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Trump gives Apple a giant break with wide-ranging tariff exemptions
It is important that the US manufacture its own products except for high tech like smartphones and computers. But we need to bring the broom industry back to America. :-)
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Apple hampered its Siri ambitions by penny-pinching
It is a big mistake to be cheap with important equipment. The small company I work for decided to buy cheap hobby Oscopes instead of professional grade equipment like Tektronix, Keysight, etc. and it ends up wasting a lot of time to get measurements that are not all that accurate.
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Behind the scenes, Siri's failed iOS 18 upgrade was a decade-long managerial car crash
Sad that Apple resorted to faking a demo at WWDC.
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Apple stock rocked for fourth day, despite brief signs of recovery
That’s from back in the day when the stock market was covered in a dignified manner without sound effects.DAalseth said:Louis Rukeyser liked to call it a Dead Cat Bounce.
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US big tech caught by surprise by the magnitude of Trump's tariffs
He isn’t going to be held to the law. That ship sailed away when the Supreme Court gave him a free pass. He can arrest the whole congress and court if he wants to. Nobody can stop him.foregoneconclusion said:Trump doesn't really have the power to levy tariffs. His "economic emergency" declaration per the IEEPA is completely bogus. He used trade agreements negotiated with China, Mexico/Canada by his own administration in his first term as the excuse for the emergency. He is on record praising those trade agreements when they were made. And if you read the powers given to the president by the IEEPA, levying tariffs is not included. It is not intended to give the president power over domestic commerce. See below..."IEEPA, as currently amended, empowers the president to
(A) investigate, regulate, or prohibit:
(i) any transactions in foreign exchange,
(ii) transfers of credit or payments between, by, through, or to any banking institution, to the extent that such transfers or payments involve any interest of any foreign country or national thereof,
(iii) the importing or exporting of currencies or securities; and
(B) investigate, block during the pendency of an investigation, regulate, direct and compel, nullify, void, prevent or prohibit, any acquisition, holding, withholding, use, transfer, withdrawal, transportation, importation or exportation of, or dealing in, or exercising any right, power, or privilege with respect to, or transactions involving, any property in which any foreign country or a national thereof has any interest by any person, or with respect to any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
(C) when the United States is engaged in armed hostilities or has been attacked by a foreign country or foreign nationals, confiscate any property, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, of any foreign person, foreign organization, or foreign country that he determines has planned, authorized, aided, or engaged in such hostilities or attacks against the United States; and all right, title, and interest in any property so confiscated shall vest, when, as, and upon the terms directed by the President, in such agency or person as the President may designate from time to time, and upon such terms and conditions as the President may prescribe, such interest or property shall be held, used, administered, liquidated, sold, or otherwise dealt with in the interest of and for the benefit of the United States, and such designated agency or person may perform any and all acts incident to the accomplishment or furtherance of these purposes."
https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45618
Historical fact: no other president has ever used the IEEPA to levy tariffs.
