There is functionally no difference between a 145% and a 245% tariff.

The cost of going through a black market rather than a clear or grey one is likely already below 145% and the grey one is likely to fill most gaps in the long run anyways.

Grey market tariff skirting might be Canadian or UK companies slapping their logos and “made in X” marker after making a tiny change to the product. The barrier to entry on this is quite low as is the risk. If your profit is capped at 145% you still have a lot of room to make money.

Choi bit off part of the tongue of a man who allegedly tried to rape her, it was she who was labeled the aggressor and jailed for grievous bodily harm.

At the time, Choi was 18 and living at home with her family. Now 78, she’s trying to clear her name in the hope that vindication will pave the way for other victims of sexual crime in South Korea, one of the world’s most advanced economies but one where society remains deeply patriarchal.

“I dunno, an 18 year old woman living with her parents sounds pretty dangerous to me, surely she just found a random man on the street, reached into his mouth and bit the tip of his tongue off.”

I’m honestly surprised it took this long for SK to have widespread feminist backlash. What a horrid place for women to exist.

Waving hands around like an idiot

“You could say I’ve made an exception to the exception.”

I have no idea. I know back before I had sponsor block that seemed to be a common VPN influencer talking point.

I don’t pay for a VPN or Netflix lol

It was a comedic strawman

Holy shit what’s the point of a VPN with rules like this.

Maybe I just want to pay $8 per month to change my Netflix (which I also pay $20 per month for) in order to watch different shows from another country. 👉👈

Reject app 🦍 ride bicycle 🚲

US treasuries is literally what we used in university as the “risk free rate”

When you have government officials saying they want to default on the “risk free” bonds it undermines markets in a completely unprecedented way.

Shockingly stupid.

It’s really reprehensible. Having low wages makes these countries reliant on exporting. They are being exploited for the benefit of richer countries and what to they get as thanks? Tariffs.

Just look through this page and tell me if you weren’t the leader you wouldn’t be begging to be spared:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Madagascar

I imagine there are other countries too that are going to be devastated by the tariffs.

It’s unclear where the Trump administration stands on the tariffs, whose cost will be largely paid by American consumers in the form of higher prices for foreign goods. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CBS News Tuesday that the tariffs are “negotiable but not a negotiating tactic.”

Trump said Monday that there could be both “permanent tariffs and there could also be negotiations.”

This feels like the start of a really stupid riddle.

I’m negotiable but not a negotiation tactic, I’m permanent but subject to change…

The places are probably developing countries with GDP per capita under $2000

I doubt any well conected country is doing that when america is clearly the underdog in a “civilized world vs america” situation. Tax American services, impose controls on yank companies operating domestically or just size their assets all together. What are they gonna do? Go cry to the WTO?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispute_settlement_in_the_World_Trade_Organization#Paralyzation

Trump literally lobotomized it and Europe had to put together a parallel judgement body. No shot it won’t be biased against the US

And what was being pardoned:

“In what may have been a first, Trump pardoned a corporation. The company to earn that distinction was a cryptocurrency exchange sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law.”

Setting a precedent of excusing money laundering really does just feel like “I want to destroy the country” with not a whole lot else going on.

My point is it’s already for sale, both in bankruptcy proceedings and potentially in less legitimate spaces

https://www.404media.co/23andme-hack-christmas-gift/

Doesn’t this just increase the value of the already for sale 23 and Me data?

I don’t think “depleted stocks” is good way for saying there are tanks available but not usable but I also don’t know what a better wording would be so maybe it’s accurate. Thanks for elaborating regardless.

Even without assuming they’ll use low quality examples, the article also says

According to researchers, only about 1,200 tanks can still be relatively easily restored after major repairs.

It sure sounds like the title is BS.

Wrote down not off.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/02/x-twitter-stock-falls-elon-musk

Debt is written off when deemed unrecoverable.

Assets can be written down when the value is lower than expected. Often this is due to more rapid depreciation of capital assets due to damage or impairments to goodwill (brand failure).

But none of that matters because private equity valuations are all bullshit and mean nothing anyways.

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/private-equity/private-equity-is-a-joke

Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and other nations," Vance said. He gave no details of the alleged incursions. The U.S. vice president said Russia, China and other nations are taking an “extraordinary interest” in Arctic passageways, naval routes and minerals in the region and the U.S. will invest more resources, including naval ships and military icebreakers that will have a greater presence in the country.

It sounds like there is one one group doing more aggressive incursions.

No, because it’s speculation.

It’s far more comfortable to think it’s being done for some malicious reason rather than out of stupidity or fear.