...I don’t think you understand how this works. If the price of a new good goes up the value of used goods will also increase. This is how R35 GTRs maintained such crazy resale relative to their new price in 2009 ($69,850).

It matters little to Trump’s hardcore supporters. They’re willing to burn everything in order to get America to swing back as far right as possible and get their revenge on progressives. Getting jobs to come back is a secondary concern. As Democrats try to regroup, they fail to recognize that conservatives are already…

I can’t wait to go work in a coal mine!

Did you just use the word “shoot” as a euphemism and then call someone else a retard? Ponderous. Anyway Cletus, it didn’t take an orange haired clown to bring attention to the fact that Capitalism as an economic model is flawed in how it ultimately allows power and wealth to corrupt and abuse it’s society (Marx did…

I agree; all the Trump zealots want things to get better but for some reason, it’s now ok to make cars suck again, make quality products no longer affordable and take us back to the 50's and 60's in terms of quality of life and social unrest. Not to mention no affordable health benefits (because that’s socialism) and…

The American idea of Capitalism has always been, and might always be, about taking advantage of the less powerful. Shoot - never mind the American part - that’s just Capitalism. It’s about Capitalizing.

But that is the point. The GOP constantly talks about letting businesses do what they want and not interfering or regulating them and having a free market. Until it doesn’t align and then they start talking about taxes. It is completely against what it says it wants.

I love this...China’s economic policies are driven by the fact that they are/were so far behind other developed nations.

Good point, but, then again, I, too, had high hopes for Obama closing Gitmo, which he promised on his first day in office to effect by the end of the first year. A full two terms and he couldn’t make it happen. Congress (I’m talking about you, Peter King) put the kibosh on it over and over again, and the legal black…

Best/worst case, depending upon your POV, is that Congress makes it illegal by proxy. Even that will be difficult, because SCOTUS has already said that you can’t make something that’s legal to do ‘illegal’ by passing onerous restrictions.

If tariffs in China were zero do you think that many cars would be exported there from Western countries? You still have higher costs and shipping to contend with. Or take Japan. No import duties but how many cars are exported there from the US? There’s more to international trade than taxes.

You’re giving him too much credit. Trump’s only care in the world is his image and being popular, and his only talent is self promotion. Nothing else matters to him. NOTHING.

Malaise...OHHHH! I always called it the Mayonnaise era! Weren’t all the cars white from that period? And good with French Fries (shout out to my Quebecois)

Trump never campaigned on capitalism. He campaigned on picking economic winners and losers and economic populism. He and Pence also took money out o the pockets of Indiana taxpayers and gave it to Carrier. It’s called crony capitalism, has been around for a while, and Trump will kick it into high gear by using his…

I think you should reacquaint yourself with how capitalism actually works.

Donald Trump thought he could fix complex problems with obvious/simplistic solutions.

Yep, it’d be the first shot in a trade war. US tariffs cars, their partners tariff cars and integrated circuits in retaliation. US tariffs imported steel, their partners tariff raw cotton. At the end of the day, everybody’s paying more for everything and the only winners are the taxmen.

We’re supposed to believe that after the numerous Foxconn suicides, they suddenly care about foreign workers???

Don’t get me wrong, I think the ban is stupid, but come on... Apple?!? We’re supposed to believe that after the numerous Foxconn suicides, they suddenly care about foreign workers???

I can’t imagine running a business without all those brilliant Yemeni engineers!!!