries to change their policies a little this way or that - favoring the US a little more in exchange for dropping the threat. and (2) a source of govt revenue that doesn't look to the voters like income or capital gains tax. Although obviously it is - in the US everything ends up there.
- Jgrubb 2y agoOr 3) forcing the dip, buying the dip, lifting the conditions that caused the dip and profiting like nobody in history. This is all very simple. There is no plan, there is no us, there is no future. There is only him, now, and a revolving list of people trying to ride his coattails to more power for themselves.