Moon of Alabama:

Trump's Tariff Wars Will Hurt U.S. The Most

Because collapsing the economy will totally entice manufacturers to relocate to the US.

Trump is generally stupid. For Simplicius, Trump:

now wallows in a post-euphoric doldrums phase of his floundering second term, when virtually every one of his campaign promises has faltered or flopped. No Epstein, JFK, or 9/11 lists, no Mexican wall, no Fort Knox audit or UFO disclosure, no mass deportations, with ICE raids rumored to have halted, no promised US troop withdrawals from Syria, Europe, or elsewhere. Every other boastful attempt to capture Greenland, Canada, Panama, and everything in between has likewise fallen flat on its face, with countries no longer fearing nor taking the US seriously.

Meanwhile Trump works hard to destroy Constitutionally-protected free speech. with the help of Columbia University.

So, yeah. Cleverly stupid.

He appears to be using it as a tool for negotiations for his domestic and foreign policy goals.

Escalation Dominance developed into a formal military strategy after the development of nuclear weapons.

Careful differentiation between flexible response and escalation dominance can help policymakers recognize when one strategy is sold or characterized in the other’s name. In particular, those who describe escalation dominance as the ability to threaten “a symmetrical and proportional response” or as a situation in which “[w]hatever move we make, he can match it and go further,” are more accurately describing flexible response. Similarly, policymakers should be wary of calls for dominance that explain what it takes to compete, but not what it would take to demonstrate clear superiority.

DODGE activities could also be used as method of controlled chaos.

This week's art is a perfect metaphor, stilling chaos of movement of the moment to reflect and respond.

always gravitate to the locale with the least total cost on a full absorption basis. This includes costs one doesn't normally think of, like insurance. If your company uses same insurer, which charges a flat $5 per $100,000 covered, for any and all facilities, the insurance for a 200,000 square foot facility in east kakistan, which has a replacement cost of a buck per square foot will be vastly less than the insurance on a similar facility in Paducah costing 16 to 40 bux per square foot, for example. S(peaking of Paducah, energy costs in a chunk of the US just went up 25% for the portion delivered by Canada, oops.)

If the US is your primary market, sufficient tariffs could possibly drive you to relocate here, but if the US only accounts for something like 10% or 20% of your sales revenues, you'll just write it off as market and stay where you are

be well and have a good one.

Can't say if tariffs good or bad. Understand arguments but not enough historical knowledge. Problem is infrastructure as you and others mentioned. Somebody pointed out that moving solar panel production to the US will not work as the Chinese who seem to own the market, also set up supply chains to feed solar panel makers. No such thing in the US. Also, US companies will jack up prices to the sky and blame tariffs even though it may not be true.

As the Russians. When Europe began sanctioning them up and down, they stopped all agriculture imports from the EU. No more French cheeses, wines, Spanish fruits, etc. But the Russians then took the long view and began focusing on import substitution and giving money to pig farmers to increase production of port, cheese makers, wine makers, etc. Seems to have worked as Russia has made itself by all accounts close to self sufficient as a country can be.

Of course, America does not have any sort of industrial nor agricultural, etc policies. The guiding principle is just pure greed. This happened during Covid lockdown when meat prices soared and blamed on increased costs. A number of economists say bs; it was all to increase profit margins. I think some lawmakers, etc, threatened regulation and suddenly the prices went down.