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Unexpectedly, if you've been in a coma for the past year. Let's raise tariffs again.
by ChoGGi 8mo ago
Unexpectedly, if you've been in a coma for the past year.
Let's raise tariffs again.
- jacknews 8mo agoExactly, massive price increases with the fake tariffs, hiring freezes because 'AI can do it all', who knew these things might affect jobs?
- Andrex 8mo ago"As long as it's just theoretical I don't have to feel bad. Just keep plowing ahead and breaking things." Well it's about to turn from theory to reality very soon.
- baq 8mo agotariffs on goods are mostly noise. if there were tariffs on services, though...
- wholinator2 8mo agoWhat do you mean noise? American people pay 96% of them with an average cost of $1000+ per family over the last year. To the vast majority of people that's waaayyyy above the noise floor.
- learingsci 8mo ago[flagged]
- mchaver 8mo agoDo you really intend to make such a blanket statement? If taxes are evil then it follows that any public service (police, roads, airports, hospitals, public education, libraries, publicly funded research) is evil since they are funded by taxes.
- learingsci 8mo agoOk, only tarrifs.
- esseph 8mo ago> Taxes are evil I've got some shocking news for you but we live in a society.
- xyzal 8mo agoAs an European, I would actually love tariffs on American services. Kick them where it hurts.
- fragmede 8mo ago$0 * 1,000% still works out to be $0, unfortunately, so Facebook isn't going anywhere.
- stefanfisk 8mo agoEuropean advertisers would be the ones paying tariffs.
- TheGRS 8mo agoJust noise that puts people out of business and livelihood.
- baq 8mo ago[flagged]
- jazzypants 8mo agoDo you buy goods? Have you somehow not noticed the huge increases in prices for those goods?
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- kyoji 8mo agoWhat a head-in-the-sand comment. Are you very wealthy? Congrats! You can ignore the flames for a little longer than the rest of us.
- TheGRS 8mo agoAnd indeed they are doing just that! On top of a war that will also affect energy costs.
- abirch 8mo agoNot only that, Iran is attacking Saudi and friends infrastructure so that they have to use their capital there and not invest in the USA's AI nor government debt.
- jcranmer 8mo agoThe "unexpectedly" is because the people looking at more real-time (but more indirect) indicators were expecting jobs to increase by about 50k or so. It's rather more like someone going "based on the daily footfall numbers in my store, I expect sales to be up 1% this month" and the actual data being down 2%.
- butILoveLife 8mo ago[flagged]
- CoastalCoder 8mo agoI like your ethic of thinking critically regardless of who's in power. Sincere question: do we have any stats on how (party in office) correlates with (government publications containing lies and/or misleading info)?
- butILoveLife 8mo agoI don't know, but you may find it interesting to consider the 3 different types of probability(Karl Popper): Intuition/Psychological/Subjective: Like 'there is a 70% chance I go to the gym today'. (They are probably similar for both GOP and Dems) Subjective but relational: 'there is no clouds in the sky, so its unlikely to rain' (Trump's regime is more corrupt, so its likely to be more misleading than Obama) Objective: 'there is a 1/6 chance I roll a 5 on the dice'. (There is no objective way to know)