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Time For a Flag wrote:

I will give everyone the drum about tariffs Sunday. Snowed under atm. My gut thought though is that they must be good - multinationals hate them. 💪

The only people that think they are good are people that dont understand them which is obvious by your post.

BC wrote:

I have no doubt there are some very smart cookies in US Commerce, Treasury and Home Affairs departments DD who would have done a lot of economic modelling to gauge the impact of these tariffs but for a layperson like myself, I can't help think these tariffs risk the US going into recession which is bad for all of us.

It will most certainly raise the price of imports into the US as the importer pays the additional tariffs and then either passes it on to the consumer, absorbs it and takes a profit hit, or a combination of both. Whichever way it goes, it will mean prices invariably goes up in the US.

If Strumpet thinks that will encourage manufacturers to bring their operations onshore into the US, then clearly he's forgotten that to set something like that up takes a lot of capital and time, and won't happen overnight. In the meantime, US retailers who have relied on imported goods will either lift prices as a result of the tariffs, or turn to US makers which by sheer demand, will also lift prices.

He's playing a very risky game which could turn against the US completely by offshore manufacturers looking for other markets and the US becoming a very isolated super power. That has already started to happen with the announcement of a unilateral co-operation agreement by Japan, China and South Korea.

A 10% tariff on Oz goods won't mean a whole lot at days end, but it does signal the end of AUSFTA which has been in place since 2005 and a major shift in trade and relations between the 2 countries.

Good post BC

It costs $90 per hour to build a car in the US, $70 per hour in Canada and $9 an hour in Mexico, that's why GM Ford and Co. don't build in the US anymore, it takes 7-15 years to move and set up a new car plant, GM wont be moving production back to the US 1950s style with Trumps braindead populists claptrap, and US Consumers like Aussie consumers won't pay over the odds for a product.

Apple build iphones in China with multi sources components and retail them for $1000 in the US, they just went up 54% on import , thats a tax on consumers of $500 on each phone, to make the same phone in the US would have to retail at $9000!

 

Lathlain lad wrote:

Time for a flag. You blindly follow a guy who has built a career on fairy tales and lies yet crack the shits when your footy team plays games by naming a couple of players out of position in their Thursday night selections. 
Talk about blowing things out of proportion.


 

Big supporter (more of a defender really) but not totally blind. Saw a great meme this morning - "So you're telling me everybody who was wrong about everything for the past five years thinks the tariffs are bad?"

I am cracking the shits about our website with justification. Multiple big signings who have been with us for 15-16 months still wearing their old club jumper on our website, others have a generic photo. Players who have come up through the ranks have photo's from 3 years ago (they look skin and bone). Nothing on our injury list. 

In comparison $ubi have had Jack Cooley for 3 months and he is kitted out correctly for them already. East Perth have and extensive injury list up (heaps of hamstrings), and Claremont's player photos are all wearing the same jumper are more or less current and in frame (thus their players look big and strong).

I always get pissed off when simple things aren't done well.

Back to the tariffs. 

America has woken up and smelt the coffee. Realised that if they continued the current projection - big clouds would pop up on the horizon. They have to drill baby drill, farm baby farm and manufacture baby manufacture. 

China and Russia need a big strong adversary.

Freeze re: your surgeons' thoughts - they are often pretty puffed-up characters - true.

My experience sees cardiothoracic surgeons having to make tough decisions to make like my man Trump. Patients often want to undergo a procedure but can't get a surgeon to take it on. A lot of surgeons want to protect their numbers and a death on the table doesn't look good. Here the poor old patient knows he is going to die from for example his abdominal aortic aneurysm (somewhere between 2 months and 2 years). Not a great way to live. 

This patient needs a brave surgeon to take on the tough cases - Patient fixed and lives another 10-20 years, or dies on the table, or do nothing and die within two years. I know what option I would want to take and the sort of surgeon I would like to meet. 

Trumpy like a good surgeon risks his numbers to save the poor old patient/the US people.

Anyway, I don't know what long term affect these tariffs will have - I love how BAZA does know though.

And I was going to wait till Sunday.

It looks like kaos all over the place.
Some good news for President Trump.Hyundai and Honda have comitted to building,new plants.
Two of the big 3 .US auto manufacturers are,incredibly quiet,Ford+Stelantis.Worried about their Mexican and Canadian plants.And how to make,small and medium cars profitable.Built in the US.
General Motors,lol.As a company they have a history of sucking money of governments all over the world.They will do whatever Trump wants ,cap in hand.
Lets hope the world is watching the to be negotiated ,UK /US trade deal.Its time to renegotiate with President Trump.
At the end of the day.The US consumer will decide this policy.How much more are they prepared to pay for built in the US

Time For a Flag wrote:

Lathlain lad wrote:

Time for a flag. You blindly follow a guy who has built a career on fairy tales and lies yet crack the shits when your footy team plays games by naming a couple of players out of position in their Thursday night selections. 
Talk about blowing things out of proportion.



 

Big supporter (more of a defender really) but not totally blind. Saw a great meme this morning - "So you're telling me everybody who was wrong about everything for the past five years thinks the tariffs are bad?"

I am cracking the shits about our website with justification. Multiple big signings who have been with us for 15-16 months still wearing their old club jumper on our website, others have a generic photo. Players who have come up through the ranks have photo's from 3 years ago (they look skin and bone). Nothing on our injury list. 

In comparison $ubi have had Jack Cooley for 3 months and he is kitted out correctly for them already. East Perth have and extensive injury list up (heaps of hamstrings), and Claremont's player photos are all wearing the same jumper are more or less current and in frame (thus their players look big and strong).

I always get pissed off when simple things aren't done well.

Back to the tariffs. 

America has woken up and smelt the coffee. Realised that if they continued the current projection - big clouds would pop up on the horizon. They have to drill baby drill, farm baby farm and manufacture baby manufacture. 

China and Russia need a big strong adversary.

Freeze re: your surgeons' thoughts - they are often pretty puffed-up characters - true.

My experience sees cardiothoracic surgeons having to make tough decisions to make like my man Trump. Patients often want to undergo a procedure but can't get a surgeon to take it on. A lot of surgeons want to protect their numbers and a death on the table doesn't look good. Here the poor old patient knows he is going to die from for example his abdominal aortic aneurysm (somewhere between 2 months and 2 years). Not a great way to live. 

This patient needs a brave surgeon to take on the tough cases - Patient fixed and lives another 10-20 years, or dies on the table, or do nothing and die within two years. I know what option I would want to take and the sort of surgeon I would like to meet. 

Trumpy like a good surgeon risks his numbers to save the poor old patient/the US people.

Anyway, I don't know what long term affect these tariffs will have - I love how BAZA does know though.

And I was going to wait till Sunday.

Come on man,do you really think at 78 years of age the greedy old fucker has suddenly discovered altruism??? What President exploits his presidency by selling meme coins???I admire your work in the medical profession TFAF,but I reckon at your workplace,you’ve inadvertently inhaled too much laughing gas.

He will proclaim a place in history when the world all sits down in two to three weeks and has the same tariff's everywhere, and the Don will say its all because of him

premiership hangover wrote:

He will proclaim a place in history when the world all sits down in two to three weeks and has the same tariff's everywhere, and the Don will say its all because of him

The real “Don”stands alone in the cricket world as the greatest,while the fake Don will have his name etched in history as No1 for political buffoonery.

Liberation Day , more like Liquidation Day...

ASX got smashed.

Wall Street tanking again at the start of trade. I saw a stat today where 62% of yanks own shares up from 20something % a few years ago. That's gotta be starting to hurt Republican poll numbers ahead of 2026 mid-terms.

BC wrote:

Wall Street tanking again at the start of trade. I saw a stat today where 62% of yanks own shares up from 20something % a few years ago. That's gotta be starting to hurt Republican poll numbers ahead of 2026 mid-terms.

You don't get it BC like a lot of you TDS haters.

Trump is on track to achieving what he wants for America. Jobs, jobs and more jobs. Fuck the stock market.

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