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kids yelling things from the trailer out loud?

Run a piece talking about how "culturally renounced" the movie is, and how much kids are enjoying it!

That is not the official goal of the patent system in any country, and any behavior like that should be stopped.

Half Swedish. Their NYC office is just as big as the Stockholm office, and they are listed on the NYSE. Also their CEO is a huge ass and a unionbuster.

I am Swedish, btw.

Sure, let's start negotiations, you drop the tariffs while they're ongoing.

It will never work because the US will want to slash labor unions and Europe wants better product standards, but we can call his bluff.

Sure, let's start negotiations, you drop the tariffs while they're ongoing.

It will never work because the US will want to slash labor unions and Europe wants better product standards, but we can call his bluff.

Nix

2 sticks will always be faster than 4 sticks on consumer platforms.

don't send your thoughts to google

There is some contention about whether this can necessarily be attributed to the tariff. The Great Depression was already in motion before Smoot-Hawley, mainly due to financial instability, falling demand, and poor banking practices. However, the tariff worsened the crisis by shrinking global trade, hurting farmers, and reducing employment in export-dependent industries. Had it not passed, the Depression still would have occurred, but perhaps with less severity.

Monetarists, such as Milton Friedman, who emphasized the central role of the money supply in causing the depression, considered the Smoot–Hawley Act to be only a minor cause of the Great Depression in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act

yeah maybe my nuance leaned too much to the no side, but I wanted to explain tariffs a bit. Trump tariffs are not protectionism or coercion, they're just stupid.

Or Vietnam or Philippines or Malaysia

There's a legal process that they have to get right, the investigation only started last year.

There is some nuance here. Smoot-Hawley didn't cause the great depression, and there a lot of economists who say it didn't have that much of an effect at all.

Tarriffs can have some useful effects when used for protectionism, diplomatic coercion, or trade barrier reduction coercion. However, Trump's tariffs are way dumber than anything that came before, because he's trying to do all three of these at once. All of these have conflicting effects on each other, and it is literally impossible to design a tariff strategy that can accomplish all three, since raising a tariff for one purpose means that you need to lower tariffs for other purposes. All he's doing by raising across the board is causing instability in the economy and convincing all partners to ditch the US.