The Foreign Trade Thread

[n_huffhines]

A more consistent, predictable economy is good.

Sure, but this isn't a utopia...that comes with a cost. The cost is larger recessions/depressions and insurmountable national debt.

 

[BigOrangeD]

Trump on twitter today patting himself on the back for getting trade relations with China almost back to where they were before he started a trade war.

We're not back yet. The whole plan is to get the trade imbalance with China back to a better place. It may just work. Have to wait and see.

 

[midnight orange]

Sure, but this isn't a utopia...that comes with a cost. The cost is larger recessions/depressions and insurmountable national debt.

Also the rise of centralized power in the 20th century coincided with the bloodiest century in human existence.

 

[Velo Vol]

Also the rise of centralized power in the 20th century coincided with the bloodiest century in human existence.

Non sequitur alert

 

[n_huffhines]

Non sequitur alert

How do you think the wars were paid for?

 

[midnight orange]

Non sequitur alert

20th Century Democide

 

[Velo Vol]

Also the rise of centralized power in the 20th century coincided with the longest human life spans and accumulation of the most wealth in history.

What's the point of this?

 

[Velo Vol]

Feels like were headed into an auto correction

 

[Velo Vol]

Keeps getting better.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

Is it a total of 15% or 15% plus duties? There should be enough of a "tax" on imports to cover the costs of running the ports, customs, inspections, counterfeit enforcements, etc.

 

[n_huffhines]

Also the rise of centralized power in the 20th century coincided with the longest human life spans and accumulation of the most wealth in history.

What's the point of this?

The rise of centralized power?

We're talking about central planning and the Fed. Power has always been centralized, hasn't it?

You can validly argue that the advancements of society would have been accomplished with or without increasing central planning, but you cannot argue that we would have had war on that level without central banking. It's an impossibility.

 

[carlos86]

Keeps getting better.

 

[Velo Vol]

You can validly argue that the advancements of society would have been accomplished with or without increasing central planning, but you cannot argue that we would have had war on that level without central banking. It's an impossibility.

Well, obviously you've got to have the system to fund a big military.

Anyway, this is going off topic and to no clear destination.

 

[Velo Vol]

 

[Velo Vol]

This can't be true.

 

[Velo Vol]

LOL

 

[Velo Vol]

Tariff Man!

 

[n_huffhines]

 

[n_huffhines]

 

[Velo Vol]

Raiders who give us what we're looking to buy when we give them money.

 

[carlos86]

LOL

 

[Velo Vol]

Make America Rich Again

 

[Franklin Pierce]

 

[ClearwaterVol]

So, no deal with China. New NAFTA deal that ain't much different than the old. Debt setting up for a huge spike. Stock market in turmoil. Price of oil spiking. Auto manufacturers slashing jobs. Stock market is in danger of being down for the year.

#winning

 

[Velo Vol]

Exactly.