Posted on 09/30/2010 4:40:25 PM PDT by blam
Edited on 09/30/2010 5:30:49 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Last Sunday in Prepare for Currency/Trade Wars; How Might China Respond to US Tariffs? I mentioned the possibility China might shut off exports of rare earth metals used in making glass for solar panels, motors that help propel hybrid cars like the Toyota Prius, and laser guided bombs.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketoracle.co.uk ...
And so it begins as the world knows we are weak.
Free Trade is our Friend
Waiting for the first Idiot Free Trader Globalist to say that “its good to free trade with Communist China”.....in three, two, one.....
More gifts from an Obama presence in the Oval Office....this is what WEAKNESS AND PANDERING gets America.
Obama’s bowing got us nothing!
Many of us knew this was coming.
What happened to our strategic metal reserves?
The tariffs were stupid, the last thing you need in a recession/depression is a trade war to make things worse.
The tariffs were stupid, the last thing you need in a recession/depression is a trade war to make things worse.
The Communist Chinese have been in a Trade War with the US ever since they “opened up” their “markets”. Only a Free Trade Globalist thinks that Communist China has been playing fairly all these years.
Need a 25% tarriff on all goods from Communist China. Problem is that Obama is too much a Liberal Globalist to do anything about Communist China
The big problem is that while we do have rare earths, we also have this:
“But Smith’s effort to turn Mountain Pass into an environmentally friendly producer—call it the Whole Foods of premium free-range sustainable neodymium—comes with costs his Chinese competitors don’t have to pay: for starters, $2.4 million a year on environmental monitoring and compliance...”
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/clean-energy-apos-s-dirty-little-secret/7377/
They've been strangely quiet.
Didn’t we go through this exact same thing about a day ago, troll? And you got offended when I predicted that you would do it again.
You’ve been strangely blind.
We need bomb recycling programs!
It’s nice to trade with neighbors, but not at the expense of the country’s ability to fend for itself if it has to.
So, are you the Idiot Free Trader Globalist we’ve been awaiting?
Everyone’s playing for real except us... we’re the last of the fools...
Gosh, I don’t know . . . what do your friends say about me on Kos?
What happened to our strategic metal reserves?
effing regulations by the envirowako’s...I know companies laying off employees because of the prices and China holding them hostage. Very crazy stuff. This is an important element as the article states.
Every good depression needs a trade war to make it really serious.
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