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Not surprising. That's what they were already doing before Trump trashed the previous deal! 🤣

The quote is from Riclag, not Waltz! 🙂

In the MAGA alternate universe, he's a victim! 🤣

My source is an official investigation followed by a plea deal. Your source is a crap video!

You are making stuff up again, while at the same time deflecting. Several posters who are critical to Trump have expressed support for reducing drug prices and ending the current scam (me, for example). Provided, of course, it actually happens.

The current production increase was announced in June 2024 under Biden! Say thank you! Saudi Arabia to ramp up oil production capacity in the next 3 years - energy minister Nirmal Narayanan 06 June 2024 https://www.arabnews.com/node/2524906/business-economy

It confirms you have nothing! 🤣

And here's one reason (the other being OPEP) 🙂 https://www.bea.gov/data/gdp/gross-domestic-product

From your link. 🤣 To be clear, the monthly job reports and the BED data do not measure exactly the same thing, and the BLS also publishes another dataset called the quarterly census of employment and wages. Each of these reports excludes certain categories of jobs or industries like railroads, government, self-employment, agriculture, etc.

This will certainly incite Iran to drop his nuclear program! 🙂 Trump’s trip to Saudi Arabia raises the prospect of US nuclear cooperation with the kingdom https://apnews.com/article/civilian-nuclear-program-saudi-arabia-trump-iran-be8697a1890d0158cef57babb47e7583

I knew you had nothing! 😆

If Putin comes, Zelinski should be worried. Putin will not come to Istanbul if Trump doesn't come (and vice versa). Moreover, I would assume that both won't come just to face a failure. If they come, it is quite possible that they may agree before on an outcome (favouring Russia, of course), and then try to force it on Zelinski (as usual).

The art of the retreat! 😆

Thanks to decisions made last year by Saudi Arabia and OPEC to increase their production. Meanwhile, U.S. crude oil production is lower than it was at the end of 2024! 🙂

Make Bone Saws Great Again! 🤣

What scientific studies have been showing for years is correct! 🙂 There's no reason to oppose his claims when they are supported by scientific evidence. The problem is when his claims are contradicted by scientific evidence.

Ridiculous debunked claim again! FD-1023 anyone? 🤣

Lol! It's the post I quoted.

Why is it that you cannot open any link? It's not my link, it's Mike Hunt's link. I just copied and pasted it. 🤣 I don't think there is a spell on me, but to make sure, try to open the link from his post.

B.S. I did not cheery pick anything. That's the latest available list of polls about the economy by RCP, a RW leaning site. And I always put a link so that other people can check it. 🤣 Yes, approval ratings vary over time according to respondents' perceptions. The proof being that the same polls were showing a positive approval two months ago!

I agree with the author. Economic issues related to China must be addressed, but Trump is doing it in the wrong way. I cannot read the article as it is under paywall, but the title suggests it may be interesting too! 🙂 Trump’s China Deal Makes Sense. How He Got Here Doesn’t. The president’s tactics undercut his own rationales, while in some ways treating China better than allies https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trumps-china-deal-makes-sense-how-he-got-here-doesnt-c42738a7?mod=hp_lead_pos4

Please address your complaints to Murdoch and the editorial team of the WSJ. 🙂 And stop putting words in my mouth, as usual. I already posted in that thread that I support lowering prices of drugs (if it actually gets implemented).

Interesting editorial from one of Murdoch's paper. The Great Trump Tariff Rollback The President started a trade war with Adam Smith. He lost. By The Editorial Board May 12, 2025 5:44 pm ET As with last week’s modest British agreement, the China deal is more surrender than Trump victory. Apart from the tariff rollback, neither side announced any broader concessions on the substantive trade issues that weigh on the U.S.-China relationship. Those include China’s barriers to American firms, especially in services such as digital and financial, and its chronic intellectual-property theft. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-china-trade-deal-tariffs-donald-trump-xi-jinping-a561d16b https://archive.ph/GzlI6

Says the article specifically, and the literature on technological catching-up in general, since. Perez, C., Soete, L., 1988. Catching-up in technology: entry barriers and windows of opportunity. Of course, if China decides to invest in it, it's only a question of time before they catch-up. The added difficulty is that while a faulty car engine may generally just stop the car, an airplane may fall. So beta testing is a bit difficult to manage.

Contrary to popular belief, it may be easier for latecomers to catch-up with new technologies than with established ones, because of the accumulated experience and know-how of incumbents. In particular about design and production processes. They can do some reverse engineering, but can hardly reproduce those processes because they are complex, based on experience, and not observable. It's easier when incumbents don't have much more experience, such as in the case of EV or 4G/5G technologies.