This is a mindset we’ve had at Pipe Puffin, so it’s interesting you bring this up as a closing sentence.Competition is one thing, but cooperation is generally more effective and leads to greater achievements.
Not just that. US allows growth hormones and genenetically modified grain (mainly corn) to be given / fed to cattle.What, you Europeans don't want to buy meat from a country with factory farms so filthy and disgusting you will literally be charged with terrorism if you take video of them?
Ag-gag - Wikipedia
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LOL tRump supporters are so STUPID, especially my BIL. Auto makers in US are passing the costs to consumers.Thank you, Americans, for paying $150 billion in new sales taxes so Trump and his fellow rich pedophiles from the Epstein List can get another tax cut
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The Dollar has DECLINED to worst level since 1972
Let's not forget that this is the LOSER who has gone BANKRUPT EIGHT times with his business. Who should be surprised? There are MORONS out there like my BIL that will vote for anything with an R next to their name.Instead of adding a sales tax (tariff) to every product or raw material imported from another country in the hope this will magically cause "good paying" manufacturing jobs to sprout out of the ground, why don't we simply raise the pay for the jobs we do have now in the retail, service, and healthcare sectors?
Also, a reminder that McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than auto factory workers in the American South.
My slightly tinfoil hat prediction is that the dollar will never recover. The US has long positioned itself as a place that is friendly to businesses through really lax regulation and minimal import taxes, allowing US consumers pretty much unfettered access to any market imaginable. That meant that several countries and corporations held large amounts of US cash and cash equivalents and debt obligations. But most of the major countries with sizable US debt holdings have been steadily decreasing their holdings thanks to their recognition that the US is no longer a stable neoliberal democracy with reliable rules of engagement for business.LOL tRump supporters are so STUPID, especially my BIL. Auto makers in US are passing the costs to consumers.
MoRon has a red hat but would never dare wear it in front of me
Be prepared to pay more for Coffee look at the rate for Brazil because OrangeSHTstain wants to support the Fascist leader Bolsonaro
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The full list of Trump’s tariffs – from India to Taiwan
US president signs executive order that will impose reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries in seven days’ time, and orders imminent 35% tariffs on Canadawww.theguardian.com
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Trump suspends de minimis exemption for low-value imports
Low-value parcels coming from other countries will no longer evade tariffs under the executive order President Trump signed Wednesday.www.cbsnews.com
Home prices are UP sales are DOWN , obviously Rape boy Donald had NO plan what so ever on housing
The Dollar has DECLINED to worst level since 1972 and the Moron in Chief wants manufacturing to move to US?? The fvck up in chief doesn't have a clue. Why would ANY foreign company move manufacturing to the United States??? LOL don't see many of those stupid Red hats around
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My slightly tinfoil hat prediction is that the dollar will never recover. The US has long positioned itself as a place that is friendly to businesses through really lax regulation and minimal import taxes, allowing US consumers pretty much unfettered access to any market imaginable. That meant that several countries and corporations held large amounts of US cash and cash equivalents and debt obligations. But most of the major countries with sizable US debt holdings have been steadily decreasing their holdings thanks to their recognition that the US is no longer a stable neoliberal democracy with reliable rules of engagement for business.
I don't know what the next major currencies are that are used as common reserves. The Euro is used commonly and I would think has the second highest level of cultural penetration after US dollars as a currency that is relatively stable and is used by a massive, well-resourced demographic bloc. Chinese imperialism is very different from American imperialism, so I don't anticipate the yuan to take the place of the dollar as we transition into China being the clear technological leader of the world, but it could happen.
Fascinating table showing foreign ownership of US treasuries over time. Japan did some selling off earlier this year and has been buying again, but China continues to offload US debt obligations.
As a reminder to those who say that US debt being owned by foreign countries is bad: the cornerstone of American global economic domination is forcing every other country in the world to engage with our markets and, in fact, often making other countries completely center their markets around American empire or our imperial vassal states. If everyone starts using their own money, or starts using some other form of money, then our money doesn't have anywhere near the same global purchasing power, and the ability for Americans to go to other countries and use American dollars to get an outsized quality of life will decline dramatically. This whole empire business is complicated, but it relies on other people relying on us to pay back our debts (until we default because what are they gonna do, invade us to get their money back?).