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Tariff rates have changed how many times in the past six months? Businesses need certainty if they are going to make long term investments.

fsckboy 1y ago
have you followed the news? it's been reported that after the period of changing tariffs, agreements have been reached for more US manufacturing, said agreements providing the certainty you are seeking.
- yongjik 1y ago
  If you believe that any agreements with Trump provide certainty, I have a bridge to sell. The rest of the world now knows that any promise made by the US government is not worth the paper it's signed on, and is planning accordingly.
  - fsckboy 1y ago
    the rest of the world is complaining bitterly. they would not be doing that if their solution was as simple and painless as you like to think
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    - ben_w 1y ago
      They said "planning accordingly", not "will have an easy painless time"? When my flight home from Stansted to Berlin was cancelled, and the replacement, and the airline's next free seat wasn't for another week, I definitely both planned accordingly *and* complained hard.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  > agreements have been reached for more US manufacturing Simple answer is we won't know for another year or two. These [1] are analogous to bookings. They could be bona fide. Or they could be DOGE figures. (We already know the project at the top of the list is being massively scaled back [2].) Taking a step back, there is currently zero signal in FDI [3][4]. [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-a-running-list-of-new-u-s-investment-in-president-trumps-second-term/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-a-r... [2] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/softbank-openai-a3dc57b4?st=7eCiQf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/softbank-openai-a3dc57b4?st=7eCi... [3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDIQ027S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDIQ027S [4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDNQ027S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDNQ027S

fsckboy 1y ago

have you followed the news? it's been reported that after the period of changing tariffs, agreements have been reached for more US manufacturing, said agreements providing the certainty you are seeking.

yongjik 1y ago
If you believe that any agreements with Trump provide certainty, I have a bridge to sell. The rest of the world now knows that any promise made by the US government is not worth the paper it's signed on, and is planning accordingly.
- fsckboy 1y ago
  the rest of the world is complaining bitterly. they would not be doing that if their solution was as simple and painless as you like to think
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  - ben_w 1y ago
    They said "planning accordingly", not "will have an easy painless time"? When my flight home from Stansted to Berlin was cancelled, and the replacement, and the airline's next free seat wasn't for another week, I definitely both planned accordingly *and* complained hard.
JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> agreements have been reached for more US manufacturing Simple answer is we won't know for another year or two. These [1] are analogous to bookings. They could be bona fide. Or they could be DOGE figures. (We already know the project at the top of the list is being massively scaled back [2].) Taking a step back, there is currently zero signal in FDI [3][4]. [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-a-running-list-of-new-u-s-investment-in-president-trumps-second-term/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/06/trump-effect-a-r... [2] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/softbank-openai-a3dc57b4?st=7eCiQf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/softbank-openai-a3dc57b4?st=7eCi... [3] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDIQ027S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDIQ027S [4] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDNQ027S https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDNQ027S