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Let's just look at some facts about beans.

Soybeans is the largest export from USA to China. USA is China's second largest source of soybean imports. China has officially decided to put fingers in both ears in regards to Trump's flip flopping on tariffs. Trump has no power over China's domestic tariffs

Well. I don't know what soybean farmers want from Trump, because there's nothing he can do to fix the thing he broke.

!lemmysilver

This is something EU could work together to fix.

Just give me one portal to book the entire trip on one ticket from point A to B, with the options to change the route if a train or bus is running too late for a transfer etc.

Everything is a table if you're brave enough.

I know, but I'm not a rally driver so it won't make much difference to me.

I'm skipping that this year. My summer tires wore out last year, so now I'll wear out the winter tires.by driving the during summer. Next time I'll get all year tires.

Both.

Copied from various sources elsewhere:

Consumer confidence is a catch-all phrase for the opinions and attitudes of consumers about the current and future strength of the economy.

Consumer confidence index (CCI) is a standardised confidence indicator providing an indication of future developments of households’ consumption and saving.

The Consumer Confidence Index is based on the Consumer Confidence Survey, which has a responding sample size of 3,000 questionnaires. The survey was initially conducted every two months starting in 1967 but changed to monthly tracking in 1977.

There are five questions asked in the survey. The first two relate to present economic conditions while the remaining three are related to future expectations.

There's congestion in German cities too. The point isn't to drive away. During rettungsgasse, nobody goes anywhere. They just make way by stopping to the sides.

The problem in NY is that the cars are too big for the lanes to do that.

Yes sure.

Now, if you look at the change from the beginning of Trump's first term where the tariffs were increased by 10% points (from 10% to 20%) and to the end of Biden's term in which Trump's tariffs were maintained, the imports dropped by 100 billion - regardless of COVID.

That could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what you want to talk about.

But.. now Trump increases the tariffs by an additional 114% points. (From 20% to 134%)

Assuming there is a correlation between tariffs and imports, which is the very point of doing it according to Trump, that would mean that imports would have to drop 1140 billion. This is obviously not possible from a 400 billion import, so it's essentially putting a full stop to all trades with China.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Well. It's great that USA is not paying China, but... where does USA get stuff from then? 400 billion dollars worth of stuff not being available in USA will definitely cause all kinds of issues.

I think that is optimistic. Here's another graph:

Look at this graph:

So.. draw your own conclusions.

I initially wrote a long analysis, but then I figured that these numbers are quite big to fuck around with. We'll find out soon enough.