Primer on Trump negotiation

@wildgrass said
Are you coming back to update the thread?

That would be silly. I doubt he would since he knows, like I do, that it goes up and down, has been for a 100 years.
Sonhouse says from what I gathered that it is not going to go up anymore.

100 years.................................................

@Cliff-Mashburn said
China imports are crap anyway.
Just go to youtube and search for Chinese products falling apart during first time use.

I agree with that but of course investors are cold on the idea that the price of iPhones will double.

@AverageJoe1 said
That would be silly. I doubt he would since he knows, like I do, that it goes up and down, has been for a 100 years.
Sonhouse says from what I gathered that it is not going to go up anymore.

100 years.................................................

Markets rise and fall based on economic trends. When's the last time a crash like this was caused by a singular government action ?

@wildgrass said
Markets rise and fall based on economic trends. When's the last time a crash like this was caused by a singular government action ?

I don’t know. You should look that up, a curious notion. I have noticed that the ones that are all encompassing , like the malaise of Carter, 2008 housing bubble, the subprime loans,etc, take longer than the single causes ( like today). This one won’t last very long. My 2 cents.

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Airpods are designed in California and assembled in Vietnam and India.

@sonhouse said
That is a well known problem. China's GNP is calculated by what they produce, not what they sell so if they have to make a million widgets to get a thousand out the door, they report the value of a million widgets as GNP not the thousand actually sold, and the quality control is very bad and they know it so if it does take a thousand builds to put one out the door, so be it.

Sounds fine to me, though. Gross National Sales should be GNS.

@Suzianne said
That's not a metaphor, which you like to use.

It is a simile. Very different.

You are on the path to redemption already.

@AverageJoe1 said

A REAL win out of this is that these countries become trading partners, our friends, which means........China will be isolated.

Friends of a big bully?

Have you ever heard this: "If you step on people on the way up, they might kick you on your way down." ?

While you and Trump are playing checkers, China is playing weiqi.

@Arkturos said
Friends of a big bully?

Have you ever heard this: "If you step on people on the way up, they might kick you on your way down." ?

While you and Trump are playing checkers, China is playing weiqi.

China would be playing GO. Trump is playing dart board, he is too stupid to even play checkers.

@sonhouse said
China would be playing GO. Trump is playing dart board, he is too stupid to even play checkers.

Yes, but "weiqi" is the Chinese name for GO -- I think there are some slight differences in the rules.

And please let's not insult the dart players. 😉

@Arkturos said
Yes, but "weiqi" is the Chinese name for GO -- I think there are some slight differences in the rules.

And please let's not insult the dart players. 😉

Ok, I kinda thought that but wasn't sure.

@sonhouse said
Ok, I kinda thought that but wasn't sure.

We are all learning together, my senior. 😉

@Arkturos said
We are all learning together, my senior. 😉

You know, I was a Fort Richardson hospital when I was in the USAF with a bad case of influenza and a general was in the same ward and took to me and taught me to play Go.
I was always into games like chess and so I added Go to the list.

@sonhouse said
You know, I was a Fort Richardson hospital when I was in the USAF with a bad case of influenza and a general was in the same ward and took to me and taught me to play Go.
I was always into games like chess and so I added Go to the list.

Thank you. That's interesting to learn. I'll send you a PM to continue.

@sonhouse said
You know, I was a Fort Richardson hospital when I was in the USAF with a bad case of influenza and a general was in the same ward and took to me and taught me to play Go.
I was always into games like chess and so I added Go to the list.

During my one month at Fort McLellan as a Specialist 4 (US Reg Army) who was being out-processed for being too near-sighted to have been let in in the first place, I had some chest congestion and so bought some Sudafed at the PX, as well as a plastic tumbler and some powdered iced-tea mix -- all of which were probably contraband.

An interesting thing is that along with us few rejects, there was a guy who lived in our little dorm who was a quarterstaff master and demonstrator. I didn't get to see any of his demonstrations, though.