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everyone bounce back from the last great depression eventually the poor will suffer and lost all their property some of the rich will get much richer

I finished the "Lower Decks" episode of TNG and I can see how they could do a series with this theme. One of the best episodes of the show.

they should have used their service tax weapon and put high tariffs for targeted products to kill exports from republican controlled states and lowers tariffs for democratic controlled states to cause internal turmoil in USA. Also offer zero tariffs for Mexico and Canada. Make deals with India and Brazil, decrease tariffs for Australian beef. Look deals with Argentina and Vietnam. Offer support for Taiwan, Korea and Japan. Offer massive investment funds for companies that build semiconductor and battery factories in EU. This would lead short term lost but long term independence and better competition on markets. Current deal offers short term stability but long term losses both in European manufacturing and global trade. But clearly EU's leadership is trying to give Trump political wins in order to avoid facing their past idiocies.

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That's the point @uuuhhii was making. People just promise Trump eleventy billion billion dollars in investments that will never materialize and he agrees to screw over the local automobile companies to sell a quick win now that his base is falling apart over electing a pdf file. Personally I find that rather hilarious - I mean cognitive dissonance or not, people knew who and what Trump is. It is bewildering to see even the QAnon Shaman being weirded out by Trump's handling of the Epstein list and its implications. You're too hung up on the word bribe. Yes, relenting and giving the US meaningless wins so Trump agrees to lower tariffs isn't bribery in the legal sense. Not that anyone in the Trump administration would be stopped by doing something illegal, but one can dream of a world where actions being illegal isn't the stopping point for politicians. There's still an ethical layer that used to sit well above the legal one. Alas, o tempora, o mores.

Its a good question and its an interesting one but its also very complex and nuanced because US debt is not the "simple " debt we know about. Like when anyone borrows from the IMF its easy to understand because the money is owed to the IMF Here is a good link that breaks down the US debt and how its structured https://www.pgpf.org/article/the-federal-government-has-borrowed-trillions-but-who-owns-all-that-debt/ Most of the US debt is owed to various domestic US institutions " At the end of December 2024, the nation’s gross debt totaled $36 trillion. Of that amount, $29 trillion, or 80 percent, was debt held by the public — representing cash borrowed from domestic and foreign investors. The remaining $7 trillion (20 percent) was intragovernmental debt, which simply records transactions between one part of the federal government and another. Domestic holdings of federal debt have increased notably over the past decade, rising from $7.0 trillion in December 2014 to $20.3 trillion at the end of December 2024. The Federal Reserve, which purchases and sells Treasury securities as a means to influence federal interest rates and the nation’s money supply, is the largest holder of such debt." So if the US " collapses " its greatest debt holders are itself So nothing can happen because the bigger problem would be its own collapse Im not sure if Im explaining it properly But that wouldnt be our concern, we all would be dealing with the massive global economic consequence of an economically failed USA. It would make the Great Depression seem like a picnic

Can't believe the nerve of some of these Arbitraitors.

seem like everyone finally figure out how to bribe the new dumber version of usa pool investment that are already going to happen or simply doesn't exist together for a impressive big number as long as usa get to brag about their ability to extort weaker nation everything is fine

Almost finished with Bleach (- filler arcs)*, at the Fullbring mini arc. I'd say it's probably one of the better shonens of it's day, which may be slight praise but it's praise nonetheless. Probably won't work for you if you dislike shonen out of hand but it's good popcorn watching akin to a good action movie or series. I'm going to take a break before TYBW because I just don't like watching weekly. *I think skipping the filler is doing a lot of work, because by god is there a lot of it and it's trash. The whole Bount arc is a terrible speed bump and swerving off from the main story for 20+ episode arcs is not good.

I watched Dandadan episode 4... Thought long and hard about how to summarize events in the episode in a meaningful way. In the end I was just giggling like a maniac going "screw this", it's just not possible 😵‍💫 Something about volcanoes, giant earthworms, crime families, martial arts priests who dreams of becoming social media stars, aliens, romance, the fastest known mannequin joining the fight, granny Seiko dishing out the hurt with a baseball bat... you name it.

RIP Hogan. He was a big part of growing up watching wrestling in the 'Rock & Wrestling' period (which partially coincided with the period after WWE bought & tanked the local wrestling promotion and Ted Turner started WCW). But the last few decades have not been kind to his legacy.

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EU needs to find new export markets because of this deal. For example 70% of Finnish exporting small business companies say that 15% tariffs will remove their ability to work in US market. Only companies that already have production in US say that they are able to continue the trade with the US. So getting 15% instead of 30% is next nothing. Avoiding trade war with US does mainly help the those businesses that don't have competition in US market, so they will not suffer from the tariffs. Other businesses needs to find new customers, because they can't live with profit margins that they get from US trade. Increasing trade with Mexico and Canada would help with exports. India, Brazil, Australia and Argentina would help also with exports, but it would also help with products where we EU has given import quota to US, to move that quota import quota to other countries. Putting tariffs for GOP states would force GOP politician in congress to do some thing or risk billions of dollars worth of trade in their states, as US companies could just continue with 0% tariff trade with EU by moving to democratic state, which would cause internal conflict in US that would make trade war more difficult to run. But anyway this was victory for European nationalist parties, as it showed that EU failed to protect EU's trade and it does not help to say it could have been worst when they failed to get single positive change in their negotiation.

This was bad deal for EU and we will most likely see increase of support of Russia and China among politician and people, as deal does not have single positive change for EU it has only negative impacts compared to current state and it does not even guarantee long term agreement or that USA does not try to blackmail with withdrawing their military support or putting punitive tariffs. I am not sure that this deal will give even USA any clear benefits. Only positive thing that economist can say about deal is that it decreases instability on market, but even that is questionable as US and EU politician don't seem to agree are cars and medicines part of the deal. So at end day deal is bad faith deal and only reason it exists is that it is seen better than market instability, but it will create most likely create much more market chaos in coming years as it almost guarantees win for anti-eu, anti nato and pro russia/china parties in next elections, because it will increase unemployment rates, national debts, cause decrease in tax income. And it will work as example how EU can't even do the main thing why it exits. $600bn (£446bn), including American military equipment, and spend $750bn on energy - this is also empty claim as it does not have any legality, although EU countries were already planning to buy military equipment as part of their plan to increase defense spending and lack of European options. With energy question is very big question mark, as even though some EU countries are planning to buy US gas and oil to replace gas and oil that they have bought from Russia, $750bn is absurd sum, considering that USA capacity to sell LGN is ~4 billion square meters, which is about 1% of gas that EU uses in year. So USA should increase their LGN exports to 10x (current plan is to double export capacity to 2028) what is now and still it would take over 20 years to spent that $750bn (currently EU countries uses 310 billion euros year to buy oil and 90 billion euros to buy gas). this was 2.5% before April, so this is not win for EU carmakers in anyway. Estimated impact for them is massive loss, only compensated by fact that for some reason USA carmakers are currently suffering from higher tariffs, but this will anyway will case decrease of sales.

What happens if/when a country goes bankrupt? I.e the moment they can no longer service their sovereign debt, what happens then? I remember Sri Lanka, but that one was in such a sorry state anyway that its unlikely anyone noticed and one African country being bailed out by the IMF within the last decade, but if the debt is beyond the means of any single institution, what would happen then? 🤔

Got it. I've reached out to Aleksandrs over on Nexus asking about the 5 or so files in his economy mod that conflict with yours. However it turns out I'm sure it will be no problem. I'm set to get started on my journey. Thanks again for replying, sir. And thank you for the fantastic work.

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