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'We will not hesitate': Canada prepares to hit U.S. with billions in tariffs
(www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
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I'm going to love watching that smug tone vanish when you come to the realization that the US Dollar is a world currency and without it, it will cause widespread economic depressions across the world.
edit: I guess y'all don't like to hear the truth. go ahead and bury your heads in the sand while orange putin destroys the world economy.
That still doesn't mean that what Trump is doing isn't a dumb mistake
*was a world currency
Gold, local currency, you dont need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out.
LOL, gold... What year is it? If someone tried to give me gold for food in a global meltdown situation, I would tell them to fuck off.
Cool story, we are talking international currencies, Read the thread before looking like a fool
you're thinking too locally. countries have a reserve of USD on hand to use as trade and an easy way to pay debts. this is why USD is called a "global reserve currency"
what do you think happens to those other countries that hold USD reserves when it drops in value?
it's an economic depression! hope you're ready for your grocery bill to quadruple. do you think your power company will accept payments made in gold? silver? pleasures of the flesh?
doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen once the USD halves in value. complete economic meltdown.
the question you should be asking yourself is, who benefits from this?
Aw man I seem to vaguely remember a short time when this wasn't happening ever since I've been of working age, but it already feels so distant now...
Comical.
Maybe for Americans where groceries are highly highly processed let alone majority imported.
Grabs locally grown whole foods including popcorn and gets healthier
can't be edgy while you starve.
you'll think back to this moment when you're hungry.
Better start prepping then so you don't starve
You'll think back at this moment when you've got a full stomach.
you're right, I will. but not for the reasons you're implying.