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#1
General discussion / Re: Brexit.
Today at 07:14:10 AM
Quote from: Wildweasel74 on November 09, 2024, 10:20:02 PMOnly thing I say qbout Brexit, it's the main reason. I think food got so dear on it.
Brexit drove higher inflation.
#2
Quote from: Nanderson on November 09, 2024, 08:49:17 AM
Quote from: seafoid on November 09, 2024, 07:52:16 AMThings are getting awkward.

https://www.ft.com/content/5003b5b9-7d36-49a7-96cc-d5fecc7a0a96
Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy

What will this mean for Apple and co.?
Can you post the article text please if you can
Robert Lighthizer, who was US trade representative when Donald Trump launched his trade war with China, has been asked to take the job again as the president-elect starts to build his cabinet team. Several people familiar with the discussions inside Trump's transition team said Lighthizer had been asked to return to the role even though he was lobbying for a different position, including commerce secretary. Lighthizer had also expressed interest in serving as Treasury secretary, but that position will most likely be offered to a financier, with contenders including the hedge fund managers Scott Bessent and John Paulson. The possibility of an arch protectionist being reappointed to the pivotal trade role is likely to raise concerns in Beijing, as well as among US trading allies, given how influential Lighthizer was during Trump's trade wars during his first term. Trump has vowed to impose high tariffs on all imports into the US, particularly Chinese goods.

Trump had considered Lighthizer for commerce secretary but the people familiar with the personnel discussions said the president-elect was most likely to offer that job to Linda McMahon, the billionaire co-chair of Trump's presidential transition team. Brendan Boyle, a Philadelphia congressman who is the top Democrat on the influential House budget committee and a senior member of the ways and means committee that oversees trade, said he would welcome Lighthizer's appointment. "When Bob Lighthizer was USTR I worked with him on the [US-Mexico-Canada Agreement]," Boyle said.

"He was bipartisan in his approach and is well respected on both sides of the [political] aisle." Recommended US presidential election 2024 The highs and lows of the 'Trump trade' It remains unclear if Lighthizer will accept the position. He did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Trump also did not immediately respond. Robert O'Brien, who served as national security adviser during the first Trump administration and was viewed as a contender to return to that role or become secretary of state, this week told his private sector consultancy clients that he would not join the administration, said one person familiar with the decision. Lighthizer was highly regarded by Trump and was one of the few top-level officials who did not suffer his wrath during Trump's first term. As Trump's trade tsar, he presided over a turbulent era for global trade as the administration repeatedly hit its largest trading partners — including its allies — with steep levies and tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of imports. A former lawyer for the US steel industry, he frequently clashed with the Geneva-based World Trade Organization, which oversees international trade disputes, calling it a "mess" that had "failed America". His appointment would also signal trouble for Nippon Steel, the Japanese company that has proposed a $15bn acquisition of US Steel. Trump has signalled his opposition to the deal, but Lighthizer would almost certainly argue for blocking the acquisition. Recommended News in-depthUS trade From cars to planes: global manufacturers brace for Trump's tariffs

Lighthizer spent three decades as an attorney at Wall Street law firm Skadden Arps, where he fought imports from China on behalf of the US steel industry, including US Steel. In the early 2000s, he helped persuade George W Bush's administration to impose tariffs on steel imports to protect the US industry. During his previous tenure as trade representative, Washington moved away from trade deals driven by business interests and instead focused on measures designed to reshore manufacturing and protect American workers. Despite this, Lighthizer agreed limited trade deals with China and Japan, and updated the US's deal with Mexico and Canada. Writing in the Financial Times just before the US election, Lighthizer blamed free trade for the loss of American manufacturing jobs and called the US trade deficit "alarming". "Facing a system that is seriously failing our country, Trump has decided that action must be taken," he wrote.
#3
General discussion / Re: The IRISH RUGBY thread
November 09, 2024, 07:53:50 AM
Quote from: Armagh18 on November 09, 2024, 06:53:08 AMMaybe bodes well for the next world cup. Ireland normally win these friendlies and the media think they're the best team ever only to get found out when it counts. Hopefully the opposite happens now.
As long as they learn from this loss. That is how the all blacks do it
#4
Things are getting awkward.

https://www.ft.com/content/5003b5b9-7d36-49a7-96cc-d5fecc7a0a96
Donald Trump asks arch protectionist Robert Lighthizer to run US trade policy

What will this mean for Apple and co.?
#5
https://www.ft.com/content/eaef9e8c-88e9-4d54-adf0-67c009112467#post-83b76678-9333-4770-8ee5-c342d9b789bb

Uefa tells Israeli clubs to find alternative venues for international matches
#6
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 07, 2024, 04:07:10 PM
Trump promised lower inflation, lowe interest rates, higher wages and that everyone would get a nice house . The only thing he left out was a pony. I wonder how long the honeymoon will last.
#7
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 07, 2024, 08:34:50 AM
https://www.ft.com/content/4a822d5f-f9c7-4b41-841d-cc727e3468a0

Trump has relied heavily on the super-rich, who accounted for about 34 per cent of the total haul, according to an FT analysis. Four donors — banking heir Timothy Mellon, casino developer Miriam Adelson, shipping magnate Richard Uihlein and Elon Musk — gave about $432mn. About 6 per cent of pro-Harris groups' funding came from billionaires.
#8
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 06, 2024, 05:10:05 PM
Quote from: J70 on November 06, 2024, 01:21:01 PM
Quote from: Armagh18 on November 06, 2024, 01:12:20 PM
Quote from: gallsman on November 06, 2024, 11:26:33 AM
Quote from: theskull1 on November 06, 2024, 10:39:28 AMBoth full on America Firsters AND fervent Zionists delighted at the result. Will be interesting to see who's been fooled... as if there's any doubt.

Watch again in this administration how Jews control America (and rest of the West).


This is acceptable on the board now, is it?
It's true.

It's pure, ignorant and bigoted idiocy.
It's antisemitism in real life. Jews with money get access to power. The Dems are no better. Blinken is a Zionist. Israel knows how to play the US. The big losers are ordinary dumb voters waiting to the golden age trump promised them
#9
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 06, 2024, 05:07:30 PM
Quote from: Rossfan on November 06, 2024, 01:17:47 PMGive the *people what they voted for and give it to them good and hard.
Was it Charlie Haughey said that?

*that's if you can consider Yanks as people. Evolution seems to be reversing at a rate of knots in that stolen territory.
Mencken had the quote about democracy and giving it good and hard. He got to see the changeover of power after WW2 when the system was designed for workers and not the rich. He couldn't understand the new system. 
#10
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 06, 2024, 05:04:59 PM
Quote from: theskull1 on November 06, 2024, 10:39:28 AMBoth full on America Firsters AND fervent Zionists delighted at the result. Will be interesting to see who's been fooled... as if there's any doubt.

Watch again in this administration how Jews control America (and rest of the West).

pro settler Miriam Adelson paid USD 132 million to the Trump campaign. It's like wars in the old days. The sponsors got the riches
#11
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 06, 2024, 09:15:20 AM
It-s not
Quote from: Muck Savage on November 06, 2024, 09:02:53 AM
Quote from: Wee Barky on November 06, 2024, 08:04:46 AMWhat's the likely impact on the Ukraine war? Will trump reduce funding that will lead to a Russian victory ?
He'll likely look to "broker" a deal where the war stops, Russia take what the have and regroup until after he leaves office in 4 years
He will then look to arm the rest of Europe with weapons but make them pay for all generating wealth for the usual suspects and jobs for working class
As for the Middle East, he will look to bring back the sanctions on Iran and try to take them out of funding Hamas etc.
I do hope that this time around he might be a bit softer and look build bridges at home but that could be wishful thinking.
It's not as much about Trump as the people around him. It's turbo plutocracy and to hell with the gobshites who voted for him
#12
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 05, 2024, 05:22:36 PM
Quote from: thewobbler on November 05, 2024, 01:29:36 PMHas there ever been a more shameless attempt to swing an election by any means necessary, than what Elon Musk has got up to the past few months?

What a complete **** he is.
The US is a plutocracy
https://www.ft.com/content/4a822d5f-f9c7-4b41-841d-cc727e3468a0

Trump has relied heavily on the super-rich, who accounted for about 34 per cent of the total haul, according to an FT analysis. Four donors — banking heir Timothy Mellon, casino developer Miriam Adelson, shipping magnate Richard Uihlein and Elon Musk — gave about $432mn.
#13
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 05, 2024, 02:01:08 PM
https://www.ft.com/content/64b240f4-205d-4e76-801c-a820e858ca16

"In two days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington, DC, and the trash's name is Kamala Harris," JD Vance said. In Grand Rapids, Trump called Harris a "very low-IQ person" and a "radical left lunatic who destroyed San Francisco".
#14
General discussion / Re: The Many Faces of US Politics...
November 05, 2024, 10:25:01 AM
Quote from: Pub Bore on November 05, 2024, 10:09:34 AMHarris to win by a bigger margin than the polls suggest.  There, I've said it!
I agree
#15
General discussion / Re: Death Notices
November 04, 2024, 08:06:27 AM