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Bureau of Labor Statistics figures said the Consumer Price Index fell a seasonally adjusted 0.1 percent in March. That led to a 12-month inflation rate of 2.4 percent down from the February rate of 2.8 percent, according to CNBC. The core inflation rate, which excludes food and energy prices, was at 2.8 percent, the lowest core inflation rate since March 2021. In case you missed it...

FWIW, NX996 is from Macau, not the Mainland.

They sent a few hundred and have to take one back. Still winning bigly. It's on the Daily Caller landing page, including the removal of the deadline imposed by the lower court. Fox is blocked here do I can't tell if they've reported it.

If you believe that, you have no clue about cross border business and fair access to unbiased courts in the countries you do business in. Tariffs are just a lever to negotiate fair access to the courts (among 100 other factors that levels the playing field) For years, I've been reading about the ridiculous tariffs on imported wine and imported cars and the shabby, biased way foreign companies are treated in Thai courts. But nobody had a plan to address them. Until the Bad Orange Man.

Songkran 2023, from Sala Daeng BTS station. About 75% foreign tourists, spending their sweaty tourist money (right after Covid). That crowd went all up and down Silom and over to Lumpini Park. I don't participate, but I enjoy the heck out of watching people having fun.

And they rag on Trump for trying to end that kind of fooknuttery. One more example of countries wanting things one way.

Neither are Christmas sales in September. But things change.

Good cautionary tale, and also a good reason to always have some extra cash with you when you travel. I'm also a little easier on noobs who may not know the ins and outs (and the difference between a visa on arrival and an entry stamp). That's something you usually figure out after crossing multiple borders.

Imagine the tragedy if they gave the patient a drug that's not recommended for someone with those chromosomes, because someone wasn't clear about who they were treating. The sad thing is that, like the Covid mandates, you can't object on scientific grounds or based on personal freedoms and choice. Because those have been thrown out the window. You have to object on religious grounds.

It's the collective guilt of all the colonial powers, and it's not just Israel that's in a forever war. They're letting immigrants in from all over to atone for the perceived sins of colonialism. Forgetting that those sins were just the way of life at that point in history, and that the "oppressed" peoples probably kidnapped and enslaved as many Europeans as Africans. But they didn't advance like the West so they lost.

The yips? He just postponed. Now he's bringing a sledgehammer to every negotiation. They call that "strategic ambiguity".

In the immortal words of Homer Simpson: Doh.

The US economy has been on a debt driven sugar buzz from all the Bidenbucks being dumped into it. The real numbers aren't as great as the hype.

That's a feature of employment in the USA. Very few Americans with a job need a 60 day entry because if the company can spare you for more than 2 weeks, chances are they'll decide they didn't need you anyway. As much as I love Thailand and would love my friends and family to meet me there, I tell them the R/T is brutal, and jet lag will steal a few days of your holiday so best to stay closer to home.

I'd like Israel to quit lying, quit building illegal settlements and quit violating international laws with impunity. The USS Liberty incident is just one more example of a pattern of their impunity and thumbing their nose. And yes, I would like them to answer for deliberately killing a bunch of Americans. They're still dead 60 years later, and nobody has been held to account.

Are there nukes in play? Is the USA spending my tax money to fund one side or the other (or both)? Is it likely to go on for another 80 years? And did the Sudanese sink an American ship, kill dozens of American sailors then claim that they didn't see the bigass American flag during the many hours that they flew surveillance over it before attacking?

The national debt is absolutely related to trade imbalances. And directly related to the OP, which is, "What's the plan?" I don't refer to it as a tariff crisis. It's an opportunity.

Good question. I'm only replying to the post.

I don't know about him, but I'm interested in Israel because I don't see a way out of the morass that the UK put that region in after the World Wars. I can see an end to Ukraine war this year. But I fear Israel will still be fighting in 50 or 75 or 100 years, barring a complete ethnic cleanse of the disputed areas. They're in an intractable situation, and it could all go tits up if Iran gets a bunch of nukes.

Of course it was just a lie. Their explanation was manufactured after the fact. How did the penguins manage to export $1.4 million worth of goods to the USA in 2022? (World Bank numbers, reported by The Guardian and others) United States Product Exports and Imports to Heard Island and McDonald Isla 2022 | WITS Data https://wits.worldbank.org/

Someone catch me up. Is the minimum wage still 300 baht? I keep reading about proposals to increase it, but they never seem to go through. Or am I missing something?

A lot of times, that kind of limitation is specific to company policy as opposed to Microsoft dictates. My employers have often limited what I can do on company assets and through the company network. It's probably programmable by the network administrator. I got "the email" from Microsoft this past weekend and try to will move over to Teams as soon as I get to a location where the link isn't blocked like it is here in China. I'll be in Thailand next week and give it a whirl (assuming I can do it from Thailand and not the USA where my MS account is billed) The Skype features I rely on are caller ID set to my US cell number, and a per minute charge as opposed to a spendy subscription for a lot of features I don't need. I'm still waiting to hear from someone who has actually made the switch on a personal account (as opposed to a business account)

All I hear is screeching.

Other than that one Covid year, he increased the debt half as fast as Biden did. About the same rate as Obama. Not great, but better than Biden.

And others who think they're authors and geniuses, but they're not. They're being led around by the MSM. And it shows with some of the trigger words and phrases scattered through their lengthy screeches.