Showing posts with label Trade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trade. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Aside from the fact the president thinks this is a good thing when he normally doesn't, Why in June 2026 is the president linking to a Reuters article from January 2026 talking about the 94.6% increase in the trade deficit in November 2025?

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Aside from the fact the president thinks this is a good thing when he normally doesn't, Why in June 2026 is the president linking to a R...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Iran is charging $2 million in protection money in exchange for safe passage of some vessels through the Strait of Hormuz

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 Not only do the Iranians control the Strait, they've turned it into a racket. Vessels have been tracked passing between Qeshm and Larak...
Thursday, March 19, 2026

How war escalates to consume the state: Things don't go right after two weeks (!) and suddenly Trump needs NATO to come to his rescue and Congress to fork over an additional $200 billion which we don't have

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 All because of one, supremely disordered soul.       ‘We will remember’: Trump warns countries to help secure Strait of Hormuz as shipping ...
Thursday, February 19, 2026

The massive trade deficits were the main reason Trump instituted his equally massive tariffs to eliminate them, but they're still here lol

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    U.S. trade deficit totaled $901 billion in 2025, barely budging despite Trump’s tariffs ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

The U.S. trade balance has worsened after one year of Trump tariffs lol

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  Trade balance soared 94% in November and was higher than a year ago, despite tariff efforts   ... On a year-over-year basis, the deficit t...
Tuesday, January 6, 2026

As usual Trump puts the cart before the horse: If you don't already have total access, you're not in charge

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And you don't put protective tariffs on trade when you have nothing to protect.   “We’re in charge,” he told reporters. “We need total ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Michigan's Pete Hoekstra, a phony baloney plastic banana good time libertarian free trader, now touts tariffs as Trump's ambassador to Canada which kill jobs in his congressional district

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  In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course.   
Friday, November 7, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson wouldn't know chaos if it walked up and introduced itself

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  Democrats Wielding Chaos as a Strategy Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness   This guy is delusional.    I th...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Mad King Ludwig is delusional, Reagan loathed tariffs in principle

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Saturday, October 25, 2025

As Mad King Ludwig speeds a carrier strike group from the Med to the Caribbean, American failure to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea is highlighted by the latest Suez Canal navigation report for 3Q2025

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 It's a picture of dismal failure. The U.S. Navy has not made the Red Sea safe for free trade. The Houthis remain a potent threat to shi...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Lying Trump will never rise to the level of Reagan, let alone of any other president

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 If Reagan were alive today, he'd reject Donald Trump and his trade war against the whole world, including and especially against our f...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Look at that flight to US Treasury safety

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  Trump unleashes sweeping new tariffs in a blow to global trade   U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July and numbers for prior months were rev...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Trump's $170 billion tax hike on the American consumer

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 The seasonally-adjusted annual rate of Trump's tariffs leaped from $96 billion in 1Q to $266 billion in 2Q. The federal government fart...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

GOP U.S. Senate: Feckless lickspittles without two brain cells to rub together propose rebates of surpluses WE DO NOT HAVE

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  The goods trade deficit in May was $96 billion, in June $85 billion. The only thing that's changed is consumers are now being taxed on...
Friday, July 11, 2025

The great impediment to a U. S. - Canada trade deal which most people in the U. S., including our dunce of a president, don't seem to understand is that it's not Mark Carney standing in the way, it's Canada's sovereign 10 provinces and 3 territories

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  Canada is today's poster child for America's bad old system of states' rights. Canada does not have free trade with itself, le...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Looks like there's a new chart at FRED which tracks Trump's goods-trade deficits lol, $96.5 billion in May

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  Update Jul 29, 2025: OK, so it appears it's not a new chart series. It's an advance report of the most recent month without showin...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Trump administration fails to intimidate Canada, goes Galt and ends trade talks

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  Trump ends all U.S. trade talks with Canada over digital services tax             ... The first payments from Canada’s digital services ta...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

TACO Trump is negative for long term investment, 1Q2025 exports were the worst on record for their positive contribution to GDP

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Does anybody ever talk about exports anymore? You know, from domestic production?  ... In recent years, a cautious optimism had returned, a...

TACO Trump chickens out on more than just tariffs, calls off the ICE raids on agriculture, restaurant, and hotel jobs to quell heartland rebellion

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Stephen Miller most hurt. On Wednesday morning, President Trump took a call from Brooke Rollins, his secretary of agriculture, who relayed a...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Taco, taco, taco man . . .

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    Most retail execs expect Trump to walk back ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, survey says "Liberation Day" was just a trial balloon.