Don't tell him that, otherwise you'll probably end up with an eugenics program.
jmcs
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Of course it is. The only thing worse than arbitrary tariffs are unpredictable tariffs. Right now no one can plan their business more than one week in advance and even that feels like gambling.
At some point he is going to have to pick between them and his main sources of income.
I wouldn't go that far. Looking from a distance, the US is starting to look a lot like pre-2022 Russia. The government abuses the letter of the law to go against its spirit, and courts get progressively stacked with pro-govermnent cronies. So, while you can't expect a fair trial anymore, they are not openly ignoring the written law yet. Thus opens some venues of defense because the thugs on the ground often fuck up the paperwork.
There's so much room for "creative" exports. Like Belarus suddenly "producing" oranges and shrimps for the Russian market when Russia forbade the importation of several food products from the EU.
The way things stand China might well end up providing the communist dictatorship to the new allies vs the American-Russian Axis
Good Tsar, Bad Boyars. Even there the US is starting to sound like Russia
But China owns Russia, and I doubt they are happy with Putin's pet peeing all over the place.
You don't even need that much. At least at this stage, Trump is abusing existing laws as a sledgehammer against the economy. While Trump can veto new laws passed by "just" 50% of the Congress, they would at least have some leverage to pressure him.
Because nothing helps a struggling economy like legalized nepotism.
Isn't this dude a Senator? He can help end the stupid tariff war any time he wants. If he can grow a spine and bring 4 friends with him he can at least put pressure on his pals on the house of representatives.
Other big companies offer bigger free upgrades for years without demanding more money from who already bought game (Minecraft says hi), indie developers have less sources of revenue and lots of them still offer updates for longer than even a console life cycle - and neither are tying the updates to buying a brand new console.