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Trump Meets With Apple's Tim Cook To Talk Trade (reuters.com)
New submitter genfail shares a report from Reuters: President Donald Trump met with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday to discuss trade issues as the technology industry grapples with a U.S. spat over import tariffs with China, a manufacturing hub for the iPhone maker and other companies. Apple, the world's largest technology company, and other hardware makers have deep ties with China, where many of their products are built for export around the world. Cook urged an easing of U.S.-China tensions and called for more open trade after the trade dispute flared last month between the world's two largest economies. Trump announced about $50 billion in planned tariffs on certain Chinese imports, China retaliated with proposed tariffs on some American goods and Trump responded that the United States could counter with $100 billion in additional levies. U.S. and Chinese officials have been working to resolve the dispute.
When every word that comes out of his mouth is a lie, and every word that goes in one ear comes out the other, and every promise he makes is just as easily broken, what's the point of meeting with the orange traitor?
make Apple great again?
Or will Cook help Trump think different?
Oh right it's still 2018, not 2019 yet.
Ops, Apple cannot make iPhones without China anymore? Good bye Apple! ....
PC storage grown from $120 per unit up to $250
Video Cards grow from $60 up $400
High end Phones went up from $500 up to $1000
And so on, prices are growing and the reason is the Americans don't make anything with their hands anymore and China wants more money for their work
Tim Cook down the street?
Honestly trade agreements are at the heart of a lot of the wars we fight for. Dissolving and breaking down of international trade agreements leads to Nations becoming more autonomous again which leads to Less Reason to give a shit what resources your neighbor has. If we can safely ignore each other then we can live in peace. It's not until the trade agreements are broken and dissolved the American people can get any control of their country back and dependent of Trump's intentions anything the breaks international trade is a good thing in the long run for freedom
Except, of course, when your neighbor has resources you need but don't have. Things like water, farmland, scarce minerals, etc. That's actually why most wars are fought.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Journalists aren't expected to be good at math or economics, but this huge mistake keeps being repeated. The announced and threatened tariffs were NOT in the amounts of 50 or 100 billions of dollars. The goods the tariffs are to be imposed on are valued at 50 or 100 billions of dollars. The actual amount of the tariffs to be collected (that is, the additional cost imposed on American consumers) would be some percentage of that; perhaps 10%, 20% or 30%, depending on the tariff rates imposed.
Bullshit. The only reason the U.S. has the large economy it does is because of international trade.
American people get control of their country back? To return to what, the 1950s?
If my neighbor has a resource I don't have but trades me fairly for access to it, then war isn't in either of our best interests.
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Like the rest of the tech industry all of Apples products are made outside of the US, primarily in the PRC
With the tax incentives for doing so and with the lure of slave labor in a country where retirement is measured in 9MM the wealthy were tripping over themselves to move operations out of the US.
This was very shrewd of the PRC as it tied American wealth to the fortunes of the CPC
So when the PRC is upset with something going on in the US government they talk to people like Cook and people like him tell politicians what to do
Money talks, others walk
Tim Cook meeting with Big Giant Orange Head to talk about trade, is like Richard Feynman meeting with an orangutan to talk about physics. Some shit may be thrown, drinks may be drunk, there may even be fun to be had! But no meaningful physics (or business) will be discussed.
BGOH claims he is a Very Stable Genius and business leader. That's why he withdrew from the TPP and then decided maybe he wanted back in. That's why he launched a trade war with China then claimed it wasn't a trade war. That's why he thinks trade tariffs are Very Good and Easy, yet no business leaders, no economists, and no Chambers of Commerce agree with that. Even the Republican Party writ large has Yuge problems with Trump's actions on the business file.
Cook's only goal here is to avoid becoming a Twitter target like Jeff Bezos is. The Twit In Chief is good at dragging people down but the only people he lifts up are himself, his family, and TrumpCo.
People aren't here to help the economy. The economy is supposed to be here people. People are the value, the economy is just one tool of money that people attempt to use in the order to help themselves. But under no means some people be sacrificed to maintain the economy the economy can die but people can can adapt and live other ways and still have a reasonable chance at happiness in life. In the end that's the whole point is to have the highest percentage of happy people in our population possible and to genuinely look for more ways to eliminate to satisfaction in conflict. The economy is not a deity to be worshipped and it's causing a problem there's not a damn thing wrong with with doing things a different way and trying other things until we get a better result. That's how things get better. Every human system eventually becomes obsolete as the world changes, even economic systems