This season's the writers' room has given us a great choose-your-adventure plot. It's what Krugman cautions against, trying to see method in Donmentia.
Here is my entry: Once I saw that Russia got no tariffs, it became clear that Trump is acting consistently, <snark> After all, the only "goods" we import from Russian are Republican Operatives.
So here is the strategic plan... If he has Canada, then when Trump returns Alaska to her rightful owner, the Red Army can sweep down from Juneau through Canada to retake Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. And hold referenda under FSB supervision...
- the failure to give individuals and local decision makers the information the needed craft cost effective rules for lockdowns and closures (and push back is needed against too-frightened citizens and groups)
- the ridiculous harping on the vaccines not going to kill you instead of their benefits
…and then Trump will 'fire' at least Jerome Powell, and more likely the others, and while that's chewed-on by the courts, worse will happen
…which will be blamed on trans immigrant woke D.E.I. traitors, 'EVEN NOW YOU WOULD NOT HAVE US NULLIFY THEIR "CITIZENSHIPS"! WHEN THEY DESERVE NOTHING MORE THAN A TRIP TO EL SALVADOR?'.
But don't worry, Mr Trump will be _fine_…and isn't that all that matters?
Side note - the buttons for the heat in my car recently started having random effects on the actual functioning of the heater. It's a bit challenging to operate it now. I can sympathize with the Fed.
There must be more to life than buying more cheap products from China especially. Were you opposed to the 1800’s tariffs that helped build the U.S. manufacturing? Thought you were in favor of that. We have lost a lot of manufacturing to certain countries. It is time to take a breather and decided what manufacturing we can recover, especially for high tech products. What manufacturing are we going to give up totally, and what are the consequences of that. If our major export is agricultural products does that mean we are turning into a third world country?
I understand that lots of politician are too [fill in the blank] to undertint that the trade deficit is an I-S gap, but isn't AI supposed to be ... intelligent? Surely the Lerner Theorem that tariffs are a tax on exports is in it's training set.
By eliminating the rule of law, Trump will scare off foreign investment, thus slashing the trade deficit. Will the US simply live with 30% lower investment, or maybe increase savings dramatically at the cost of much lower consumption? Either way, isolation will work just as well for the US as it did for 19th-century China and Japan.
Russia and North Korea are conspicuously absent from Trump's tariff list.
This season's the writers' room has given us a great choose-your-adventure plot. It's what Krugman cautions against, trying to see method in Donmentia.
Here is my entry: Once I saw that Russia got no tariffs, it became clear that Trump is acting consistently, <snark> After all, the only "goods" we import from Russian are Republican Operatives.
So here is the strategic plan... If he has Canada, then when Trump returns Alaska to her rightful owner, the Red Army can sweep down from Juneau through Canada to retake Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. And hold referenda under FSB supervision...
Next Season on The Don...
Scott Bessent failed the Trump Test: If you work for him*, you're also a moron.
*Dr. Fauci gets a pass, for obvious and heroic reasons.
The disastrous mis-performance of CDC,
- the failure to give individuals and local decision makers the information the needed craft cost effective rules for lockdowns and closures (and push back is needed against too-frightened citizens and groups)
- the ridiculous harping on the vaccines not going to kill you instead of their benefits
means Fauci does not get a pass, either.
…and then Trump will 'fire' at least Jerome Powell, and more likely the others, and while that's chewed-on by the courts, worse will happen
…which will be blamed on trans immigrant woke D.E.I. traitors, 'EVEN NOW YOU WOULD NOT HAVE US NULLIFY THEIR "CITIZENSHIPS"! WHEN THEY DESERVE NOTHING MORE THAN A TRIP TO EL SALVADOR?'.
But don't worry, Mr Trump will be _fine_…and isn't that all that matters?
Side note - the buttons for the heat in my car recently started having random effects on the actual functioning of the heater. It's a bit challenging to operate it now. I can sympathize with the Fed.
I'll bet you don't don't predict, and tell people what you predict, about whether your next adjustment will be toward hotter or colder. :)
There must be more to life than buying more cheap products from China especially. Were you opposed to the 1800’s tariffs that helped build the U.S. manufacturing? Thought you were in favor of that. We have lost a lot of manufacturing to certain countries. It is time to take a breather and decided what manufacturing we can recover, especially for high tech products. What manufacturing are we going to give up totally, and what are the consequences of that. If our major export is agricultural products does that mean we are turning into a third world country?
I understand that lots of politician are too [fill in the blank] to undertint that the trade deficit is an I-S gap, but isn't AI supposed to be ... intelligent? Surely the Lerner Theorem that tariffs are a tax on exports is in it's training set.
By eliminating the rule of law, Trump will scare off foreign investment, thus slashing the trade deficit. Will the US simply live with 30% lower investment, or maybe increase savings dramatically at the cost of much lower consumption? Either way, isolation will work just as well for the US as it did for 19th-century China and Japan.
Will it scare off passive capital inflow? THAT would be scary!
Why would anybody think that the US is a safe heaven? Whoever can, will surely leave.