Steel and aluminum tariffs...

**Blake** · 23 Hours Ago

Originally Posted by TSA

Lol Lutnik

**Thread** · 23 Hours Ago

Originally Posted by Blake

Lol Lutnik

If we keep our nose to the grindstone (tightly) there is nothing we can't do.

Let us proceed...

**velik_m** · 7 Hours Ago

Weekly jobless claims surge to 241,000, more than expected, in latest sign of economic trouble

Initial unemployment claims posted an unexpected increase last week in a potential trouble sign for the wobbling U.S. economy.

First-time filings for unemployment insurance totaled a seasonally adjusted 241,000 for the week ended April 26, up 18,000 from the prior period and higher than the Dow Jones estimate for 225,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. This was the highest total since Feb. 22.

Continuing claims, which run a week behind and provide a broader view of layoff trends, rose to 1.92 million, up 83,000 to the highest level since Nov. 13, 2021.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/week...to-241000.html

**Thread** · 7 Hours Ago

Originally Posted by velik_m

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/week...to-241000.html

We're way overdo for a recession Little v.

**TSA** · 7 Hours Ago

Originally Posted by Blake

"...US President Donald Trump on Friday said Ukraine has not yet signed a deal on rare earth minerals and he hopes it will be signed immediately.

“Ukraine, headed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not signed the final papers on the very important rare earths deal with the United States. It is at least three weeks late. Hopefully, it will be signed IMMEDIATELY. Work on the overall peace deal between Russia and Ukraine is going smoothly,” he said in a Truth Social post....."

https://www.kitco.com/news/off-the-w...-minerals-deal

Lol Trump

U.S. and Ukraine sign long-awaited minerals deal to rebuild Kyiv and repay aid
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...try-rcna203963

Blake Cramer

**Thread** · 6 Hours Ago

Originally Posted by TSA

U.S. and Ukraine sign long-awaited minerals deal to rebuild Kyiv and repay aid
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...try-rcna203963

Blake Cramer

We should rebuild N. Carolina first.

**TSA** · 5 Hours Ago

Originally Posted by spurraider21

Why would anybody plan to move a manufacturing plant which will take years to become operation when tariffs policies are improvised on a day to day basis

'Going to build NVIDIA's next gen technology here in US': CEO Jenseng Huang

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on April 30 praised President Trump’s leadership, crediting his policies and support for accelerating U.S. manufacturing. Huang announces that the next generation of NVIDIA technology will be built entirely in the United States, thanks to Trump’s encouragement and pro-growth agenda. "We're going to build NVIDIA's technology, the next generation of that, all here in the United States. Without the President's leadership, his policies, his support, and very importantly his strong encouragement -- manufacturing in the United States wouldn't have accelerated to this pace," Jenseng Huang said.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com...9.cms?from=mdr

Originally Posted by Winehole23

cool story, bro

**ChumpDumper** · 5 Hours Ago

Biden's CHIPS Act really worked, didn't it?

**ChumpDumper** · 4 Hours Ago

Are we going to start making consoles here? Is this what the tariffs are for?

https://x.com/PopBase/status/1917944999175455045

**TSA** · 3 Hours Ago

**ChumpDumper** · 3 Hours Ago

Nice and vague .

**velik_m** · 3 Hours Ago

'We don't care': A defiant China looks beyond Trump's America

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Mr Hu, too, is on the frontline. He sits among rows of snazzy toy jets, squeaking dogs, fluffy stuffed animals, barbies and motorcycle-riding spidermen – a sliver of the $34bn (£25bn) worth of toys China exported in 2024.

About $10bn of it went to the US. But now, these Chinese exports to America face up to 245% tariffs. And US President Donald Trump has made it clear that he blames Beijing in particular for cornering too much of the global market.

But things have changed here since Trump's first trade war against China, which kicked off in 2018. It taught Yiwu a lesson, summed up by Mr Hu: "Other countries have money too!"

That defiance has become a familiar theme in the world's second-biggest economy, which is bracing itself for another turbulent Trump presidency.

Beijing, which has been repeatedly telling the world that the US was bullying countries into trade negotiations, has not backed down yet from the trade war.

The propaganda online has ratcheted up, applauding Chinese innovation and diplomacy in contrast to the uncertainty unleashed by Trump. On the country's highly controlled social media, there are plenty of posts echoing the leadership's promise that China will keep fighting.

And in factories and markets, businessmen and exporters now say they have other alternatives, beyond Trump's America. Mr Hu, for instance, says around 20%-30% of his business came from US buyers. But not anymore.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7jdn09lxo