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trochetier

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dlaloum said:
The techniques to both improve quality and reduce costs were developed in the USA - look up Deming...
US manufacturers weren't interested... he took his work to Japan, and the car companies there, adopted it in full...
Within a few years, their quality went up dramatically, AND their costs went down.

The methods travelled to Europe, to Korea, and only started taking hold in the USA, in the 1990's....

Look at European factory workers, their wages aren't that far off from US worker wages, the cost of labour is not the only ingredient in the mix - and China is not the only point of comparison.
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Good point Edward Deming, Japanese eagerly learned and adopted statistical methods in manufacturing. How sad here he was laughed off by Detroit when he tried to convince them to adopt the same.

In addition the Japanese sense of aesthetics has a lot to do with their product quality and fit and finish. This even trickles down to simple things like pharmaceutical tablet appearance. I worked for a quintessential Japanese company and my team was based in Japan all Japanese of course.
 
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trochetier said:
Who is winning the trade war?
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www.nbcnews.com

Democratic senators call for investigation into Elon Musk’s foreign Starlink deals

In a letter Friday to President Donald Trump, several Democratic senators accused Musk of “the possibility of self-dealing” while in government.
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Asking Trump to investigate Musk's self-dealing is beyond ironic.
 
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GO-NAD! said:
www.nbcnews.com

Democratic senators call for investigation into Elon Musk’s foreign Starlink deals

In a letter Friday to President Donald Trump, several Democratic senators accused Musk of “the possibility of self-dealing” while in government.
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com

Asking Trump to investigate Musk's self-dealing is beyond ironic.
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As an example of my own motivated reasoning that could be laying the ground for investigations if/when the Democrats takes control of one of the Congressional houses, or the Presidency.

Also, I think that the Democrats should (quietly?) make clear that there are limits to quiescence/support of Trump and trespassing those limits will have consequences when they once again are in power.
 
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Musk wins more -
www.nytimes.com

Trump Proposes Slashing Domestic Spending to the Lowest Level of the Modern Era

The president’s $1.7 trillion discretionary budget blueprint would cut $163 billion for the 2026 fiscal year, offering an outline of his vision for Washington and dramatically curtailing the role and reach of the federal government.
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Expand the first section to read details.
"....Some of Mr. Trump’s proposed military increases could benefit Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who has advised Mr. Trump on cost-cutting as part of the Department of Government Efficiency"
 
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Mr._Clark

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Trump said he had already made 200 trade deals in an interview with Time on April 22:

>>>Not one [trade deal] has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals.

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%.<<<

time.com

Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview

President Trump discussed his trade war and the economy, immigration, presidential power, and more
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Trump today.

>>>“We don’t have to sign deals.”

“Everyone says ‘When, when, when are you going to sign deals?’” Mr. Trump said, at one point motioning toward Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary. “We don’t have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.” . . . Mr. Trump predicted the first deals could be signed this week. But administration officials also made that prediction the week before that, and the week before that.<<<


It's hard to believe (sarcasm alert), but it turns out Trump has been lying his *ss off about impending trade deals in an effort to prop up the markets.
 
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Mr._Clark said:
Trump said he had already made 200 trade deals in an interview with Time on April 22:

>>>Not one [trade deal] has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals.

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%.<<<

time.com

Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview

President Trump discussed his trade war and the economy, immigration, presidential power, and more
time.com time.com

Trump today.

>>>“We don’t have to sign deals.”

“Everyone says ‘When, when, when are you going to sign deals?’” Mr. Trump said, at one point motioning toward Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary. “We don’t have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.” . . . Mr. Trump predicted the first deals could be signed this week. But administration officials also made that prediction the week before that, and the week before that.<<<


It's hard to believe (sarcasm alert), but it turns out Trump has been lying his *ss off about impending trade deals in an effort to prop up the markets.
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He's vacillated among various numbers pulled out of his butthole.
 
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Mr._Clark said:
Trump said he had already made 200 trade deals in an interview with Time on April 22:

>>>Not one [trade deal] has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them?

I’ve made 200 deals.

You’ve made 200 deals?

100%.<<<

time.com

Read the Full Transcript of Trump’s ‘100 Days’ Interview

President Trump discussed his trade war and the economy, immigration, presidential power, and more
time.com time.com

Trump today.

>>>“We don’t have to sign deals.”

“Everyone says ‘When, when, when are you going to sign deals?’” Mr. Trump said, at one point motioning toward Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary. “We don’t have to sign deals. We could sign 25 deals right now, Howard, if we wanted to. We don’t have to sign deals. They have to sign deals with us. They want our market. We don’t want a piece of their market. We don’t care about their market.” . . . Mr. Trump predicted the first deals could be signed this week. But administration officials also made that prediction the week before that, and the week before that.<<<


It's hard to believe (sarcasm alert), but it turns out Trump has been lying his *ss off about impending trade deals in an effort to prop up the markets.
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We're making all kinds of deals by they wanting our market, but we don't want anything to do with their market. 200 deals(!) by willing countries.;)

I'd been saying this for a while now. First it was 35 calls in a day. Now it's up to 200.
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A federal court just ruled that Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs.

>>>A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to tax imports from nearly every country around the world.

The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump, undercutting his primary leverage as he looks to pressure other nations into striking trade deals more beneficial to the United States.

Before Mr. Trump took office, no president had sought to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law, to impose tariffs on other nations. The law, which primarily concerns trade embargoes and sanctions, does not even mention tariffs.<<<(emphasis added)


The orange howler will no doubt beat his chest and declare that he alone is God, and that he cannot be restrained by laws written by lesser beings.
 
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Mr._Clark said:
A federal court just ruled that Trump exceeded his authority to impose tariffs.

>>>A panel of federal judges on Wednesday blocked President Trump from imposing some of his steepest tariffs on China and other U.S. trading partners, finding that federal law did not grant him “unbounded authority” to tax imports from nearly every country around the world.

The ruling, by the U.S. Court of International Trade, delivered an early yet significant setback to Mr. Trump, undercutting his primary leverage as he looks to pressure other nations into striking trade deals more beneficial to the United States.

Before Mr. Trump took office, no president had sought to invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law, to impose tariffs on other nations. The law, which primarily concerns trade embargoes and sanctions, does not even mention tariffs.<<<(emphasis added)


The orange howler will no doubt beat his chest and declare that he alone is God, and he that cannot be retrained by laws written my lesser beings.
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I'm curios as to whether or not tariffs collected already have to be paid back as they are deemed illegal, assuming any appeal does not overturn this ruling.

And it's not some "far left radical judges" either giving this ruling as they were appointed by Trump, Obama and Reagan.

>>>Judge Jane Restani was appointed to the US Court of International Trade by President Ronald Reagan. Judge Gary Katzmann was appointed to the court by President Barack Obama. Judge Timothy Reif was appointed by President Trump. <<<

 
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this trade war stuff is like a 'sine wave out of control' !

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Appeals court reinstates Trump's tariffs

Wednesday's surprise ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade had threatened to kill or at least delay the imposition of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, as well as import levies on goods from Canada, Mexico and China related to his accusation that the three...
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Mikado463 said:
this trade war stuff is like a 'sine wave out of control' !

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Appeals court reinstates Trump's tariffs

Wednesday's surprise ruling by the U.S. Court of International Trade had threatened to kill or at least delay the imposition of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, as well as import levies on goods from Canada, Mexico and China related to his accusation that the three...
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Yeah, the CAFC temporarily paused the CIT decision, but a district court also blocked the tariffs that were based on the IEEPA.

>>>A second federal court blocked the bulk of President Trump’s tariffs on Thursday, ruling he cannot claim unilateral authority to impose them by declaring emergencies over trade deficits and fentanyl.

The ruling from U.S District Judge Rudolph Contreras, an appointee of former President Obama who serves in the nation’s capital, comes hours after the U.S. Court of International Trade similarly blocked a series of Trump’s tariff announcements.<<< (emphasis added)


The district court judge paused his own preliminary injunction for 2 weeks. This is a very unusual situation. I'm not sure if the CAFC will grant an indefinite pause in the district court case despite the 2 week pause by the judge.

We might know more tomorrow. Or not.
 
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