It is interesting watching people slowly realizing, they made a very bad choice and now feel the consequences...
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Apple Stock Sell-Off Continues After China Unveils Matching Tariffs
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In the long term Apple may need to create regional manufacturing hubs geared towards each local market with plants in the US, China, India and Europe.
It’s not a huge ask, lots of other companies do that to get around existing import and export restrictions. For example the car companies have plants around the world for this very reason.
It’s not a huge ask, lots of other companies do that to get around existing import and export restrictions. For example the car companies have plants around the world for this very reason.
Literally the only sane forward thinking comment I’ve read. Trying to fight the urge to go all in now or wait to see if I can get a better deal later.
Hmm... Vietnam... Afghanistan ... those were true victories
It definitely looks that way. But the millions who put him in office without batting an eye, just because he teased impossibilities like how he was gonna "end inflation", are far worse than he:
Harris did not waste an opportunity to point to the several many renowned economists who were warning us about the direction Trump would go in during his 2nd term.
But neither Harris nor any renowned specialist with years or decades of experience is Donald Trump. So all of that was pretty much in vain.
But then again, Trump himself discussed tariffs extensively during the 2024 election. So even if you wouldn't take it from Harris & the Deep State, Trump was happy to talk about it.
He talked about sweeping new tariffs on imports from various countries, including a 10% tariff on all imports and higher rates for specific countries like China and the European Union.
Trump is wealthier than ever before, literally winning every day. His voters are the true idiots, losing more and more every day and dragging everyone else down with them.
Apple has an opportunity to gain market share in the United States as its Android and Windows PC rivals have much slimmer operating margins. Apple has already been doing this quietly by keeping U.S. prices more or less the same for several years and even reducing the price of the base M4 MacBook Air. Apple should go for it. Once people switch to Apple products, they tend to remain loyal.
The Republican controlled Congress could halt this mess at any time.
Trump is playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.
It’s not the military who is weak, my dude … It’s the general population and political class. Iraq and Afghanistan were failures because the military was kept on a short leash the entire time. War is not the same anymore, the U.S. has not won a war since 1945 because every war (or more correctly - “conflict”) after that has been wildly televised. War is a terrible, terrible thing and the general population does not have the stomach for it. So televising it and putting that hell directly in weak people’s faces results in opposition - which results in political pressure - which results in halfassery. Remember the “hearts and minds” BS of Iraq and Afghanistan. That is why we didn’t win, because our troops were used as political pawns, to pass out candy and **** to little kids and not as the lethal weapons that they were trained to be.
Not really. They could go down even further. Who knows what the share price will be in a week.
So many that voted for him were literally just doing it on vibes.
It's shocking how much of society has devolved into high school like behavior, where their only care is "sticking it to those they hate" --- even when it sticks them as well.
I don't know how we got here.
America has reached a low point on maturity and intellectualism that I didn't think we'd ever be reverting to.
Trump is in the corner eating crayons.
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
I think any big Cat’s would be more picky of their dinner table.
He/She are looking at something else, and probably just ponder if she have the time to kill them as they are in her way 😉
I'm glad you quoted Carl -- he was all over it, well before it was seen by most anyone else.
I think even he would be surprised in this current moment.
One used to be able to count on "greed" in America, at least.
How all the financial savants somehow misread Trump on his economic intentions is beyond me.
I guess it just boils down to how often he'd cry wolf and/or capitulate on issues, and so they figured "surely he's not dumb enough to destroy the economy and the USA standing in the world"
(Trump) "hold my non-alcoholic beer"
The Gulf War was a decisive victory for the allies.
If they are so terrible why was everyone applying them to us?
This seems to be the plan
Basically everyone posting here (not you Tim Cook) is SOL
Basically everyone posting here (not you Tim Cook) is SOL
North Korea is not on the tariffs list so we are safe from little rocket man for now.