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Joe Cool

(1,077 posts)
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:35 PM Apr 2025

Trump waved the white flag on tariffs

I was wondering why the stock market suddenly shot up. 90 days is eventually going to turn into forever.

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Trump waved the white flag on tariffs (Original Post) Joe Cool Apr 2025 OP
The thing is that he changes his mind every few days. Diamond_Dog Apr 2025 #1
For all the dolts buying into this will bring jobes back Cosmocat Apr 2025 #4
There won't be a new "Golden Age of US manufacturing". Why? OAITW r.2.0 Apr 2025 #8
No, he will not give up unblock Apr 2025 #2
trump will just say that the world came crawling for him to stop, and he kindly obliged...nt albacore Apr 2025 #3
With tears in their eyes. Diamond_Dog Apr 2025 #5
My feeling is that Mossfern Apr 2025 #6
The distraction will be instituting the Insurrection Act. intheflow Apr 2025 #11
This is the right headline. Scrivener7 Apr 2025 #7
Not really -- he just raised China's to 125% obamanut2012 Apr 2025 #9
Bye, bye Walmart and Dollar General central scrutinizer Apr 2025 #10

Diamond_Dog

(38,731 posts)
1. The thing is that he changes his mind every few days.
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:38 PM
Apr 2025

It’s like a roller coaster. I think he loves creating the chaos.

Cosmocat

(15,304 posts)
4. For all the dolts buying into this will bring jobes back
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:41 PM
Apr 2025

Why on earth would any major company base that kind of decision on what he is doing w tariffs when he changes them up on the daily?

OAITW r.2.0

(30,737 posts)
8. There won't be a new "Golden Age of US manufacturing". Why?
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:47 PM
Apr 2025

(1) We are pretty much at full employment now.
(2) Trump is getting rid of lower cost immigrant labor.
(3) The cost to onshore manufacturing without labor means very high factory cost investments to use robotics to produce the products now imported from low labor cost countries. Which means higher costs to the consumer.

unblock

(55,685 posts)
2. No, he will not give up
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:40 PM
Apr 2025

In 90 days he will try it again. But he'll know better what he can get away with and what he can't. He'll conclude the main problem was the numbers, so next time he'll go smaller.

Plus, he'll have 90 days to consolidate power elsewhere, so he'll be stronger most likely by then.

We need to use the 90 days yo make sure his approval is in the toilet or else it will succeed next time.

albacore

(2,719 posts)
3. trump will just say that the world came crawling for him to stop, and he kindly obliged...nt
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:41 PM
Apr 2025

Mossfern

(4,431 posts)
6. My feeling is that
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 01:44 PM
Apr 2025

he knows that he was beat. He'll use the 90 days to create an even larger distraction to take attention away from his tariff failure .... destroying our and other's economies.

Look for the distraction.

intheflow

(29,797 posts)
11. The distraction will be instituting the Insurrection Act.
Wed Apr 9, 2025, 03:22 PM
Apr 2025

Sending US citizen protesters to the gulag without due process.

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