OK: That looks... errr... terrible. (View Post)

Because Americans need to do more low productivity jobs like making hats! Just look at Switzerland: big trade surplus, lots of manufacturing, lots of low value textiles in there. (OK: one of those mi… (View Post)

The best response is to simply ignore the US. The tariffs will do far more damage to the US than to other economies, because it is a hell of a lot easier to stimulate domestic demand (which is what t… (View Post)

Even if every penny of that came from the US (hint, it doesn't), it could only be an 8% tariff. (View Post)

They sell the intellectual property used to make the iPhone. They have the high value bit. They want to also do the low value bit. Doing that without damaging the high value bit is the challenge. The… (View Post)