OT: American Politics
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lecoqsportif
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WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
I have never deserved it. I've only ever been banned out of spite because I trigger people with the power to ban and mostly what they get triggered by are uncomfortable truths they'd prefer not to hear or opinions with which they disagree.
But other behaviors which, according to the site rules, are bannable, such as ad hominem attacks in which I do not engage, almost never get dealt with because the "Banner In Chief" is among the worst offenders.
Let's stop pretending that justice on this site is distributed evenly. Forum Ice is democratic in the same way the US is currently a democracy: in name only.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
I will get banned again soon, worry not.
I'm betting that Trump had "#1 national bestseller" put on the cover of the first edition, before a single copy had been sold, because there's no actual rules against lying about what book is or isn't a best seller, just "norms" against doing it.
And, even back then, that NYT quote...
hockeylover
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CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
A comprehensive take on tarriffs and how trade balances are a bad metric
Excerpt
One big clue that bilateral balances are meaningless is that the U.S. runs large trade surpluses with the Netherlands, the UAE, Hong Kong, and Singapore, even though all of those countries have massive trade surpluses with the world as a whole. The reason is simply that there are major ports in all of those places, and the U.S. data only show where exports land before they are shipped elsewhere.
Cambodians and Vietnamese were hit with some of the highest “reciprocal” tariff rates even though they almost certainly import some goods from the U.S. via Singapore, as do Indonesians, Malaysians, and Thais. Yet those are wrongly counted as “Singaporean” imports.
The U.S. also runs large trade surpluses with Australia, which also tells us nothing about the overall external position of either Australia or the U.S. Michael Pettis and I wrote about this instructive example in Trade Wars Are Class Wars:
View: https://x.com/m_c_klein/status/1908128982987424014?s=46&t=ZFoeJpONFeL00lgZvCrr2Q
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One big clue that bilateral balances are meaningless is that the U.S. runs large trade surpluses with the Netherlands, the UAE, Hong Kong, and Singapore, even though all of those countries have massive trade surpluses with the world as a whole. The reason is simply that there are major ports in all of those places, and the U.S. data only show where exports land before they are shipped elsewhere.
Cambodians and Vietnamese were hit with some of the highest “reciprocal” tariff rates even though they almost certainly import some goods from the U.S. via Singapore, as do Indonesians, Malaysians, and Thais. Yet those are wrongly counted as “Singaporean” imports.
The U.S. also runs large trade surpluses with Australia, which also tells us nothing about the overall external position of either Australia or the U.S. Michael Pettis and I wrote about this instructive example in Trade Wars Are Class Wars:
View: https://x.com/m_c_klein/status/1908128982987424014?s=46&t=ZFoeJpONFeL00lgZvCrr2Q
hockeylover
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CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
zeke
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The admin guys going in tv to say "i recommend everyone relax, take it, and don't retaliate and just see how this goes for a bit" is some of the scariest/most hilarious shit we've seen.
zeke
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Wayward DP
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wonder if they've had a chance to fully cook the data yet. I suspect not. guess we'll see
zeke
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hockeylover
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Jobs report wasn't too bad, a little while after this post I posted a guy who said not to expect the federal job losses to be reflected on this yet because a) they're still collecting severance and not unemployment yet and b) judges ordered some back.
zeke
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It's a good jobs report but i doubt the markets care much about pre-tarriff numbers right now.
LeafGm
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The “just lay back and take it and don’t retaliate” stuff is very on-brand for a country with a rapist President.
zeke
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