John Drake

Sells $100K Chinese made watches, Chinese made gold "endorsed" sneakers, creates fake for profit university, hawks bad wine, bankrupts casinos, and now operating a meme coin scam. What a guy.

Is GDP to gold then the determining factor?

As its Trump stated desire to gut the value of the dollar (he got it down to 29 during his first administration), you may get your wish.

I still don't get it. Thailand doesn't compare to the US according to your chart, per capita or otherwise. At the same time the UK isn't even on that list and the British pound has gone up from 43 to almost 44. I just don't get it. Trying to understand, but can you elaborate?

All these problems would disappear if Harvard would eliminate its schools/departments of humanities and social sciences.

Farang fatigue.

Question: why does the rising price of gold increase the value of the baht and how does Thailand export so much gold, when there is almost no gold mined in Thailand? I would think Thailand would import much more gold than it buys.

Did Grok write this?

Replay of Trump's first administration. Tax cut for billionaires, piling up record debt, and destroying the value of the dollar. "If you seek his monument, look around you."

Like the $100K Chinese made watches he sold the license to use his name on. Sleaze just oozes out of everything this slug does.

Big Beautiful Bill. Why does everything Trump creates sound gauche, vulgar, and childish?

Tallest midget.

Guess this explains the uptick in European tourists that TAT was bragging about yesterday.

Absolutely true.

How did a topic supposedly about European tourism to Thailand turn into yet another argument between potheads and boozers?

Might have something to do with the "old Allies" snuggling up to China as fast as they can.

Maybe not. It seems their predecessors didn't.

Why was it going backwards?

World War II commemorations are like a religion to many Europeans, especially the British. Frankly, it seems unhealthy to me, trying to compensate for present day inadequacy through constantly sanctifying events that occurred 80 to 86 years ago.

This is just a continuation of the stock market manipulation Trump engaged in during his first term. Remember when he first threatened tariffs against China then? The markets would drop and then there would be an announcement of "progress" and the markets would bounce back and soar. He did this over and over and over and over again, ramping up the stock market over time. BTW, Trump back then kept most of his investments in a "blind trust" which consisted almost entirely of S&P ETFs. So he only had to keep an eye out on one thing: pushing up the S&P. This gauche, narcissistic glutton is only going to take actions that enrich him and his family.

I live in Thailand. The most important factor for me is a strong dollar. And Trump is destroying the US dollar. Biden's policy of a strong dollar made me tangibly wealthier, while Trump is degrading my standard of living.

Island of strangers.

We're going to need it! Need to get a reading on the water level in the dams, too.

He's just a narcissistic agent of chaos who wants two things: 1) to be the center of attention every day and 2) to manipulate the government to increase his own wealth through a variety of shady deals and stock manipulation.

As inept as Thai officials can be, I expect to see Trump's even more incompetent negotiators get rolled by them.