@hellhammer: My dude...this is Freshman year economics level stuff we're discussing here.Freshman year in HIGH SCHOOL level economics. Every economist from the conservative to the liberal side of the ...

@mogan:Precisely. It is impossible for businesses to make long term plans when the mango menace could wake up tomorrow, have a bad bowel movement, and again decide to, I dunno, start talking about ann...

@maralzo:This is like an arsonist setting fire to your house, then putting that same fire out, and wanting a medal for it.The reason the stock market was crashing to begin with were the tariffs. He ca...

@punkndrublic: Let's not get personal here.But, for the record, I have a Masters degree in Business Administration. (MBA) with a specialization in finance. I worked for almost 20 years at a Fortune 10...

@punkndrublic:No, I did not dodge the question. I explained how the Trump tariffs were calculated. Rather than "leveling the playing field" which is what EQUIVALENT TARIFFS would do, these are tariffs...

@punkndrublic: Feel free to check my math. It is easily confirmable on your end by a little googling. As others have mentioned, this equation shows what tariffs were leveled on every country in the wo...

@punkndrublic: The tariffs that are being leveled by Trump have zero relationship to what other countries are leveling on us.How the "tariffs" that other countries were putting on the U.S. was calcula...

@pcps4xb: Trump's tariffs were a great deal higher than anybody really anticipated.

I'm on record as saying - repeatedly and loudly - that if the price goes up from $450 to something else it is very clearly going to be because of the Trump tariffs but......I also want to say that th...

@elderlord99: The tariffs were far higher than anybody anticipated. Trump is the problem.

@xnshd: It is almost like people can dislike more than one thing at a time, or that multiple things can BOTH be bad.Yes, I hate microtransactions and recognize them as a bad thing. Like most people.Ta...

@Baconelite: And very much directly hurt your average American customer as well.Tariffs are a tax. Americans who want to buy things like new gaming consoles from overseas are going to be hit with it i...

I'm just going to leave this here as yet another illustration of just how absurdly stupid these tariffs are.By the numbers, the tariffs are less an expression of economic theory and more a Dadaist art...

@davidb50100:I absolutely did not because that is 100% not what was being talked about or debated on the point in question.And also not an argument that anybody was making in favor of these tariffs. I...

@YumeriaYumi: This is incorrect.How the "tariffs" that other countries were putting on the U.S. was calculated is as follows:1. Take the total trade deficit that the U.S. has with a particular country...

@MigGui:This is correct. It is actually factually correct.How the "tariffs" that other countries were putting on the U.S. was calculated is as follows:1. Take the total trade deficit that the U.S. has...

Come on now, aren't you all feeling so free after "Liberation Day"?

@Smokin105: This is, unfortunately, correct.

@mogan: I think he's referring to Asmongold.This guy here.https://www.youtube.com/@AsmonTVA conservative, but also the guy who outed Elon Musk for being a lying phony about his video game accomplishme...