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Dow Crashes as Trump Announces Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
New York Post ^ | March 1, 2018 | Carleton English and Marisa Schultz

Posted on 03/01/2018 12:19:46 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: reformedliberal

We have rare earth metals, except the enviros are blocking access.


21 posted on 03/01/2018 12:42:16 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: nickcarraway

Good news for Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Indiana.


22 posted on 03/01/2018 12:42:55 PM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: eyeamok

Japan ,Taiwan , Korea ,and China have all played the same game of subsidizing their exporters and blocking US imports. I was working in Asia for 40 years off and on and saw it first hand in all those countries. They have engaged in a trade war for all that time while we were worried about defending them. In 1971 Usaid was giving machinery to Pohang Steel.


23 posted on 03/01/2018 12:43:28 PM PST by Oldexpat
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To: reformedliberal

We will become a much poorer nation without world trade

Yeah, I remember how hard it was for young couples in the 50’s and 60’s to buy their first home with 2 kids and only one working parent, unlike today where anyone with a decent job can buy a house in the neighborhood they work and support their family while momma raises the kids....


24 posted on 03/01/2018 12:44:45 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Oldexpat

CHump Change, Ladybird Johnson was selling Military Equipment to the Chinese and they were giving to the Viet Cong!


25 posted on 03/01/2018 12:46:34 PM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: ScottfromNJ

The Post is a great paper but they seem to swinging away from common sense on the gun issue.


26 posted on 03/01/2018 12:49:18 PM PST by firebrand
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To: nickcarraway

It’s irresponsible of the post to use the word “Crash” when talking about the stock market.
Also, the DJIA didn’t “plunge.”
Some people held off buying, and the prices dropped.
When it goes up 500 points, the post needs to use the words “blast off” and “soaring.”


27 posted on 03/01/2018 12:51:20 PM PST by I want the USA back (Free Republic keeps me from going insane in a world that has chosen insanity over reason.)
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To: ilgipper

The media sucks, but it really sucks when it comes to reporting financial news.


28 posted on 03/01/2018 12:51:36 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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To: nickcarraway

Are you referring to the tariffs on Chinese tires in 2009? If so, then you’re comparing apples to oranges. A tool such as tariffs in the hands of a child (Obama) as compared to being structured as part of Trump’s comprehensive economic policy via Wilbur Ross, is like comparing the use of military force under Reagan with Obama’s ineffectual (or worse) bombing missions.

The tariffs, which expired in 2012, did nothing to prevent China from continuing their exports, via 3rd party countries, a deficiency that is lacking in the proposal presented by Ross. In addition, the domestic producers still had little incentive to ramp up domestic production, because the Obama administration had done nothing to lower the cost of doing business for them.

In contrast, with the de-regulation and tax cuts of the Trump administration, there is every incentive for domestic producers to expand production to meet the greater demand rather than merely raising prices. The Obama tariffs only had the effect of allowing domestic producers to pad their profits with price increases for a brief period of time until the tariffs expired or were circumvented via 3rd party countries.

The truth lies in the details - something you have never been good at.


29 posted on 03/01/2018 12:52:36 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: eyeamok

I never heard that one but it wouldn’t surprise me at all.


30 posted on 03/01/2018 12:52:59 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: nickcarraway

The sky is falling!


31 posted on 03/01/2018 12:53:14 PM PST by Jaded (Pope Francis? Not really a fan... miss the last guy who recognized how Islam spread... the sword.ag)
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To: ScottfromNJ

Yes, I recall reading in Graig Nettles’ book BALLS (about his days as a New York Yankee) him telling a reporter in Los Angeles that he’d rather catch his kids reading through “Hustler” magazine as opposed to a copy of the New York Post, lol.


32 posted on 03/01/2018 12:54:34 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: nickcarraway

The inflation has begun with this new tax


33 posted on 03/01/2018 12:55:59 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: nickcarraway

This is long overdue.

Thank You President Trump.

Rebuild and take back what was once ours.

Winning!


34 posted on 03/01/2018 12:56:11 PM PST by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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To: bert

On aluminum, !0% is nothing. We experienced such price changes with in one week years ago. When bidding on aluminum we didn’t know if our cost would last out the day.


35 posted on 03/01/2018 12:58:17 PM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: HamiltonJay
Jeez. I rember not all that long ago the Dow would gain or lose 200-300 a day and no one blinked...

That was back when a never-ending recession was “the new normal.”

36 posted on 03/01/2018 1:06:33 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: nickcarraway

Some folks should just avoid the market and invest in unicorn farms or rainbow pot of gold expeditions and spare the rest of us from this endless hand wringing the media and many go thru every time the market adjusts.. it would make life a bit more tolerable for the few that are long haulers... and have been thru the Bushes, Clintons, Obammians and Kardashians.


37 posted on 03/01/2018 1:07:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Emu farms and suckless vacuum cleaners.


38 posted on 03/01/2018 1:09:44 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Someone is trying to start a panic and cause a recession by alarmist journalism.

Then they can blame Trump for it when it was their own hysterical fear mongering reporting that started it.


39 posted on 03/01/2018 1:10:48 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: nickcarraway
Cheese and crackers.

This is how Trump negotiates.

In a week the market will be all a twitter over some other issue.

That said this volatility is great for traders who understand how Trump operates.

40 posted on 03/01/2018 1:10:49 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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