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To: TobagoJack who wrote (128743)	1/22/2017 12:49:16 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217587

China is now a PR machine to cover the realities lurking. No good at all. 2008 - 2014 China had to find ways to export and engaged Tier 2 and Tier 3 countries com gusto. Project financing like there was no tomorrow. Then the income from exports tanked and reserves started going down. The money to fiance the project abroad is no longer there. The tire exporting example is the usual for companies like Goodyear, Continental and Pirelli and China must have hired expat former tire experts and they taught the Chinese how to operate. Let I taught the Huawei Chinese since 2009 Let me explain to you how it works: The reason is for the tiremaker have a base where the exchange is low and it gets competitiveness. Say Toyota wants tires for cars. Mercedes Benz for Trucks Boeing for B777 John Deere for tractors Goodyear can bid for all of them! Factories and Thailand and can bid for trucks and planes. Good year factory in Brazil supplies for trucks and cars South Africa for tractors The Goodyear dealer seeks where the prices are lower and discovers that Indonesia Rupiah has crashed. Gets source tires for Toyota cars from Indonesia and wins the Toyota deals. As Rupiah crashed ti affected the Thai Baht and get Tractors and planes. Brazilian Real is also low and get the trucks tires from there and so it goes...

To: TobagoJack who wrote (128743)	1/22/2017 10:56:36 AM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217587

if ever there was cause to watch and brief..... especially irt to the Aussie venture, patience being the virtue http://coreyrobin.com/2017/01/21/donald-trump-six-theses/ Oxford University Press has decided to publish a second edition of The Reactionary Mind, which will come out some time around Labor Day. It’ll be completely reorganized: I’m going to overhaul the ordering structure of the chapters, I’m going to delete several chapters that I don’t think really worked, I’m going to add several new chapters. One of those new chapters will be on Trump, an assessment of his philosophy, the movement and party that produced him, and his first 100 days in office. It’ll be called The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump. In preparation for this new edition, I’ve been reading Trump’s The Art of the Deal. It was ghost-written by Tony Schwartz, who has disavowed the book as a literary Frankenstein that propelled Trump to the position he is in today. Which is odd: Schwartz seems to think the book created a fake image of Trump as a charming, brash, rakish entrepreneur, an image that Trump parlayed into a path to the White House. The truth is just the opposite: the book reveals Trump to be a cosmic bore, an epic blowhard who imagines himself to be more interesting than he is. As autobiographies go, I’d say it’s one of the more revealing ones. Here’s what I’ve managed to glean so far: 1. Donald Trump talks on the phone a lot. Fifty to 100 times a day. 2. On page 2, Donald Trump tells you that he doesn’t take lunch. On page 7, he says it again. On page 8, Donald Trump goes out to lunch. On page 34, he does it again. 3. Donald Trump likes earth tones. He doesn’t like primary colors. 4. At 12:45 on a Friday, Donald Trump’s then wife Ivana asks him to join her on a tour of a possible private school for their daughter Ivanka. Trump says he’s too busy. She says, “You haven’t got anything else to do.” He snorts, “Sometimes I think she really believes it.” Four hours later, David Letterman shows up at Trump Tower, wanting to film a sequence between him, Trump, and two out-of-towners from Kentucky. Trump agrees.When the sequence is over, Letterman says: “It’s Friday afternoon, you get a call from us out of the blue, you tell us we can come up. Now you’re standing here talking to us. You must not have much to do.” Trump replies: “Truthfully, David, you’re right. Absolutely nothing to do.” 5. Donald Trump says that the key to entrepreneurial success is “total focus.” Successful tycoons like himself have “a controlled neurosis.” They are “obsessive, they’re driven, they’re single-minded.” (Schumpeter, incidentally, agrees.) On page 1, Donald Trump says that when it comes to work, “I play it very loose…I prefer to come to work each day and just see what develops.” 6. Donald Trump says, “What I’m doing is about as close as you’re going to get, in the twentieth century, to the quality of Versailles.”

To: TobagoJack who wrote (128743)	1/22/2017 2:18:57 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By see clearly now Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217587

Hello TJ, it's wonderful to see the 19th century boom continuing with railways now being built across Africa as Great Britain built them across India in a bygone era. Whether one is a sheep in a paddock or a person in a cubicle, it's wonderful to have talented foreigners provide the fencing, cubicles and customers. One could whine and moan about being fleeced and exploited or one could be grateful that it's one's best opportunity as otherwise one would be forced do something else less desirable. I have been a production unit in many activities in several countries and was very happy to be so. I am super grateful that there are people as talented as Dr Irwin Jacobs and Andrew Viterbi and Klein Gilhousen and Rich Kerr and on and on who can bring their brains to bear on manipulating the four forces of the apocalypse to do their bidding and that they need investors and workers to make their ideas reality. Negroes in USA whine about slave ancestry but they are very lucky that their slave ancestors were valued higher by Americans than by their local owners. While a cubicle is not an ideal life, it beats the alternatives. I enjoyed my time in them. But 19th century England was little, whereas China is huge. With USA money, Made in China production and El Matador know how, with local yokel workers, fibre can be installed across Africa so that hordes of them can become nodes in the network. If Big D goes postal on China, then tyres can be made in Africa for John Deere in Australia. It's a Small World After All - which is an excellent Disneyland ride. Judging by the black skin of Africans, it's probably a good location for China to make photovoltaics for local installation. Norway not so much as they look more like polar bears. In 2020, with the return of Global Cooling [falsifying the Global Warming Settled Science], as predicted by Mq in Oct 2007, north Africa could become very attractive. The Sahara is very cheap. To MAGA, Big D will need to divert $trillions from carnage to production, make USA an Ashkenazi paradise, halve the number of bludgers and government kleptocrats, and half them again, and again, import swarms of 99 %ile people from around the world and generally resurrect Virtuous Victorian Values such as free enterprise. <<His magic economic formulae should be just twists and variations on confrontation, devaluation, dissipation, devolution, confiscation, redistribution, conflagration, and dissolution >> He doesn't have to have imagination, just the good sense to leave people alone who do, and not make everything illegal that isn't supervised by kleptocrats. Maybe he'll figure out that sending steel to Africa as rails is more useful than sending it to Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Baltics and the South China sea as tanks and reefs for marine life. Mqurice