And in Mexico you don't need to pay for the tariffs on steel and aluminum, and on car parts. It's a genuinely retarded policy that will reduce US manufacturing. (View Post)

OK. The Lutnick thing is not *quite* as stupid as it appears. What is happening is that US automakers (i.e. Ford, GM, Tesla) won't be subject to tariffs on imported car parts. While Mercedes Ben… (View Post)

And how are you going to attract investment from the likes of TSMC if you are saying "well we might just tariff what you make here if we feel like it"? (View Post)

As an aside, it's not long ago that Portugal and Spain were being lauded for being the only countries in Europe to have largely avoided the Ukraine war energy price spike. Which was - itself - a… (View Post)

Ummm: there was another thing you might want to check out Ed - and that is that in highly polarized elections, third parties (or even fourth parties) can get really badly squeezed. (View Post)