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You could reconcile reciprocal tariffs with Adam Smith’s work, I would think. But you’re not operating under the delusion that Daddy’s tariffs are actually reciprocal I hope.

Had a call with one of my big Korean suppliers early this morning. They passed us a +25% increase on Friday. Got them down to +3% after I said I have a US supplier that would be only a +10% increase and would shorten my supply chain from 3 months to 6 weeks (which is worth a couple of points). So foreign supplier is paying +80% of tariff costs. They fear loss of volume far more than loss of margin.

Pining for the Long Depression era.

oh those people!

right?

Why would recent graduates need academic support?

Watching sad old fuckers pining for the pre New Deal America of their teenage years would be funny but for being tragically stupid.

”America has pretty much sucked since 1933,” Gasbag retorted.

At sometime in the last few decades, the prim yet hot librarian was converted into a commie lesbian. The beautiful downtown Portland library reading room got converted into a defacto homeless shelter.

I was alive during these events too. Some of us retain our faculties as we age. Sadly, some do not.

I also was right. Manufacturing in the USA will boom again.