it would make more sense for me to buy out tw and victor.
frankj1 wrote:
I'm very expensive.
victor809 wrote:
my people have deep resources
I'm one of the least knowledgeable people here on the subject of economics, .
You didn’t have to tell us that
izonfire wrote:
but I am good wif words.
not so good wif numbahs.
Wuz countin on ya word
If I was Frankie, i would eliminate the competition.
tonygraz wrote:
I am the Walmart of lemonade...
or I could just call Drafter to reason with them.
.... v@ginas too.... you know... to accommodate the tripod.
What? What? Not the Del's of Lemonade?
Get production over to China....
Why? They don't pay their workers and they don't follow environmental regulations so ...
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opelmanta1900 wrote:
I always had a sneaking suspicion that the Chinese were Republican
in the list of large untapped emerging markets, Africa was not mentioned.
China has been paving roads deep into the continent while we snooze.
I thought that too when Vic mentioned the global market inroads China is making.
China started targeting Africa back in the 50's and '60's if not earlier. When European countries were finding colonies more trouble than they were worth. I seem to remember an article in Time or Newsweek back in maybe the 80's that told a pretty convincing story of how were ignoring Africa, China was stepping in and we were oblivious because most here wouldn't give ****hole countries a second thought.
We can't fix a pothole, yet the Chinese are building infrastructure from Germany to Beijing and from Suez to Singapore via all of east Africa and the sub-continent.
Up 300+ today.
Meh.
MACS wrote:
I hope you are right.
My issues with China have been more about how they want to play the global economy game, but won't do it without cheating.
Willfully disregarding intellectual property rights is fn huge
Currency manipulation may be a right....but they use it to unfair advantage that should be countered
Subsidizing industries is something everyone does to some extent. But the Chinese have applied Bezos-ness to their efforts; subsidize so much that they can sell at a loss long enough to gain total dominance of market share -- that isn't about protecting domestic anything..its about attempt to gain global domination of a market --- at the expense of others...not because they are better, but because they cheat
I'm still ambivalent about recent tariffs - maybe because I don't see them as big economic swing things -- just blunt tools of Trump's 'deal-making'. I don't believe there will be significant long-term tariffs -- just short term ones to try to elicit concessions -- whether he gets real concessions or just surface scratching ones....either way, tariffs will be eased with claims of greatest victory in history of the universe...and the taxes....I mean tariffs...will be rolled back
I don't know if the tariffs are a good or bad thing at this point. But why lie about how they work if they are good.
