Chinese people aren’t stupid. They will know the direct cause of any struggles caused by tariffs. Their citizens hating americans isn’t really a problem for the CCP, they likely benefit from the resentment.

Remember to declare your terrorist attacks to the FBI beforehand for a tax break on supplies

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Average user:

“Wait how do I get cryptocurrency with my key?”

This is a lot less scary than it sounds when you read that it’s accomplished nothing (0 arrests from interviewed police depts) and sounds like this:

Your parents around? Or you getting some awesome alone time,” a text from the adult says.

“Js chillin by myself, man. My momz @ work n my dadz outta town. So itz jus me n my vid games. 🎮,” Jason, the AI-generated child, responds.

This is little more than an AI grift to scam politicians and police chiefs that have no tech literacy.

It’s a frontend for an email list builder

There is functionally no difference between a 145% and a 245% tariff.

The cost of going through a black market rather than a clear or grey one is likely already below 145% and the grey one is likely to fill most gaps in the long run anyways.

Grey market tariff skirting might be Canadian or UK companies slapping their logos and “made in X” marker after making a tiny change to the product. The barrier to entry on this is quite low as is the risk. If your profit is capped at 145% you still have a lot of room to make money.

Imagine being one of the tech billionaires who Trump bankrolled and he does this- basically handing out wrenches for people to throw.

This whole thing is just so incomprehensiblely stupid and real world usage numbers prove it:

According to Wikimedia Statistics, Cebuano Wikipedia currently reels in tens of thousands of page views from the Philippines each month.

English Wikipedia, meanwhile, gets more than 100 million Filipino viewers per month.

If people wanted AN AUTOMATED TRANSLATION they could just go to the English page and use one of the many free page translation tools that exist. Who even asked him to do this? Or is it just more white saviour complex?

On Monday, Sony announced that it was increasing the price of its flagship games console, the PlayStation 5, by about 10% in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, citing a “challenging economic environment”, inflation and fluctuating exchange rates. It did not announce price rises in the United States.

We call this a “just try to stop us” surcharge.

Waving hands around like an idiot

“You could say I’ve made an exception to the exception.”

US treasuries is literally what we used in university as the “risk free rate”

When you have government officials saying they want to default on the “risk free” bonds it undermines markets in a completely unprecedented way.

Shockingly stupid.

Just look through this page and tell me if you weren’t the leader you wouldn’t be begging to be spared:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Madagascar

I imagine there are other countries too that are going to be devastated by the tariffs.

It’s unclear where the Trump administration stands on the tariffs, whose cost will be largely paid by American consumers in the form of higher prices for foreign goods. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS News Tuesday that the tariffs are “negotiable but not a negotiating tactic.”

Trump said Monday that there could be both “permanent tariffs and there could also be negotiations.”

This feels like the start of a really stupid riddle.

I’m negotiable but not a negotiation tactic, I’m permanent but subject to change…

The places are probably developing countries with GDP per capita under $2000

I doubt any well conected country is doing that when america is clearly the underdog in a “civilized world vs america” situation. Tax American services, impose controls on yank companies operating domestically or just size their assets all together. What are they gonna do? Go cry to the WTO?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_settlement_in_the_World_Trade_Organization#Paralyzation

Trump literally lobotomized it and Europe had to put together a parallel judgement body. No shot it won’t be biased against the US

Tbh I just like how honest it makes look imho

And what was being pardoned:

“In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law.”

Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like “I want to destroy the country” with not a whole lot else going on.

I don’t think “depleted stocks” is good way for saying there are tanks available but not usable but I also don’t know what a better wording would be so maybe it’s accurate. Thanks for elaborating regardless.

Even without assuming they’ll use low quality examples, the article also says

According to researchers, only about 1,200 tanks can still be relatively easily restored after major repairs.

It sure sounds like the title is BS.

Wrote down not off.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk

Debt is written off when deemed unrecoverable.

Assets can be written down when the value is lower than expected. Often this is due to more rapid depreciation of capital assets due to damage or impairments to goodwill (brand failure).

But none of that matters because private equity valuations are all bullshit and mean nothing anyways.

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/private-equity/private-equity-is-a-joke