do you call two knives "scissors" just because you momentarily rub them against each other? — flannel jesus

stock market is up 6%. — RogueAI

As mad as it may sound the only 'reasonable' conclusion I can come to is something about consciousness is atemporal. — I like sushi

globalization has already happened in whatever ways. Goods-versus-bads is apparently a hot topic in some circles. Blanket globophobia is a wee immature, though. — jorndoe

Distrust in Trump's US doesn't mean mutual distrust throughout (if that's what you were seeing); in fact, it can lead to increased cooperation/collaboration/bonding elsewhere. — jorndoe

“The United States’ policy approach could support continued investment in the U.S. manufacturing sector,” says Jim Kilpatrick, former global Supply Chain & Network Operations leader for Deloitte Consulting LLP and a partner with Deloitte Canada. “It could also drive a notable shift in supply chain strategy by prioritizing reshoring while potentially altering recent nearshoring and global sourcing trends.”

U.S. manufacturers import a variety of products, parts, and raw materials from around the world, and supplemental tariffs levied on these items could affect supply chain strategies as organizations manage costs and potential supply chain shifts.

“Economically viable opportunities for reshoring production to the U.S. are likely to be higher-value, complex products with strict quality standards, produced with technologically advanced, higher-capital-intensity processes, and a workforce with higher-level skills,” says Kate Hardin, a managing director with Deloitte Services LP. — WSJ

The real problem in the US is in income distribution, not globalization — ssu

If those posts are of better quality than us humans here (and they probably would be), isn't human philosophical discussion a bit of mockery? — RogueAI

Are you actually in the shower curtain business?

No. Your whole issue is a thought experiment. Yet if you would link to an article on how the shower curtain business is actually making great advances again in Michigan (or where ever), then there would be more credibility to your argument. — ssu

Sticking to your party line in a country where the both parties are at fault of this mess, that I don't get. — ssu

It doesn't once occur to you that autocracies start with giving the people what they want and need. You've rendered yourself blind.
— frank
Rooting now for autocracies, Frank?

On a philosophy forum? Or being ironic? — ssu

Whatever you say. — Mr Bee

It's hard for me to folllow what his actual plans are if there even are any, but if I recall wasn't this entire thing just to bring back manufacturing to the US? That isn't happening thus far: US manufacturing extends slump; factory employment lowest in 5 years — Mr Bee

Now just ask yourself, is truly a huge drop in imports something that makes Americans better off? — ssu

Given your affinity for neoplatonism, I'm quite surprised it doesn't at least make some sort of sense. In its broadest sense, the general idea is quite flexible. — Count Timothy von Icarus

Yes, exactly. :up: So if we say an essence is a definition, it'd be a bit like saying New York City is the name "New York City," or that smoke, as a sign of fire, is fire. — Count Timothy von Icarus

The way St. Thomas puts it in De Ente et Essentia, which is fairly standard, is that essences are the metaphysical reality, and definitions are the signification of that reality (the signification of the quiddity). . — Count Timothy von Icarus

How are you clueless? — Paula Tozer

So essences is just giving definitions. — Apustimelogist

The idea of essence/form is very broad, it's just the idea of a prior actuality that stands in relation to interaction. — Count Timothy von Icarus

The ‘important stuff’ I see Trump doing is undermining democratic norms, attacking science, public education, public health and public broadcasting. — Wayfarer

We will have to wait and see. — Banno

The tariffs are curious because they are somewhat novel and unpredictable. Estimates put the reduction of US GDP at about 6%, and it is this slow down of the US economy that will have the greater effect on Australia, rather than a 10% tariff on our exports to the US. If everyone else ends up paying 10% or more, then that makes little difference to our competitiveness in the US market. — Banno

remember that it is the US customer, not Australia, who pays the 10%. — Banno

Yesterday. I read the Kyiv Post maybe once or twice a week. — Banno

The highest tariffs in almost a century haven’t caused inflation to surge. The phenomenon has puzzled economists, some of whom suspect that companies have so far simply been reluctant to pass along the extra costs to their customers.

But another argument for the limited impact is gaining traction: that tariffs being paid by importers are lower than advertised.

In a new study, Barclays economists went through census data to see what tariffs importers actually paid in May. They found that the weighted-average tariff rate—the average of all tariffs, adjusted for import volume from each country—that month was around 9%. That number is well below the 12% rate that they had previously estimated based on White House announcements, and far less than what some others have estimated.

The reason is that more than half of U.S. imports were duty-free, the Barclays study says, and because many U.S. companies and consumers bought less from countries with higher levies, particularly China.

“The real surprise in the U.S. economy’s resilience lies not in its reaction to tariffs but that the rise in the effective tariff rate has been more modest than commonly thought,” the Barclays report says. — WSJ

JPMorgan economists argue that actual tariff rates in June were lower than headline averages suggest because importers switched to countries with lower tariffs or to domestic producers.

These lower effective tariff rates could help explain why consumer prices haven’t risen as rapidly as some analysts feared. The impact of tariffs has been a charged topic. Trump this week asserted that tariffs haven’t caused inflation and called on Goldman Sachs to replace an economist who had predicted price increases.

The new tariffs raised $58.5 billion in revenue between January and June, according to the Penn Wharton Budget Model. And inflation has crept up in recent months, with prices of imported goods such as furniture ticking higher. The latest inflation readings remain well above the Federal Reserve’s benchmark of 2% year over year. In July, wholesale prices rose at the sharpest monthly rate in three years and well above economists’ forecasts.

But the overall inflation picture in the first six months of the year hasn’t been as ugly as many feared it would be in the wake of President Trump’s tariff hikes. — WSJ

Politics suggest we may not get the best of all possible worlds. Sure, tariffs turned out less bad than feared. Even if the most extreme claims of Democrats that democracy is dying turned out to be right, investors have long been able to make good returns from stocks in autocracies, so long as the autocrat doesn’t fall foul of more-powerful countries.

But the president’s firing of the BLS head and attacks on the Federal Reserve mean the U.S. is less likely to get decent data on its most important statistics or nonpolitical interest-rate — WSJ

but the question of why it is more plausible seems to lie in the ability to equivocate on the way in which water, ice, and steam "are" H2O — Count Timothy von Icarus

Sorry, but I don't really get the relevance of being an abstract object to rigid designation. — Ludwig V

Yes, but don't see how it applies in the planets case. — Ludwig V