by Get Real! » Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:36 am
This coming Friday Trump’s crazy tariffs come into effect!
What the Trump admin doesn’t seem to realize is that there’s no such thing as a 100% US-made product any more… that will sell head & shoulders above the imported product because it’ll be way cheaper than the competition!
American cars as an example have countless foreign parts and products built into them… chips and rubber from Malaysia, parts from China, Japan… and many others.
The same goes for all American made white goods and electronic goods.
Even the local manufacture of clothing will be affected because the sewing machines and their parts will come from all over the world.
Same with American fertilizers, paints, even lumber from Alaska will be affected… because the machinery that cuts and processes the lumber or loads and transports the lumber, will not be 100% American made.
The situation is so complex that it’s impossible to calculate the pros and cons to the US economy with any level of accuracy, but what CAN be foretold is that the US consumer will be totally screwed from all this!
And with every single US consumer no longer able to spend what they once did… their dollar no longer able to travel as far as it once did… it should lead to an almost overnight and rather deep recession.
My prediction is that by the following Friday or one week later, Trump will have a major “Uh oh!” moment and he’ll be scrambling to make a multitude of adjustments!
But will all the other nations reciprocate with adjustments, or will America be stuck with the many follies?