What exactly is Canada being stubborn on ? We sell Heavy Oil to your refineries who sell it at a huge profit. Remove that item we run a LARGE TRADE DEFICIT with the US. So should we stop sending you Oil and then get tough on you because you are 'ripping us off on trade' ( you know, the bs Trump rhetoric ). All you are doing here is parroting the absolute bs that Trump says about trade. Because it's complete crap there is no way to address it except make it abundantly clear to the American public why you trade with Canada. You apparently are clueless, so I don't hold much hope for you to ever understand this. Trump unfortunately is the same hence he crashed stock markets and keeps saying nonsensical things about making deals.
i voted for cheetos in 2017 because i really dislike hillary, that was my mistake. i like elon very much and own tsla stocks at cost basis under 30 since his shanghai factory opened and sold covered call year-end, the premiums itself is a tsla y. that's how capitalism works, not exclusively but inclusively. empires rise and fall, some are fortunate to see the rise and some are unfortunate to see the fall. not sure where we are at but the empire is under stress with this guy.
Canada isn't crying at all. In fact, we have told Trump in no uncertain terms you better behave or we will hit you where it hurts. And we won't stop hitting you until you stop your trade war. I'm all for cutting off heavy Oil, electricity, and metal exports to the US. Slap on some export taxes. You can source those from ... China ? Iran ? Russia ? Elbows Up. How stupid are you ?
Not even a few tears? Sorry but Canada better behave or pay the price. USA is not putting up with their shenanigans any longer. You have been warned. Yes, stop all exports to us. That will be great. Could you start like yesterday. Across the board export "0" products to USA. Hop to it.
Exactly, it's not like Vietnam forced Nike to move their factories there. Even if now the US government forced Nike to move their factories back to the US, the shoes would be way more expensive than keeping the factories in Vietnam and paying the 40%+ tariff
If factory in US: we get the jobs. We get the product for our use and to export if anyone wants it. We get the money. So bring on the tariffs and bring back the factories. Equation: Jobs+product+money = American wealth created. Paying higher wages will also mean more revenue for government and more domestic money to buy more products produced here! Sounds good to me. Better to be a producing nation than just a consumer nation.
And you seem to have finally discovered the holy grail of economics: just slap tariffs on everything, build factories out of thin air, triple everyone's wages, and boom! Infinite American wealth. Why didn’t every country think of that? I mean, think about it. Workers get paid more, government rakes in cash, consumers happily pay triple—and somehow inflation just politely sits this one out. Truly groundbreaking stuff, right? Somebody get this man a Nobel Prize. Or, at least, put him in charge of the Federal Reserve. Clearly we've all been doing economics wrong.
I think many MAGA folks have just nostalgia of their youth and somehow fetishize factories as the solution to their (mostly imagined) economic problems.