david_herdson

It's getting near the point where trade between the two just near-enough stops. Presumably that will also involve China not buying any more US bonds and probably continuing to wind down its current s… (View Post)

The S&P is a better guide to the US stock market: much more broadly based - and is down nearly three and a half percent. Why wouldn't it be? The tariff war is still on with China, 10% is a damn s… (View Post)

Leaving aside the abuse, which there really isn't any call for, it is indeed stupid to think that a bit of infrastructure *by itself* will resolve an economic malaise. But it does play a part if done… (View Post)

It's not clear that the tariffs *have* been paused, by the way. Trump's word is not (yet) law and there's no published Executive Order amending the previous rates yet. You'd assume that there probabl… (View Post)

Maybe a millennium bug issue? (View Post)