"But Trumps tariffs are simply a tax on U.S. businesses and consumers."

I'm afraid you rather badly misunderstand the nature of the tariffs. Tariffs will increase inflation, little doubt. But it also increases internal economic activity and therefore jobs. Jobs that have been exported overseas by the free trade mantra for 30 years. Those jobs are coming back.

You might want to look out for big business etc but Trump is looking out for workers. Its what the MAGA revolution is all about. If you don't get that you're going to spend the next 4 years being awfully confused.

The Russian economy is unravelling with inflation at around 20% and interest rates higher still. Putin desperately needs the peace that Trump will impose.

China likewise is in serious economic strife and can ill-afford the hit that Trump's tariffs will bring.

"Here's some Headlines for you."
Still falling for the youtube charlatans I see.

Armchair Critic said "Ah Sean Foo, First of all many YouTube content creators have sponsors, simply to earn more money, so I'm not sure that in itself means anything."

A- I get the impression that Sean Foo is a 'committed gay' Marxist Singaporean from Monash University and studied Arts and Accounting in Melbourne.
I suppose Melbourne is the "gay Marxist" centre of Australia (or maybe Canberra).
Singapore does have a lot of Socialist policies such as housing too, in spite of it's reputation as a key business hub, ship and air facilities, etc. Singapore has fairly totalitarian laws too.

I agree with Armchair Critic that having sponsors may not mean anything on it's own, but mhaze is correct too, it's a smoking gun.
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mhaze said- "You might want to look out for big business etc but Trump is looking out for workers. Its what the MAGA revolution is all about. If you don't get that you're going to spend the next 4 years being awfully confused."

A- The way I see it-
I think that Trump transcends the class warfare picture of business against worker. If products and services are provided through US companies everyone benefits- business and worker. The US is the biggest consumer market per capita in the world. He believes that class warfare has sucked the wealth out of the US to China at both the supply and demand ends- in the long term this brings US culture closer to the disfunctional authoritarian Chinese one.

There are obviously issues with US consumerism as created by Edward Bernays and his authoritarian vision of public emotional control, subverting public needs, and Uncle Freud's fear of the masses.

There is also problems with Marxist and Unionist elements creating conflict between business and worker for their own nefarious ends

Hi Fester,
"I think it the general consensus that when you see someone set upon violently for no good reason you don't rush to the aid of the perpetrator."
Yes Russia invaded, by they're not the instigator / aggressor nor was this a war they wanted, nor did they specifically want more territory.
Russia wants a new security agreement where it's interests are respected.

"Did you see that the Russian puppet government in Georgia had an election poster with an image of the Tiblisi skyline next to an image of a leveled Ukrainian town and a caption along the lines of "Elect a Euro-centric government and Russia might make your home look like this."?"
Georgia Dream aren't Pro-Russian, they're Pro-Georgian.
They don't want western puppet rulers using the country and it's people to open a second front against Russia lest the country ends up like Ukraine.

"Putin's meat wave tactics may yet win out, but it has cost him most of his ground based hardware and a million lives so far. His popularity is due to a state based propaganda empire. Vlad would be well aware that such control even made Hitler popular."

They're not meat-wave tactics, they're going slow and methodically, and winning. They're not short on military hardware, and it's the Ukrainians who have a million KIA. Putin's popularity isn't due to propaganda, it's because he pulled his nation from the brink and has improved the living standards of the Russian people.

"My guess is that Trump's ultimatum to Putin will be "Get out of Ukraine else free Ukraine joins NATO.". There is a lot of talk that there is little Russian armour left. I'm sure that the Ukrainian military is keen to see if beam weapons are effective against glide bombs."
Russia's been preparing to fight NATO if necessary, but they don't want to. Trump's right now is being laughed at like a buffoon.
Surrounded by foreign policy morons who still want to win, not end the war.

Russia sets the record straight on Ukraine.
No NATO, No Peacekeepers, No end of War, No Peace Summit.
http://youtu.be/xWUeL1n7xzg

Hi mhaze,
"I'm afraid you rather badly misunderstand the nature of the tariffs."
- No it's a tax on business and consumers alright.

Yes he hopes to create more jobs, but not much point in doing so if a pointless U.S. toaster factory produces a base level toaster for $40 when the Chinese import is $10.
Yes you can create more jobs, but can you be competitive?
Trumps deportation plans will hit the US businesses pretty hard as many rely on cheap foreign labour.

"Jobs that have been exported overseas by the free trade mantra for 30 years. Those jobs are coming back."
- They were exported overseas by greedy companies looking to increase profits. They screwed the American workers then, and the tariffs and deportation will screw the rise the cost of everything and screw the American worker again, even if more are employed.
Re-industrialisation will cost the U.S trillions, and still they wont be able to compete.
We'll see if America is better off under Trump in the years ahead.

"The Russian economy is unravelling with inflation at around 20% and interest rates higher still. Putin desperately needs the peace that Trump will impose."
It's not the same picture as inflation in our countries, the real truth is Russia is short of workers and wages have increased, the Russian people are earning more cash, and that's impacting inflation.

"China likewise is in serious economic strife and can ill-afford the hit that Trump's tariffs will bring."
- They're hitting their 5% growth targets.
BRICS nations will offset losses in US markets with trade increases amongst themselves, meanwhile for the US, the world s slowly dedollarising.
BRICS nations are continuing to increase GDP while G7 nations are continuing their slide downwards.

"Still falling for the youtube charlatans I see."
- No, WE shall see.

Hi Canem Malem,
"Singapore does have a lot of Socialist policies such as housing too, in spite of it's reputation as a key business hub, ship and air facilities, etc. Singapore has fairly totalitarian laws too."
- Well the answer to homeless people is 'build more affordable housing' not 'import more people' into a service economy that produces little.

The mining industry is projecting huge decreases in exports in the coming years, the good times are over, thanks to all this 'Us against them' crap, China is moving to source it's goods from more friendly countries like BRICS which have now expanded to include 9 more countries.

"I think that Trump transcends the class warfare picture of business against worker. If products and services are provided through US companies everyone benefits- business and worker."
- Not if the toaster costs $40 instead of $10.
The consumer isn't better off if they're forced to pay 4 times the price, they still have to be competitive or the whole thing is pointless.

AC, you're always talking about what WILL happen based upon the claims of people with a vested interest in predicting a grim future.

If you want to see the effect of Trump's MAGA policies go back and look at what DID happen 2017-2020. Its a complete refutation of your claims about the effect of Trump's policies on inflation, manufacturing, wages and fuel costs.

The Trump years were so good economically that the anti-MAGA and anti-US groups (really the same people) both within and without the US try very hard to forget it. Low inflation; low fuel costs; the US became the world's leading oil producer; lowest ever black unemployment; lowest Hispanic unemployment for 2 decades; rapidly rising overall employment; foreign adversaries cowed; no new wars etc etc.

If you want to see what WILL happen look back at what DID happen rather than what carpetbaggers on youtube propound.