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   MP>One thing that did make the news is a story involving one of the   
     >administration's financial advisors, Peter Navarro.  He became "an expert"   
     >by writing books.  In those books, Peter is fond of using one "expert"   
     >source in particular.   
      
   MP>Turns out the source does not exist.  Their name is an anagram of Peter's.   
      
   MP>So the administration is using the expert opinions of a non-existent,   
     >made-up person because Trump's son-in-law found one of Navarro's books on   
     >Amazon and recommended it to his father-in-law.   
      
   The blind leading the blind?   
      
   A new story today said that Trump is telling people to buy or sell stocks   
   just before he announces a tariff (or postpones one) so the rich can make   
   money from the bouncing markets.. I'm surprised that by now people haven't   
   just stopped paying attention to his planned financial attacks..   
      
   But I think it's going to calm down or come to an end before too long.   
   Too many rich, powerful people are losing money and Canada has already   
   lost over 33,000 jobs just in the steel plants.   
      
   I couldn't quickly find current figures for the USA but in that search   
   what came up was the estimate that, if the tarrifs currently on hold   
   come through and stay, it will cost the USA over 2 million jobs.   
      
   There's already been a car plant in Canada and one in Mexico and   
   one in the USA that have shut down 'temporarily' while they try to   
   sort out how to survive the automotive tariffs.   
      
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