The bizarre mercantilist advance continues,
President Donald Trump threatened a major escalation in trade tensions with Beijing on Thursday, saying he was considering imposing tariffs on an additional $100 billion in imports from China, reports The Wall Street Journal.
The move would triple the amount of Chinese goods facing levies when is
Even Alan Greenspan's wife is making some sense in the era of Trump:
-Robert WenzelWhoa: @realDonaldTrump responds to China filing protest with WTO against U.S. tariffs by instructing his Trade Rep to consider 100 billion more on top of the 50 billion he's already ordered. This sure feels like a trade war...— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) April 5, 2018
The art of the steal.
ReplyDeleteHundreds of millions of people's futures at stake, and still he wrangles and wheedles as casually and unthinkingly as if he's dickering over the terms of financing a commercial land deal. Psychopathic.