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keep saying its not an accident.

It's the plan.

Trump’s erratic trade policies are baffling businesses, 

threatening investment and economic growth

"Everything Trump does on trade seems designed to maximize chaos and uncertainty."

(Aint no "seems" to it.)

"Tariffs cause economic pain in part because they’re a tax paid by importers that often gets passed along to consumers, adding to inflationary pressure. They also draw retaliation from trading partners, which can hurt all economies involved."

(So what?

Everybody in the world knows that except:

???????????????

This is what you honestly believe?

)

"But import taxes can cause economic damage in another way: by complicating the decisions businesses have to make, including which suppliers to use, where to locate factories, what prices to charge. And that uncertainty can cause them to delay or cancel investments that help drive economic growth."

“It creates an enormous amount of uncertainty for multinational companies that sell products worldwide, that import from the rest of the world, that run these complex supply chains through multiple countries,” said Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University. “The uncertainty is going to be very unsettling for businesses and ... it will hurt business investment.’'

“Just the threat of those tariff increases and potential retaliations are putting a brake on — on investment, on consumption decisions, on employment, hiring, all the rest of it,’’ European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said after the ECB cut interest rates Thursday to support Europe’s struggling economy.

"His tariffs on Canada and Mexico effectively blow up a 2020 North American trade deal he negotiated himself five years ago. “Past trade agreements simply don’t mean much if the president can unilaterally violate them and impose tariffs with no checks at all,” said Douglas Irwin, an economist at Dartmouth College."

(The outlaws/gangsters running this mess don't even care if you know anymore.)

"It’s unclear what Trump is trying to achieve by plastering tariffs on American trading partners."

(Not if you know whats up it aint "unclear".)

 "Sometimes he cites border security. Sometimes he emphasizes the revenue that tariffs can generate for the Treasury — money that can help finance his proposed tax cuts. Sometimes he points to America’s big trade deficits with most other countries."

OBFUSCATE

ob·fus·cate

/ˈäbfəˌskāt/

verb

render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible.

Similar:

obscure

confuse

make obscure/unclear

blur

muddle

jumble

complicate

garble

muddy

cloud

befog

muddy the waters

Similar:

bewilder

mystify

puzzle

perplex

baffle

confound

bemuse

befuddle

nonplus

flummox

wilder

maze

gravel

etc.)

"Since the goals are cloudy, it’s hard to see what it will take to make Trump’s tariffs go away.

(Nothing.)

"Not only that, but he’s imposed the tariffs erratically, creating even more confusion."

(God is a God of order.)

"Businesses are baffled. “I’ve talked to multiple companies that are saying, ‘We’re not moving forward with any investment. We need this to be settled,’” 

(It wont be, and that is the whole point.)

"said trade lawyer Gregory Husisian at the law firm Foley & Lardner. At least in Trump’s first term “they knew what the ground rules were. Now they don’t know if we’re playing Monopoly or tic-tac-toe.’’

"Similarly, Sandya Dandamudi of GI Stone, a stone supplier in Chicago, said builders are having to rethink their plans.

“Developers of commercial projects like high-rises and hotels budget two years in advance, so they don’t account for new tariffs,” she said. “Those budgets will be blown.’’

And yet people wonder why 

they set up a national Crypto reserve?