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@Geeker 41; of interest to stakeholders everywhere...

paul, Unfortunately my stake (financial, that is) has been considerably diminished by Cheeto Mussolini's incoherent and incomprehensible tariff blitz. 😭

Same here, geeker. That voters actually thought Dementia Don's tariffs would boost the economy shows they are even loonier than he is.

darla, it's even funnier to see the (presumably somewhat intelligent) GQP Cabinet and courtiers pretend that this crap makes sense.

In one laughable instance, they tried to look smart by publicizing a tariff equation including Greek letters. But the Greek letters are nonsense, as they represent price elasticities which are (dubiously) assumed to multiplicatively cancel out, resulting in a factor of 1.

You can find a (slightly addled) parsing of the gibberish at

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-04-03/the-tariffs-have-some-math

(Open in an "incognito" window if paywall is an issue)

Graecum est, non legitur

Don't worry, his minions will have set up all the heavy manufacturing paraphernalia by the end of next week.

Mattrom@49, noted. Thanks for letting me know.

I won't be around for voting either as I've had a family emergency and will be on a plane in a couple of hours. Hoping it's not too serious.

Early voting: geeker @19

Thanks Darla. Hope everything’s ok.