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I'd like to try some of your Stash Frank if you can ship across state lines.
Ricardo is dead my friend.
When you said "Lil Ricky" I thought you were referring to Desi Arnaz Jr. And he is still alive.
Desi Sr and Jr. were never spokesmen for Chrysler.
And neither was Frank Cannon. Are you day drinking?
President Donald Trump has indicated that he is willing to slap tariffs on every Chinese good imported to the U.S. should the need arise."I'm ready to go to 500," the president told CNBC's Joe Kernen in a "Squawk Box" interview.The reference is to the dollar amount of Chinese imports the U.S. accepted in 2017 — $505.5 billion to be exact, compared to the $129.9 billion the U.S. exported to China, according to Census Bureau data.https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-says-apos-apos-ready-100900482.html
It isn't just the crap you buy at Wal Mart. The easy ability to import inexpensive goods has caused a boom in small business reselling those goods. I like to use the example of women's clothing botiques. They seem to be popping up all over the place. Within a block of my office, three or four are open and booming. All of these are locally owned by middle class families. Without sites to import at low prices like Alibaba, they likely wouldn't have been able to start up. So it isn't just the cost of goods you directly buy that are impacted, but local businesses as well. I challenge everything to take a ten minute drive around your town and spot every locally owned business that opened in the past 5 years. I will bet a vast majority get most of their inventory from imports.
The MAGA-bleep that post on this forum will just never understand the benefits of trade like this, resellers and such.
As you know, I am hardly a “MAGA-bleepâ€....but the trade imbalance has been so ridiculously out of whack for decades, that we needed a president to rein that back in and push a more America first viewpoint. And it needs to be pushed until we aren’t as reliant on all that cheap Chinese shit and some of those industries return to our shores....and yes it will be somewhat painful for all sides of the equation, but we must remove ourselves, to whatever extent we can, from the possibility of being bent over the barrel.
The thing people don’t seem to understand...is that in a true free market economy you’ll never ever have perfectly balanced trade with other nations. There will always be something we want more of from one country than they want to import from us and the other way around.
But nobody could expect you magatards to be intelligent about economics.Good lord are you dumb.
DING DING DING !!! WE HAVE A WINNER !!!It baffles me to no end to hear others expecting a nation with a standard of living one-fourth that of the United States to purchase the same amount of goods from us that we purchase from them.
Currency War Breaks Out After Trump Accuses China and Europe of ManipulationPresident Donald Trump changed the conversation on Friday from trade war to currency war when he tweeted that China and the European Union are “manipulating their currencies and interest rates lower.â€Wall Street’s top currency analyst, Jens Nordvig, told Bloomberg that “Trump’s rhetoric over the last 24 hours is certainly shifting this from a trade war to a currency war.â€
Just this March......Kudlow: Mr. President, tariffs are really tax hikesPresident Trump genuinely believes that his steel and aluminum tariffs will save thousands of blue collar jobs.Steel and aluminum may win in the short term, but steel and aluminim users and consumers will lose. In fact tariff hikes are really tax hikes, Larry Kudlow writes.https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/03/kudlow-mr-president-tariffs-are-really-tax-hikes.html
But even if tariffs save every one of the 140,000 or so steel jobs in America, it puts at risk 5 million manufacturing and related jobs in industries that use steel. These producers now have to compete in hyper-competitive international markets using steel that is 20 percent above the world price and aluminum that is 7 to 10 percent above the price paid by our foreign rivals.In other words, steel and aluminum may win in the short term, but steel and aluminum users and consumers will lose. In fact, tariff hikes are really tax hikes.‎ Some of those 5 million jobs will be put in harm's way. And if they sell less to foreigners, the trade deficit goes up, not down.
Looks like Trump does not want to limit his economic war to be limited to trade and tariffs, but a currency war as well.This ought to be fun as the consequences of this begin to unravel upon our heads - the worlds largest debtor nation with nearly a hundred trillion in debt with a fiat currency based on borrowing more debt and deficit spending to the tune of trillions each year.We are only afloat because the rest of the nations in the world are worse off. But once that reserve currency status ends and the world moves away from the Dollar - the real fun will begin. Russia and China dumping treasury notes might just be the beginning.
