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Ryan Petersen, CEO of Flexport, a global logistics firm, warned in a series of posts on X that ocean freight bookings from China are down 50 percent since Trump's tariffs hit. That could potentially wipe out as much as $1 trillion in economic activity if the tariffs remain in place for a full year, he estimated.

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",..could potentially wipe out as much as $1 trillion..." Well, didn't they say they would save trillions? ;-p

I thought we hated placing profit over ideals, did that change?

It depends on which ideals we're sacrificing the profits for, and also on whether we're sacrificing them needlessly.

Environmental protections are getting destroyed. As is food safety and data gathering about education.

The values being advanced are hate and pleasure from causing harm sold as masculinity

Profits are ideal for the shareholders.

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