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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The markets are naively thinking his Treasury secretary will talk him out of it. Lol [/quote]

When you bid on a house that’s been on the market for a year do you bid exactly the ask or do you bid 10-20% down because you have the advantage as the buyer in that situation? America can afford to play hardball with all these countries because at the end of the day they’re in a lot worse situation than us if we put tariffs on their goods and limit access to our consumers, not the other way around. I thought this was common sense…[/quote]

You have to remind yourself that you’re arguing with people who have never closed a deal in their lives, who have no idea they’re getting swindled when they gladly pay a GC $75,000 for a full bath reno. Having a discussion about negotiation tactics with them is a fool’s errand. [/quote]
Ok genius.  The point of hardball negotiation is to get a concession.  What, exactly, are we trying to get from Canada?   His Majesty’s tweet mentioned stemming the flow of drugs and immigrants from Canada.  Neither is remotely a front line issue for the US.  In fact, by most accounts the flow of drugs is the other direction, from the US into Canada.  So again… what strategic concession (trade or otherwise) are we trying to wrangle from Canada?  If there isn’t one, then it’s just a petulant old man throwing bricks at our allies because he can.[/quote]

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