They started the program on the first government change after Bush announced the US would invade them…

As scary as the article makes screworms look, that thing doing the calling is way scarier.

Oh, and the worm that died inside its brain once too.

Every year or two China bans exports of rare-earths to the US.

I don’t think anything China did made the Trump regime “feel the pain”. Lots of things Trump did made that, but China just doesn’t have that power over the US.

Well, compared to what the other side is doing, “nothing” is a lot more productive.

But he did do the normal “China is currently mad with the US” stuff, like banning the export of rare-earths.

The EU are implementing reciprocal tariffs, aren’t they?

What exactly do you want the EU to do or not do?

Because I don’t see any country there trying to appease Trump. Except if you mean it as literally saying nice things, instead of doing something.

There isn’t any genocide going on those places he pointed, and there hasn’t been any for centuries.

Dude is comparing his genocide to history books.

Also, Denmark subsides are probably in Euros. So it’s already 5% higher just on Trump’s first 3 months.

Yeah, it’s because of the tariffs people. There are only the tariffs, there’s nothing else to see here. Move along.

If the US manages to reduce their imports, what will probably happen is that the rest of the world will cut the more optional consumption from there so that they can keep buying the food. What means that US industry will suffer.

But your first feeling that sellers and buyers will redistribute who they deal with is probably correct too. Anyway, the tariffs shouldn’t have an immediate effect of changing how much food moves around, but nobody knows what domino pieces they will hit on the fall.

On the very short term, China is tariffing stuff that hurts. What means they are serious about not buying from the US and will pay extra for the privilege. And yes, also means somebody else will probably take their place.

Yes, but the other countries that buy from elsewhere will want their normal amounts too.

Can other food producers increase their production while the US spirals down? Nobody really knows, we are in shock due to both global warming and the war in Ukraine. And the US is a really major food exporter.

Can people make do with less food? Probably, but it’s not trivial.

Anyway, China’s tariffs are completely self-imposed. They can cut them at any time.

The problem is that China can live very easily without American goods

A lot of it is food. They probably can, but it will not be not easy at all.

There’s nothing wrong with world, except for it being always overloaded by too many users.

The issue on the beginning was that all the instances were way too restrictive on worldview or goal. It makes sense to put communities on them, but it doesn’t make sense to join them as users.

The 2 instances that were aimed at the general public, world and ee grew to be the 1st and 2nd largest ones…

AFAIK, most low added-value products the US net exports are food. Also AFAIK, Canada mostly doesn’t buy those, but the countries that do buy them won’t just stop.

Well, yes, wages tend to decrease on that shift.

At least Brazil has tariffs large than that already. I doubt he will decrease them.

The effects of widespread tariffs is well known.

You will lose industry that makes high added-value products, and increase the production of products with low added-value. (Most people call this “deindustrialization”.)

Tariffs mostly don’t impact the overall trade balance, so there’s no reason to expect that one to change.

But Tesla stock is 75% hype

It has been adjusted recently, but it was around 99% (P/E of 100 times what other car companies have), so it can’t be lower than some 95% now.

She actually has had it better than a lot of people on the last Trump administration…