Yes, it's like insider trading except it's legal.. (Questionably)

Not sure it really is legal, though, in this case. If he helped people

>like Schwab, who isn't in Congress, make a bunch of money, that means that
>folks outside of the White House knew what was going to happen. Chances
>are Trump told them. Pretty sure that isn't legal. ;)

I suppose in that case his plans on world tariffs are not like knowing
what a single company is going to do, but people should know by now
how much the markets move every time he makes a change. It's the same
affect but the scope makes it a lot harder for normal people to make
any use of it, but very wealthy people certainly could..

I wonder at times if he is a twit or he thinks everyone else is
and that he can trick/manipulate them saying by ridiculous things.

He said yesterday that his tariff policies are working wonderfully
and used as proof that last week the US Markets had their biggest
one day gain in many years.. Somehow he forgot to take into account
that that huge gain was only because the market was partially
recovering from the biggest losses in ages, and are still lower
than before he took office.

We have actually been getting some intermentent news about US manufacturers

>closing plants up there. They are closing, or delaying, them here also.

There's going to be a lot of pain before you see much gain I think.

And I know we have companies here that sell 90% of their products
to the USA so they are possibly going to close completely, unable
to pick up enough buyers in other countries for their products.
And duty free store sales are way down and many small businesses
near the border that have relied of tourist dollars on both sides
of the border are in serious trouble.

Then there are companies like Apple who lost $638 Billion in
market capital in 3 days after Trump started in on China.
Those are products that a lot of Americans want to buy and
they won't appreciate paying more than double the cost for them.

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Not sure it really is legal, though, in this case. If he helped people

>like Schwab, who isn't in Congress, make a bunch of money, that means that
>folks outside of the White House knew what was going to happen. Chances
>are Trump told them. Pretty sure that isn't legal. ;)

I suppose in that case his plans on world tariffs are not like knowing
what a single company is going to do, but people should know by now
how much the markets move every time he makes a change. It's the same
affect but the scope makes it a lot harder for normal people to make
any use of it, but very wealthy people certainly could..

This is part of the reason that the ability to tariff was not supposed to
be in the hands of one person and their changing whims. That ability belongs to Congress but they decided to give "emergency powers" to Trump to allow him to determine tariffs on his own. That is a move they should be held accountable for.

I wonder at times if he is a twit or he thinks everyone else is
and that he can trick/manipulate them saying by ridiculous things.

Six of one and half dozen of the other, I think.

He said yesterday that his tariff policies are working wonderfully
and used as proof that last week the US Markets had their biggest
one day gain in many years.. Somehow he forgot to take into account
that that huge gain was only because the market was partially
recovering from the biggest losses in ages, and are still lower
than before he took office.

As long as he and his pals are making money, that is all they are concerned with.

We have actually been getting some intermentent news about US

anufacturers

>closing plants up there. They are closing, or delaying, them here also.

There's going to be a lot of pain before you see much gain I think.

Indeed.

I honestly believe that this is a "revenge tour" on US citizens for not
voting him into office in 2020. At some point, if he ever believed the election was stolen, I suspect he realized it was not.


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That smells like just propaganda from the media.

That was on our national news but Mike Powel my Sysop on this BBS

>> also heard al about it down there.

I didn't just hear it on the news, I saw the President's tweet about it. ;)

Oops, Sorry.. I don't follow tweets unless they get repeated on the news.. B)

I have a feeling things are not going to go anything like Trump hopes

>> and expects them to. He won't be in power for enough years to pull
>> you out of a borderline recession as he tries to take on the world.

It is already costing us some jobs, or at least delaying them. A tech

>giant... M$ or Google... has put a multi-billion dollar investment in Ohio
>on hold due to the tariffs, which is costing Ohio potential jobs. Another
>company has put a battery plant in Kentucky on hold for the same reason.
>It was supposed to bring a bunch of jobs.

Yes, we are seeing the same things here. It's bad enough we lost over
30,000 jobs in one industry last month but now we keep hearing about
business expansions or new ones planning to move here that are being
cancelled, or at least postponed..

Right.. he's offered us 2 ways out of it. To either move all our

>> car plants to the USA, and lose 125,000 direct jobs and many times
>> that support jobs, or join the USA as the 51st state..

Two pretty crappy alternatives. ;)

I'm not sure you, as an American, should call joining you 'crappy'.. B)

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This is part of the reason that the ability to tariff was not supposed to

>be in the hands of one person and their changing whims. That ability belongs
>to Congress but they decided to give "emergency powers" to Trump to allow him
>to determine tariffs on his own. That is a move they should be held
>accountable for.

Well, if not earlier it may turn into an emergency soon.. B)

I honestly believe that this is a "revenge tour" on US citizens for not

>voting him into office in 2020. At some point, if he ever believed the
>election was stolen, I suspect he realized it was not.

Sore loser.. B)

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Two pretty crappy alternatives. ;)

I'm not sure you, as an American, should call joining you 'crappy'.. B)

I would imagine that, for a successful sovereign country, it wouldn't be a great thing. ;)


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Two pretty crappy alternatives. ;)

I'm not sure you, as an American, should call joining you 'crappy'.. B)

I would imagine that, for a successful sovereign country, it wouldn't be a

>great thing. ;)

Not according to Greenland anyways.. B)

No, I think a lot of the world thinks Canada and the USA are pretty similar
but there are a lot of fundamental differences between us. Not so much
that we can't be good friends and neighbours (usually) but there are differences that both of our people would not want to change over to
given the opportunity. Most Canadians I know who moved there for, say,
a higher paying job and the promise of lower taxes didn't stay very long.

But of course some do move, in both directions, and stay..
You can never speak for everyone..

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