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Peter Schiff: Tariffs & the Coming Economic Collapse
YouTube ^ | April 6 | Peter D. Schiff

Posted on 04/06/2025 5:58:27 AM PDT by RandFan

Peter Schiff is a financial commentator & CEO of Euro Pacific Asset Management

[30 mins podcast]

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: chickenlittle; hennypenny; randypandy; talkingschiff; trollfan
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To: Brian Griffin
It might cost Nike $2 more a pair to make them in the USA.

If that.

81 posted on 04/06/2025 8:18:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Owen
If factories move to the US, then the tariff on those products fail to generate revenue, because you were successful moving the factory to the US.

The workers pay income taxes and get off of welfare. That increases revenue also. Manufacturing plants sustain entire communities. They provide secondary businesses and jobs. The net effect is one new manufacturing job is going to create many new secondary businesses and jobs. This process will create a viable economy for the long term. You Free Traitors™ need to stop with the myopic thinking.

82 posted on 04/06/2025 8:24:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan

preemptively autopen pardoned Adam Schiff(D-CA)


83 posted on 04/06/2025 8:28:25 AM PDT by goo goo g'joob (When honest people say what's true, calmly and without embarrassment, they become powerful)
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To: Pelham
It has taken a few years to get it but since his death I have come to realize Rush Limbaugh brainwashed a lot of his listeners into being Free Traitors™. Rush was liberation.

I listened to him despite of that. Sometimes he made me cringe.

84 posted on 04/06/2025 8:28:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

That’s not a bad scenario, except unemployment is already so low. It’s not idle people doing the manufacturing jobs. It’s people changing jobs.

There may be a pay raise to bump up tax revenue but when the factory opens it erases tariff revenue.

Not a Free Trader. Just one who obsesses over the power of mathematics.

There is no fix for $37T in debt and 3.4% composite interest rate unless there is outright default, explicit, uncamouflaged. The power of compound interest overwhelms all other factors. Trump knows it. It is why he has talked about selling assets, like vast expanses of land.

But it’s gone too far. Even that won’t suffice.


85 posted on 04/06/2025 8:44:30 AM PDT by Owen
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To: odawg
... Maybe you can be the person who can explain why foreign nations tariffing us has no economic impact, but when Trump mirrors their tariffs, it is a castastrophe....

It's even worse than that. They cry that Americans will suffer BOTH WAYS! Coming and going, left and right, up and down.

86 posted on 04/06/2025 8:47:54 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Owen
Your post makes no sense. Wages have been flat for 20 years.

For most U.S. workers, real wages have barely budged in decades

87 posted on 04/06/2025 8:56:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

You did not understand what I said.

The point was moving factories to the US does not explode tax revenue because there is no pool of unemployed people, currently paying no taxes, to get those factory jobs and then start paying tax revenue. Unemployment is low.

They are already working. And already paying tax revenue.


88 posted on 04/06/2025 9:02:05 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen

If I only read your posts, I’d put a bullet in my temple.


89 posted on 04/06/2025 9:07:16 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Lazamataz

Are they allowed in there? Maybe Mormon temples.


90 posted on 04/06/2025 9:13:32 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen
Listen stuck on stupid.

I think there are millions of potential workers out there willing to work for decent wages. Seeing how wages have been flat for decades they would rather work under the table for cash. Also, it used to before rat globalists took over that raising wages were a GOOD THING AND A GOAL not a crises.

If you want a baby boom let wages rise for once.

91 posted on 04/06/2025 9:16:35 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RandFan
Peter is always seeking to stay relevant - just like Rand Paul.

Neither one truly understands economics. Some aspects of it? Yes. Economics as a whole, and how debt-based money works? No.

The solution is not gold.

The solution is for our US Treasury to issue our money supply, not backed by debt securities.

92 posted on 04/06/2025 9:16:47 AM PDT by politicket
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To: Owen
You win.


93 posted on 04/06/2025 9:19:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: RandFan

I know, right? That stupid Donald Blumph, he thinks our tariffs will be soooooo much better than other countries’ tariffs. That stupid-head! He doesn’t know that only other countries get to tariff us and we have to lie down and take it. Wow, I miss Biden already.... NOT! I’d rather fight and die standing than live and grovel on my knees. We had nothing but debt and despair under Bite-me; it can’t be any worse under Trump, tear the system down!!!
LFG!!!!!!!!!


94 posted on 04/06/2025 9:24:56 AM PDT by everlast
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To: Brian Griffin

Nice idea, and it would be great to offer city kids a step onto the positive reinforcement work ladder producing a perceived high prestige item, even with an employee purchase plan.

Didn’t Napolean say something like Europe was won with a handful of ribbon?


95 posted on 04/06/2025 9:30:44 AM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: everlast; RandFan
The rapist likes it when their victim lays there and cooperates maybe even likes it more when the victim pretend they like it. The globalists have the same mentality towards their victim, the USA. They don't like it when we squirm and scream.
96 posted on 04/06/2025 9:32:53 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

The participation rate has definitely been in decline.

There is no evidence that the cause of this is a lack of manufacturing jobs.

Rather, he official definition of workforce age is 16 and older. There is no top end (oddly). So obviously the baby boom in retirement age will shrink participation rate per the graphs and this has been known for some time. Big numbers retire.

Then there is health. US consumption of pain opioids by working age people has exploded. One half of working age men take pain medication, and 2/3 of that total are on prescription pain medication. That shrinks the available pool of men of that age to work in factories.

And so. There is no pool of non tax paying people poised to jump into these factory jobs and pay tax revenue.


97 posted on 04/06/2025 9:37:26 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen
And so. There is no pool of non tax paying people poised to jump into these factory jobs and pay tax revenue.

Says who? A cretin like you?

98 posted on 04/06/2025 9:38:28 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

I would have thought the numbers said it. Not my numbers. Look them up.


99 posted on 04/06/2025 9:39:25 AM PDT by Owen
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To: Owen
Question:

Stagnant wages and a low birth rate are signs of:

  1. A tight labor pool
  2. An oversupply of labor
  3. The perfect amount of labor vs jobs available

100 posted on 04/06/2025 9:40:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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