that door has been unlocked. Today, it is open a crack. It's open a crack! And here's the weirdest part: Donald Trump is the guy who's unlocked that door.
proposition of this talk: Trump's tariffs mean we can ditch some of the things we accepted the past years wrt computing to avoid them.
The moment came in May, when CNBC’s Megan Cassella asked Trump about “TACO,” an acronym for “Trump always chickens out.” The phrase had gained popularity in the financial sector as a derisive shorthand for the president’s penchant for backing down from his tariff threats. During an otherwise routine Oval Office event, Trump sputtered angrily at Cassella, claiming that his shifting tariff timelines were “part of negotiations” and admonishing, “Don’t ever say what you said.”
Swiss Joseph de Weck, fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, posits that the shock in CH about US regime tariffs may drive them closer to the EU. Mentions process towards upcoming 2028 referendum on renewing EU economic treaties (https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/swiss-government-approves-package-measures-closer-eu-ties-2025-06-13/) as potentially impacted by the US snub.
f you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things you're ripping me off you're ripping me off you're ripping me off i'm running a trade deficit that is the level of understanding of the president of the United States
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quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs - If you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops - Now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things - "you're ripping me off, i'm running a trade deficit!" - That is the level of understanding of the president of the United States!
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Summary - Jeffrey Sachs provides very good analysis of Trump's tariffs and its consequences
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Summary - Professor Edward Fishman gives a very good explanation about the relationship between the US national debt, treasury bonds, US reserve currency and the Trump tariffs. - Watching youtubes on these topics recently has been quite enlightening and primed me for this video - I really appreciated the interviewer asking the question on behalf of the viewers
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If an American President, head of the Green Party of the USA, were elected with a mandate to slash emissions
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In the short-term, any decline is likely to have a positive impact on emissions reduction. We saw this effect during the COVID-19 pandemic, when global production and trade fell.
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The move has prompted fears of a global economic slowdown. This might seem like a positive for the climate, because greenhouse gas emissions are closely tied to economic growth. However, in the long term, the trade war is bad news for global efforts to cut emissions. It is likely to lead to more energy-intensive goods produced in the US, and dampen international investment in renewable energy projects.
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comment - I'm surprised that not one analyst has commented on the potential slowdown of a possible recession due to lower consumer activity due to the tariffs - Remember the significant lowering of carbon emissions during COVID? - Of course it wouldn't be durable and carbon emissions could rise after Trump and tariffs may no longer be in place but now is a good time to strategize how to decarbonize strategically
this dude shut down the scam police he just shut down the the number one agency that cracks down on scams he just handcuffed them completely they can't do anything if you were going to run a scam where you and all your Robber Baron buddies made an extra 10 billion bucks by betting on a market crash cuz Trump caused a temporary market crash
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One widely circulated report this summer—which appears to have caught Mr. Trump’s attention—estimates that China shed five million industrial jobs, 1.9 million of them directly because of U.S. tariffs, between the beginning of the trade conflict and the end of May this year.