Trump reviving mercantilism

For months, the Trump administration had been unable to settle on a coherent trade policy on everything from NAFTA to steel imports. It’s a result of the continuing tug of war between the administration’s "America First" advisers and advocates of a more global approach that pays heed to U.S. allies. The administration has been debating the issue behind closed doors for months, including in a high-level meeting this week with the president.

The tension among Trump's aides appears to be easing, however. The president's advisers are coalescing around a tailored approach that would target the steel imports of individual countries, rather than across-the-board measures against every nation that sends steel to the U.S., according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

The administration’s more narrow approach is meant to allay the concerns of U.S. allies like Canada and the European Union, which together make up a large share of the steel imported in the U.S. Leaders from such trading partners have sharply criticized invoking national security as a means to erect trade barriers, which is one approach the administration is considering.

Yet even a tailored tariff or trade restriction could nonetheless prompt a targeted nation to attack a vital U.S. export and eventually lead to a trade war.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...n-clash-240123

The horror!

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Originally Posted by AaronY

The horror!

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You spend way too much time claiming you don't care. Are you Darrin's alt cause you act a lot like him.

Personally I don't like the idea of prices going up because Trump starts a trade war. It was one of the major contributors to the instability in 19th century economies. We were supposed to learn our lesson a century ago.

i think we can all agree that fuzzy is awful at guessing alts

I think we can all agree that spurraider sucks at determining sarcasm.

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Originally Posted by FuzzyLumpkins

I think we can all agree that spurraider sucks at determining sarcasm.

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Sarcasm aside, you are by far the worst at guessing alts.

i still remember when i "outed" myself as some posters from a forum i've never heard about :lol

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

i think we can all agree that fuzzy is awful at guessing alts

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He thinks I'm Yoni lol

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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy

He thinks I'm Yoni lol

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You said you were Yoni more than a year ago.

This went well :lol

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

i still remember when i "outed" myself as some posters from a forum i've never heard about :lol

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:lol I remember det one

You guys sure are determined to discourage me from speculating on alt accounts and deflect from Trump's shitty policy.

Trump is trying to start a trade war and you pukes are hung up on ole Fuzzy.

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Originally Posted by FuzzyLumpkins

You guys sure are determined to discourage me from speculating on alt accounts and deflect from Trump's shitty policy.

Trump is trying to start a trade war and you pukes are hung up on ole Fuzzy.

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My only alt is AntiChrist with satanic Obama avatar. :lol

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

My only alt is AntiChrist with satanic Obama avatar. :lol

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You'll never guess my alt tbh

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Originally Posted by baseline bum

You'll never guess my alt tbh

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Pavlov?

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

Pavlov?

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Nah my alt had like two posts :lol

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Originally Posted by baseline bum

Nah my alt had like two posts :lol

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:lol

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

:lol

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Well I said you wouldn't figure it out :lol

January Romo

Wish I hadn't lost the password so I could have given it to someone in the NFL Forum

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Originally Posted by baseline bum

Nah my alt had like two posts :lol

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that rules out ChumpDumper

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

that rules out ChumpDumper

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I'm his alt

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You said you were Yoni more than a year ago.

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:lol I had no recollection of that but that you believed it is funny. Here's how that went...

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It's so cute. You can see Yoni looking at the page and then Snakeboy posts. I don't know that they are the same but between that and them posting the exact same takes, I do wonder.

I found 10 very wrong statements from scientists so the work of all the tens of thousand of scientists worldwide are invalidated.

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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy

My Yoni persona no longer posts. I...He made a thread about it.

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Originally Posted by FuzzyLumpkins

I think we can all agree that spurraider sucks at determining sarcasm.

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No we don't all agree on that :lol

:lol... and i think he meant "detecting sarcasm" not determining.

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

that rules out ChumpDumper

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:rollin I think that's one he pegged me as arguing with myself non stop :rollin

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Originally Posted by spurraider21

i think we can all agree that fuzzy is awful at guessing alts

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I'll admit I'm not very good at it either. I used to think Th'Pusher was a Fuzzy alt because he was posting pics from a photobucket account called TheFuzzyLumpkins. Then I noticed TSA was also posting pics from a photobucket account called TheFuzzyLumpkins and I thought well that would be too weird so I gave up trying to figure out who was who's alt. I just accepted the possibility that there might be entire threads of the same person arguing with themselves.

I always felt Jean-Baptiste Colbert was underrated and easily a top five mercantilist myself tbh

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Originally Posted by SnakeBoy

I'll admit I'm not very good at it either. I used to think Th'Pusher was a Fuzzy alt because he was posting pics from a photobucket account called TheFuzzyLumpkins. Then I noticed TSA was also posting pics from a photobucket account called TheFuzzyLumpkins and I thought well that would be too weird so I gave up trying to figure out who was who's alt. I just accepted the possibility that there might be entire threads of the same person arguing with themselves.

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I have that named as my photobucket account, but I think you are confused thinking Th'Pusher has the same.

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Originally Posted by DarrinS

Pavlov?

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That's Random Guy's alt.

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Originally Posted by TSA

I have that named as my photobucket account, but I think you are confused thinking Th'Pusher has the same.

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That's possible. I used to get Baseline bum and MannyisGod confused all the time.