Tariffs? Buy stuff now?

[florduh]

It's just too much chaos. The damage is done. Corpos will raise prices even if their costs haven't increased yet.

 

[florduh]

everybody who spent the last 3 months assuring me tariffs were about to usher in a new golden age of American manufacturing today

 

[florduh]

I honestly find this kind of shocking. I thought for sure China would cave at least a little. To keep global trade functioning.

China tells Trump: If you want trade talks, cancel tariffs

China denies any trade talks with the US as it calls for sweeping tariffs to be cancelled.

www.bbc.com

LOL. The US is now begging to negotiate. China says, "nahhh we're good. Best of luck"

 

[Flotsam]

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[florduh]

Look, I'm no Big City Business Genius. But maybe instead of crashing the global economy to bring factories back, we can instead simply improve the wages of the jobs we have now?

Hyundai factory workers in Alabama make less than McDonalds workers in Denmark