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  1. Some will no doubt consider China as an alternative. But China's longstanding anti-competitive practices are already harsher than anything the USA has ever done, including these new tariffs. Talking about turning to China is easy, doing it in practice is much more difficult, and more painful. Almost time to BUY!!!
  2. If anyone thinks China is going to be less heavy-handed than the US, they're kidding themselves. Rock and a hard place for those countries.
  3. So the choices are Virginia Tech on steroids, or Virginia Tech on meth...
  4. Among the scholarly community that studies economics, there's not a consensus on whether or not tariffs are effective. Their effects in the highly complex global macroeconomy are hard to measure and conclusions are difficult to derive. I'm not an economist but through my professional career I know a decent amount about international business and a great amount about global supply chains. In general I'm opposed to tariffs, I prefer to see policies that stress positive internal economic incentives to pursue the desired changes to national business policy, rather than negative external policy like tariffs. But I don't believe these tariffs are actually being put in place in the usual way, in an attempt to discourage general anti-competitive behavior on the part of other global players. Trump usually tells us exactly what he's doing, whether we believe him or not, and he's already saying that these tariffs are all about bargaining power. This is his usual MO and it's not at all surprising. So in this case, analysis of whether or not tariffs in general are effective, is irrelevant. Rather, the speculation and debate should be about whether or not this particular bargaining maneuver will be effective. There's already been plenty of discussion along those lines, on this thread.
  5. Nice. Add a chrome roll bar with some daylighters on top, and then we're talking.
  6. *were
  7. Many companies in my area started them over a month ago. Disti channel is already seeing it, direct routes to market will see it starting today. Average of 10% increase across the board, higher in cases where value is higher. There's been a flurry of customer buy-ahead activity, that should come to an end now.
  8. The "talking to him for 3 days" translates to "Beard is tolerating the ags' advances just enough to secure a large pay raise and contract extension from his current employer."
  9. Well that, plus, Texas absolutely did not have to fire him. Texas could have kept him, and then when the charges were dropped, acted like everything was okay. Which would have been the wrong thing to do. Just like the ags attempting to hire him was the wrong thing to do.
  10. Per the announcement a little while ago:
  11. Nah my aggie wife and her direct family are awesome. The extended family, on the other hand, not so much. But I rarely have to interact with them, so it's okay.
  12. One of my aggie inlaws' aggie cousins told me straight to my face that UT was a sleazy disgusting win-at-all-cost hellpit and there's no way we would fire a horrible person like Beard, when it would hurt our chances of winning. Until of course we did a couple of days later, but I don't recall him having anything to say about that. I haven't talked to him in months but I sure would be curious to see what he thinks about Beard these days.
  13. It all started in 1876. Texas didn't join the SEC until 2024.
  14. Used to be standard at so many Tex-Mex places. Memories...
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