stevedownunder

It's time of Tim to stop messing around, take the gloves off and start using Corporate Funds to hit back.
He only gets the message when people stop appeasing him.

Show some leadership, get other business leaders on board.

Inside every box and in every ad, inside every store the message should be

"President Trump is changing you, the American consumer 25% tax. This tax is paid by you, not Apple, not India, not China, not by any other country. President Trump is taxing you."

RM Williams boots are fantastic...I've had a pair for about 10 years and still great condition and hard wearing

No pretentions or crazy brand names just high quality shoes and boots made in Oz....

Me: "I saw a pair of men's ankle boots in the window, brown, with a wrap around buckle strap at the top, can't see them on display"

Salesperson "Ah, you mean the ankle brown buckle boots..." 


We call things as we see them down under !

Mike Wuerthele said:

DAalseth said:

China is NOT the only place on earth that has rare earth elements. Large deposits are in Canada, the US, Australia, and elsewhere. It’s just that China was the cheapest place to get them so the other sources have not been developed. It will take time to get the operations going, but the process was started during the first Trump term. 

This is mostly addressed in the article. The folks we've spoken to about it say that spinning up rare earths in the US will take at least another five years, if at all.

I saw someone saying at least 20 years to build up rare earth metals refining and because of the pollution no-one will want it in their own back yard.... 

Which basically means China is the only game in town until mid century other than re-cycling and I'm not sure where that would take place and how much effort it would be to re-extract the metals from old gear.

"Steep" is probably the wrong word.

Maybe "Slight" or "Minor" would be better and be more accurate.

Just arrived in New Zealand...