Tux@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoDear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square242fedilinkarrow-up1909arrow-down133
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·8 days agoIf country A sells most of an export to country B and country B makes it harder for country A to sell to country B, country A may raise prices for countries C, D and E to make up for the losses caused by country B.
minus-squaredisgrunty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down1·8 days agoSo what I’m hearing is, we should all be very mad with the Americans?
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-28 days agoA bit over a half of them, yeah. (I do realise that voters aren’t 100% of the population but)
minus-squarem4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·8 days agoEligible voters that chose not to, were they just fine either way?
minus-squareDasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 days agoYeah those fuckers would be included, which is why the figure doesn’t work but also getting too pedantic would make it far less quippy, so…
minus-squared00ery@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-28 days agoCould country A try to decrease exports to country B and increase exports to country C, D, and E, perhaps by lowering the cost in C, D, and E? I don’t have any evidence for, and this document is just too long for me to read at this late hour. [IMF - Macroeconomic Consequences of Tariffs](Macroeconomic Consequences of Tariffs. https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2019/wp1909.ashx)
If country A sells most of an export to country B and country B makes it harder for country A to sell to country B, country A may raise prices for countries C, D and E to make up for the losses caused by country B.
So what I’m hearing is, we should all be very mad with the Americans?
A bit over a half of them, yeah. (I do realise that voters aren’t 100% of the population but)
Eligible voters that chose not to, were they just fine either way?
Yeah those fuckers would be included, which is why the figure doesn’t work but also getting too pedantic would make it far less quippy, so…
Could country A try to decrease exports to country B and increase exports to country C, D, and E, perhaps by lowering the cost in C, D, and E?
I don’t have any evidence for, and this document is just too long for me to read at this late hour. [IMF - Macroeconomic Consequences of Tariffs](Macroeconomic Consequences of Tariffs. https://www.imf.org/-/media/Files/Publications/WP/2019/wp1909.ashx)