Paul Kondritz

The Chinese manufacturers don’t “eat it” even if they wanted to because tariffs are paid by the importer

It’s like the French far right leader who bailed on CPAC because he was finding it all a bit too extreme

Won't this double the price of MAGA hats though?

Unless my maths are off, if he have every American a cheque for $10k it would cost $2.5 trillion, and would also blow the inflation figure into space

Thoughtful piece that exposes the hypocrisy Of Vance's Munich speech, well worth reading.

Agree, the headline nearly put me off, I only read it after seeing your comment.

Just like last time. Lets see if he wrecks it again.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Just remember that on the internet scum floats to the surface. Most people in the real world don't think like this.

Another quote from LBJ, when he was seeing smoke rise from race riots in DC from the White House window "If you hold a man down with your foot on his throat for 200 years, when he does get up he's going to knock your block off"

A smaller number of quality followers who engage is better than a large number of troll and bot followers any day.

Can you imagine if Obama or Biden had tried putting in Nixon style price controls? The howling from Republicans would have been audible from space.

Exactly, and it's not just raw materials. The automotive industry uses many components that are made in Mexico. The way sub-components are are made in both countries in a just-in-time supply chain means some components will travel travel across the border in various states of assembly up to 8 times

So much for all that hard won Brexit 'sovereignty' then I guess.

Depends. If it's a textbook or non-fiction where I might have to keep referring to charts, diagrams, maps etc then prefer a physical book. For fiction and literature usually an ebook. For humour or other light stuff that I can listen too when I'm doing something then an audiobook.

Just moved over from the other place, seems a lot friendlier here.