Tariffs Catch-All

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Trump woke up in a mood to tank the markets and relationship with our allies, apparently. Wonder if his night carousing with the top foreign and domestic holders of his meme coin last night encouraged this?
 
nycfan said:
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Trump woke up in a mood to tank the markets and relationship with our allies, apparently. Wonder if his night carousing with the top foreign and domestic holders of his meme coin last night encouraged this?
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nycfan said:
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Trump woke up in a mood to tank the markets and relationship with our allies, apparently. Wonder if his night carousing with the top foreign and domestic holders of his meme coin last night encouraged this?
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Just yesterday, a Trump voter mentioned to me that it looked like everything had calmed down on the tariff front. I said back, oh really? I had just come from Home Depot and bought three light fixtures, that I know a few weeks back were under $30 and I paid at least $50 for each. Made in China, don't even have to look.

But the amazing thing this morning with Trump's recent post, is that Wall Street really thought Trump was contained on Tariffs. Oopps.
 
genevabuck said:
The market manipulation couldn’t be more blatant.
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Seriously, just imagine if this had happened in May 2021:

1. Biden sells emoluments named Bidencoins to his uber wealthy supporters.
2. While serving as president of the United States, Biden hosts a massive party at his house in Delaware for the richest purchasers of his Bidencoins, many of whom are also among the most active shareholders in the US.
3. THE NEXT MORNING, Biden posts a series of tweets that send the market plummeting, which creates buying opportunities for those with massive cash holdings (i.e., the people who had been eating caviar with him the night before).

This is why I can't take people like Ramrouser seriously. We've never seen anything remotely like this. It's corruption and grift at an unlimited scale. Anyone who tries to defend it deserves to be ignored.
 
BlueSmoke said:
Just yesterday, a Trump voter mentioned to me that it looked like everything had calmed down on the tariff front. I said back, oh really? I had just come from Home Depot and bought three light fixtures, that I know a few weeks back were under $30 and I paid at least $50 for each. Made in China, don't even have to look.

But the amazing thing this morning with Trump's recent post, is that Wall Street really thought Trump was contained on Tariffs. Oopps.
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Republicans and conservatives keep maintaining this delusion that they have him under control, and then he does something they didn't anticipate out of impulse or vindictiveness or sheer buffoonery. They created this Frankenstein monster and then keep realizing over and over again that they can't really control him; nobody does, except maybe Putin and the Saudis and a few other wealthy authoritarians.
 
He is threatening targeting tariffs on imported iPhones, right?
One product from one company? How is that legal? (not that a legality figured into Trump’s constant stream of shit.)
Wouldn’t the tariff have to apply to all imported cell phones?
 
farce© said:
He is threatening targeting tariffs on imported iPhones, right?
One product from one company? How is that legal? (not that a legality figured into Trump’s constant stream of shit.)
Wouldn’t the tariff have to apply to all imported cell phones?
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Just you wait. Annnnnny moment now our board Republicans, lifelong steadfast adherents to true free market and small government conservatism that they are- and of, course, as they are all haters of hypocrisy- will be right along to join the rest of us in expressing outrage at this un-American policy proposal by the President of the United States to individually punish the most successful American company in history. Any moment now!
 
farce© said:
He is threatening targeting tariffs on imported iPhones, right?
One product from one company? How is that legal? (not that a legality figured into Trump’s constant stream of shit.)
Wouldn’t the tariff have to apply to all imported cell phones?
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Tariff authority is broad, and trade law is exceedingly narrow. I do not think that they could say, "tariffs on Apple" but they could say "tariffs on smart phones with [x, y, z] properties."

I suspect, though, that Trump will be happy to tariff all cell phones. He jawbones at Apple because he doesn't speak Korean.
 
Does he really believe "they" are going to "send" "their" companies into the US? Really? It's hard to keep up with the bullshit.

Hey Trump, have you noticed that every single time you mention tariffs (except to lift them), markets tank? What do you think is going to happen in 9 days?
 
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