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TheAlchemist04/03/20252 repliesview on HN

I would bet that most of these tarrifs won't exist in <6 months. This reeks negotiation tactics from Trump.

He's been playing this game for 2 months now with Canada and Mexico, and so far he's loosing. US & business are loosing even more.

Keeping this kind of tarrifs, would be absolutely moronic even by Trump standards. That would be economic and financial suicide for the US.


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zero_k04/03/2025

This is not a game. Others will not take it as a game, and will retaliate. You can only play the bully for so long before others start treating you as a bully, and stop backing down, even after you have backed down -- as they never know when you are bluffing.

deadbabe04/03/2025

Doesn’t matter if they’re gone in 6 months. The damage is done, businesses will see the United States as too unstable and unreliable to plan long term goals in. We will pay the penalty for decades. Even if you get a new administration, that administration can be gone in another 4 years.

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