Someone made that point w/ autos, and I pointed out that even though by any standard of individual wealth they’re exorbitant, they still only work out to a couple dollars per unit. A 20% teriff on aluminum and steel would still obliterate per-unit savings if the c-suite stopped being paid at all.

Depends on the items. Some things have tight enough margins that they’ll have to be raised.

I expect some companies will try to cut costs by cannibalizing themselves in the short term by cutting workforce. Nobody intends to report to their shareholders that profits are down.

The idea that your identity can/should/must include inventing cruel language to enforce the idea that people who are unlike you are disgusting and lesser is a pretty significant part of the reason things aren’t good and are getting worse. The idea it’s acceptable or tolerable isn’t great.

It may surprise you how many people don’t invent language to diminish others, and are diligently working to avoid language that already exists.

That offers an explanation as to why someone might choose to not have kids, not why someone should believe that nobody should and start using toxic pejoratives for people who do.

“arakhis, you gotta flush. I don’t wanna be greeted by a log every time I go to pee. It’s nasty”

Smh sounds just like Trump.

(/S)

I think what China did well was to let him fucking stew it it. The rest of the world has been putting reciprocal teriffs, but being clear they’re eager to begin negotiations.

China put up the reciprocal teriffs and just said “reach out when you’re ready to be reasonable. Don’t wait for a phone call from us because it isn’t coming.”

Whatever the version of an RRSP is in the states, usually you can change your investment strategy in it even if it doesn’t hold individual securities. Most would have an international investments strategy that keeps your money out of the USA.