Donald Trump's chief trade adviser called the news "the best negative print I have ever seen in my life."
  • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.worldEnglish
    441·
    2 个月前

    If you live in the US and are not wealthy, stock up on rice, beans, lentils, and spices now. As much as you can reasonably afford. You will be glad you did.

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          Urban pigeons and rats are definitely NOT a safe food. They’re full of chemical pollution that you can’t cook out, and probably more than a few diseases which you might also catch. It beats starving to death, but you should consider basically anything else, including boiling your (vegetable tanned) leather belts and shoes.

        • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          Ah fuck, I just threw a dead mouse away a couple weeks ago. I’m gonna be kicked out of the community for wasting food soon. 3 people could’ve ate with that.

      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
        English
        20·
        2 个月前

        When all of the regulations go out the window, affordable or not, food quality is going to slide into the dumpster.

        • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
          211·
          2 个月前

          Quality maybe but there’s no reason domestically produced food should go up a lot. The fact that China refused tons of pork and soy beans imports from America means there will be a glut and that means terrible finances for farmers but hardly expensive food.

        • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
          212·
          2 个月前

          Most food in the US is domestically produced, so no. The US is a huge exporter of food outside of specialty goods and tropical things.

          • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 个月前

            You’re not giving capitalism enough credit. Corporations and businesses are not altruistic. If they can get away with slowly raising prices to increase profit margins, they will.

            That’s a hell of a lot easier to actually achieve when you don’t have foreign produce acting as competition and consequently sanity-checking domestic prices. Foreign suppliers implicitly set a ceiling for how much a product can cost since the market would shift to using them if they became the cheaper option.

            To make matters worse, tariffs are a very nice excuse for retailers to raise prices across the board using the excuse that “it costs us more to get it, so it has to cost you more to buy it.” If we’re lucky, they’ll raise foreign goods by the exact amount they’re paying more for them and only choose to raise domestic good prices (for profit) by only some fraction of that amount.

        • MDCCCLV@lemmy.caEnglish
          01·
          2 个月前

          The dollar is internal and farmers make annual purchases so they will have already bought their stuff they need for this season so they shouldn’t be too affected by exchange rates. The US makes its own oil and derivatives like fertilizer and farm equipment so they shouldn’t be too affected for now.

          • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            The dollar is internal

            What does this even mean? You think the US has complete control over what the dollar is worth? Because that’s utter nonsense.

      • Feelfold@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        2 个月前

        Either a bot or: Tell me you played sportsball in a small town highschool without telling me you played sportsball in a small town in highschool!

        Whoever let gave you a passing grade in economics only did it so you could ahoot the game winning 3 point score.

  • MyOpinion@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    2 个月前

    Yes we know MAGAts black is white, up is down and the Orange Turd is a genius. We don’t don’t believe you.

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 个月前

    We had a 22 percent increase in domestic investment.

    That’s good, it really is, but that in and of itself doesn’t mean much. Industrial production left the US for a reason. What’s changed? The cost of living has only gone up, especially housing, which means the cost of domestic labor is still going to be much higher than many other countries, so how do these US producers plan to turn this new capital investment into a profitable enterprise? How are they going to profitably produce quality goods that Americans can actually afford? Are they only going to make luxury goods for the highest income Americans? If so, who’s going to serve the middle and the bottom income levels?

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
      13·
      2 个月前

      It is precisely like when Russia’s currency tanked like a stricken submarine, which meant their PPP-adjusted GDP shot up the rankings and became one of the highest numbers in the world, which all the tankies promptly seized upon and used as an example of why the sanctions are actually helping Russia, by boosting its domestic economy, which is why everything is going great.

    • Galapagon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 个月前

      Maybe slave labor. Or possibly something that actively steals wealth. Like, buying out mortgages then telling families to triple up in the house to cover less food and higher rent. Basically whatever you can imagine that makes things worse for most of us is probably the plan.

  • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    For the billionaires planning on buying everything up to finish Russiafying our Oligarchy it’s a great thing.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    I expect that Navarro will be needing to do a “high prices are good news” bit once stockpiled goods in warehouses in the US also run dry.

    If Trump thought that this statement would be a political winner, I suspect that he’d be doing it himself, rather than having Navarro doing so. Right now, the only thing that Trump’s currently seeing net positives in the polls I’ve most-recently seen is his immigration policy. Not on the economy.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 个月前

    Not a crazy thing to say if you don‘t particularly like the USA which I have to assume he doesn‘t.

  • huppakee@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    2 个月前

    That’s because all bad news is fake news now, everybody deserves the freedom to choose their own truth! /s

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      The moment you realize you’re getting a golden shower from Trump who didn’t drink enough water.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Hmm you should probably head to your basement if you have one if that’s the case lolol

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 个月前

    “I know we cut off both your arms, and while that may seem inconvenient at first, it’s a good thing because we helped you lose weight!”