The same goes for cooking, making coffee and a LOT of other things you do at home. It raises the market value because it’s a chore some people want others to do for them.

If the value of money goes down, prices go up.

No shit they are. Even after all this blows over, as it inevitably will, they’re still gonna be huge… but what might be a small loss percentage-wise is still quite big when you’re as big as Microsoft.

Here in the nordics they seem to have almost every company and almost every municipality as their customer, if there’s a rule coming in saying public data must be in Europe or something like that — that’s a lot of dollars lost. Same if just a percentage or two of companies decide they’re not fans of American tech anymore.

No no, the Russia collaborators are the actual politicians. This is just an aide.

‘artists’ (usually rich)

I know think you’re trolling, but…

I’m not 100% sure about the economics of tariffs, but my interpretation is that the US are shooting themselves in the foot more than us. And if we can project an image of a stable level-headed trading partner and create good trade relations with India, China and countries in Africa and South America that might be more valuable in the long run than our US trade relations.

Basically, if US wants to hamper their own economy, let them. Meanwhile we’ll be Open For Business™ and picking up all the good stuff they left behind.

While I do think the EU is lacking the balls to do this, there’s also some strategy to consider here. It certainly would be lovely if the EU would be more defensive, but also more damaging to the EU economy (at least in the short run, probably for a long time).

China is being painted as enemy number one, and there’s long-standing beef between the countries. Trump lost or is losing the trade war, and needs to make himself not look weak. Meanwhile China wants to project strength internally. Whatever is happening between closed doors, China has everything to gain from humiliating the US at this point. Trumps incompetence is already evident, they just need to fuel the flames.

With the EU, the situation is wildly different. EU doesn’t really want to project power, they want to project exactly as much power as is necessary not to seem weak but no more. It wants to show that it’s a level-headed free trade partner ready to take the lead in the free world, the fairest and most stable market in the world.

…that’s my take on it anyway. USE! USE! USE! USE! 🇪🇺

So based. Any chance that they’ll win?

What does unofficial recognition mean? Can a country do anything unofficially?

Of course not, to even entertain this idea is ridiculous.

An EU-China summit will be held in July, both sides announced.

Don’t know why, but this feels hype.

TFW Chinese EV makers aren’t even competing with western ones anymore, only among themselves.

My impression as an outsider (some, but limited, exposure to Finnish politics) is that the Finns have the right way of dealing with these far right, maybe. What they always do it seems like is to create a coalition government of the largest parties, including the far right. This keeps them from riding the underdog wave of support for years, and exposes their incompetence in real political issues (usually these parties only have one well-formulated stance, and that is anti immigration - that’s the solution to every single other issue).

I’m welcome to criticism if my outsider perspective is misinformed. (-:

If a tariff falls on a product category but no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?

day before yesterday, 105. yesterday 125. today 145.

so I guess 165 tomorrow?

Maybe he’s doing it to displease someone…

Automating this system with some kind of algorithm is not right, but a nearly blind 70-year-old can still do damage? The angle here is weird.

I think this but it’s just the people seeing his tweet immediately before he lifted the restrictions.

Market doesn’t know if the tariffs are even coming back, and are taking the chance to buy back low.

Aight so, we have two huge economic powers in the world and one that’s lesser but still very big. The two huge powers are fighting each other to the death, destroying each others economies as well as their own. Lets go EU Century? 🙏

When linking the video above, I noticed they have a newer one kind of on this topic. I found it interesting, maybe you will too: Europe’s Military is Weak - But Is That America’s Fault?

Is this a rhetoric question? Because if you have the answer I’m interested to know.

If not, I don’t know. At 2:18 this video references a previous attempt to re-arm Europe, and that one of the reasons it never got through was because the US didn’t like it. It seems to be referencing the Saint-Malo declaration, but I’ve yet to be able to confirm US role in this.