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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (147903)	7/24/2018 6:31:28 PM
From: SirWalterRalegh	3 Recommendations Recommended By bear 164 Piece of beef sag Respond to of 196991

In the end the taxpayers lose. "In the long run we are all dead"...John Maynard Keyes Taxpayers have benefited from the recent tax cuts. That means taxpayers win.....sometimes. This Friday we might learn that the US GDP has increased 4% for the quarter. Our trading partners China, Canada, Mexico and the EU are all in decline. It is an opportune time to use tariffs to reduce the balance of payments deficit that has existed for decades. The "status quo" where the US is taken advantage of is ending. China will be the big loser in the "tariff war". You can't win a war without significant suffering.

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (147903)	7/24/2018 7:23:36 PM
From: waitwatchwander	1 Recommendation Recommended By dvdw© Respond to of 196991

It seems to me China got use to negotiating against Qualcomm folk with weak hands and that is why we are where we are today. Fortunately, there is finally a new and hopefully more solid bunch across the table and it may well be that the Chinese have yet to acknowledge this change. There is no good reason for the Chinese to have taken as long as they have to decide upon NXP. All the trade crap is nothing more than an excuse for the dragging out of it all in hope of getting all they can. ZTE and Huawei actions of the last few years also come across as nothing more than trade shenanigans but those are being driven by a different crowd. It would be nice if some form of truly competitive global common sense did returned but that still appears rather unlikely. On the negotiating front, Qualcomm of late has moved in a more positive direction than others. Maybe some of that will now rub off upon opposing parties. If not ….. it's everyone's loss.