Cameroni

Ooooh, I like this one.

Your wife told me.

Judging by his racial features and his small penis I'd say British.

Obviously it is the Socialists mis-managing the infrastructure, what else can it be? With the Partido Popular the electricity was glowing like a christmas tree, no issues. These socialists need to be thrown on the streets where they belong. Too busy prosecuting a man for kissing a woman, imagine.

This would never happen with Trump in charge.

Lol, no it won't. China's in much worse shape than the US. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-02-29/what-china-s-slowdown-means-for-us-all

No I don't. You did. It's in your link you shared already.

They tried to blow his head off. It's a dangerous job and doesn't pay well for a billionaire. Let him make a few extra bucks. He likes money, who doesn't?

Only due to Covid. Before then he outperformed the S&P Index.

From Real Estate to casinos, to bible to crypto, to social media, you got to hand it to him, he's a superb business man. Ok, not the casinos.

He hasn't lost it at all. He's multpilied it. His net worth is 5100 million US Dollars. Not bad.

Just give it time. Patience is a virtue. These things are not like making a buttered toast.

Why don't you write him a letter and tell him what you really think? He won't read it, but you'll feel a lot better.

There was an unusual shock to the bond market when Germany announced it would embark on a massive debt programme to finance rearmament. That set off the higher yields for Bonds. The tariffs added uncertainty in global trade. It has nothing to do with problem with the US economy itself. The US economy is the strongest and richest in the world. Safe as houses.

That's what you get when socialists run a country, everything goes to the dogs.

He does run the country and determines war and peace, global trade. He's not wrong.

Not at all, the price is just higher because of a little nervousness due to tariffs. But the underlying strength of the US economy is sound und reliable.

If you read that article it's just a pricing issue, nothing to do with the US economy being on shaky grounds. "It’s not as if investors are fleeing Treasuries wholesale. JPMorgan Asset Management sees them as a better bet than European government bonds. And this month’s 30-year Treasury auction showed that there’s appetite for the maturity — at the right price. The result allayed fears of a buyers’ strike, and long-bond yields have eased back from their recent peak." I've seen the US made maglite and the Chinese torch. The US maglite is more expensive, but a far higher quality product too.

But they do raise them, the EU lowered barriers internally, but raised tariffs against China. They don't. The US has the biggest bond market in the world. Both private and government. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2023/04/ranked-the-largest-bond-markets-in-the-world/ As the focus fades from ultra-cheap prodcuts, but consumers in places like the US are used to paying higher prices, and quality becomes more important, the hunger wages in Asia would lose their rationale.

Well, consumers in the US would not get the opportunity to pay lower prices, US made products will be more expensive, and cheaper imports will be impaired with tariffs, therefore more expensive still. The US consumer, whether he likes it or not, will have to pay higher prices. This could have very beneficial effects for workers in Asia.

You see, it's not just the US. As you previously said yourself, China has reduced its share of exports from 35% to19%, in fact most developed countries are gettting more and more uneasy with having to depend on a supply chain that is controlled by China, or even other countries. After Covid, countries realise the importance of self sufficiency and manufacturing. No doubt the Covid experience has moulded Trump's thinking on the manufacturing problem. So it's not just a US drive, it's a global drive towards more nationalist, self-sufficient economies. There are no questions whatsoever about the stability of the US economy, it is still the most stable and strongest economy in the world, which is why even if the dollar weakens, trust in the Dollar will continue. No banker in their right mind will want to get Chinese, Japanese or European currency instead of US dollars.

MFN is already gone. It's no more. The MFN principle, which requires each member of the World Trade Organization to apply the same tariff rates for all its WTO trading partners (unless a free trade agreement is in force) is now no longer followed by the USA. Retaliation from many US trading partners would, in effect, mean the end of the MFN principle and mark the beginning of prolonged bilateral negotiations for country-specific tariff rates and implementation schemes. This is what we are seeing now. This was probably not in Trump's mind at all, however, if you think about it, if the US gets used to paying fair prices for products, rather than ludicrously low prices, that will mean that the market for these ultra-low priced products will not be as big anymore. To compete China et al may need to focus on quality rather than price. The end result could be a reduction in the merciless epxloitation of factory workers in Asia. It has a lot to do with Trump's policies because if prodcuts will be made in the US they will be far more expensive and consumers will have to pay higher prices, whether they like it or not. I would suspect that the US will tie keeping the Dollar as reserve currency and permission to devalue the dollar to trade negotiations. Other nations would get better access to the US market if they agree to these terms, and after all the US is still the richest and strongest economy in the world, so the dollar would be inherently more trustworthy than the decrepit Euro Zone Euro, the even more decrepit Yen or the Chinese fraud currency.

Well, they clearly should have stayed with the father then.. Women initiate 75% of divorces.

No, not case closed. Norway, Finland and the Baltics, and Poland, do not have the highly strategic importance for Russian self defence that Ukraine has. In this regard Ukraine is far more important to Russia's ability to defend herself. If the great plains of Ukraine fall to NATO the defence of Russia would essentially be impossible. And no, Ukraine will not become a member of NATO. Russia would sooner invade all of Ukraine than see that happen. Because the loss of Ukraine would be tantamount to Russia being defenseless against invasion. It's not ridiculous at all, had Ukraine become a NATO member the great European plains would have been controlled by NATO, making Russia's defence impossible. Ukraine falling to NATO was and is a major threat to Russia's ability to defend herself.

I think that the mere possibility that the US can cut off its trading partners in the abrupt and cold way that it has will have a number of effects: 1) The end of the Most-favoured-Nation principle. This WTO standard is now obsolete. 2) New trade alliances are already being formed, China, Japan and South Korea, or Canada and Mexico. 3) As consumers in the US, and many other countries, can no longer pay ridulously low prices for goods, the exploitation of women and children in manufacturing in China and other Asian counties may come to an end. However, the really interesting effect will come if Trump really pursues what Bessent and Co wrote in their papers, namely to try and persuade nations to allow the US to devalue the dollar and still keep it as reserve currency, if the US really does revive its manufacturing and self-sufficiency can come to pass in the US. If that comes to pass, globalism comes to an end and more nationalist economies will no doubt result in more nationalist political systems, whicih in any event would have struggled to maintain socialist ideals like the welfare state with shrinking populations.