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   RM> You do realize that your stock market has lost about $4 Trillion   
   RM> since the threat of Tariffs started..  ?   
      
   AT>Our previous president borrowed more than $3 trillion dollars and wasted   
   ever   
     >ent of it. The stock market crash, by comparison, isn't as bad. At least the   
     >estors knew ahead of time what they could be in for.   
      
   I would imagine most small investors didn't know about the planned tariffs   
   and didn't know what it could do the the markets BUT, true or not, the   
   markets tend to recover eventually from THREATS. It will be interesting   
   to see how many companies on the exchange will lose a lot of business   
   and stay down long term.   
      
   I don't think this thing is going to bankrupt either country, and it   
   will do less to you because you ae a much bigger market, but if he   
   ever really gets into tariffs rather than mostly just threatning them   
   coming 'next month', we may see some big changes.   
      
   He did start the tariffs on steel and aluminum, and we have already   
   had some layoffs due to that.. and then he backed off on those when   
   it's for your auto industry, likely when screamed at by your auto   
   people about the Billions of dollars it would cost them and the loss   
   of car sales when Canadians stop buying American cars out of spite   
   and your people buy fewer of them after the prices go way up.   
      
   RM> That info came strictly from counting the drop in the number of cars   
   RM> crossing the border and plane passengers heading to the USA compared   
   RM> to this same time last year. And there have been Thousands of people   
   RM> who have cancelled trips to the USA   
      
   AT>Surveying the number of cars crossing the border seems like it's possible to   
     > but it's not a statistic that warrants a reaction from anybody, and   
   "thousan   
     >of people cancelled trips to the USA" isn't surveyable information.   
      
   People often set up hotels and entertainments in advance, often with   
   a deposit, and the people who had already set those up are having those   
   things cancelled.   
   They aren't pulling numbers out of the air. The cars not crossing the   
   border are harder to quantify what they might have spent but people   
   with bigger plans would have spent a lot more money down there and   
   they are not going now. March break was a huge travel week here and   
   the travel numbers were down by about 40% compared to last year.   
      
   AT>I'm not doubting you, I'm just doubting these sources. Statistics don't make   
     >flinch.   
      
   If nothing else there are a lot of American small business owners near   
   the border that are already worrying about lay offs and bankruptcy..   
      
   We are seeing interviews with them on the news several times a week.   
   This isn't just speculation.   
      
   AT>The media has a way of triggering people into doing things. We should turn   
   th   
     >ables on the media by not getting triggered, and maybe we can trigger them.   
      
      
   I agree that terrible news and fear sells more news than good news and   
   the proof in what you said is in the damage that just the threats Trump   
   made has done to both of our countries.   
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