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Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by watwut »

nunorbatista wrote: post #33
watwut wrote: post #16

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Like, seriously and not just Swatch. I wanted to buy myself a watch that would look good. Ended up with nothing because good looking watch dont seem to exist.

taste is subjective. Are you sure you know what you're looking for?

A watch that does not look ugly. I am usually ok with almost anything visually, but all the watches are in basically same ugly style.

I am not designing own watch if that is what you mean. I settled on cheap plastic ones, because well, since there is nothing better looking that cheap plastic I can go cheap.

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by orwin »

smusamashah wrote: post #138

It says Arabic numeral 3 and 9. I don't know why. Arabic 3 looks like this ٣

During the middle ages, France and Spain (and probably Sicily/Southern Italy) used two numerals: Arabic and Roman. In the end, Arabic numerals gave our (western) current numbers and Romans are mostly kept in titles and names.

Some watches still use Roman numerals (XII, III, VI, IX), Swatch specify here that those are Arabic (12, 3, 6, 9).

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by corimaith »

RestartKernel wrote: post #143
hshdhdhj4444 wrote: post #99

It’s actually quite shocking to leave the U.S. and experience the drastic fall in respect. The U.S. has over a century’s worth of dominance and control built in, so it’s not gonna unravel anytime soon and countries will need to grovel along for a bit. But the decoupling has begun, is almost certainly irreversible and is gonna hit Americans hard at most a decade from now. We have no idea the the chain of motion that h…

From my Western European perspective: what's specifically striking is how sentiment towards China has improved in turn. Not sure what caused it exactly, but my guess is 1) the U.S. as common rival, and 2) the amalgamation of fears of Chinese manufacturing with newfound fears of U.S. big tech into European nationalism to replace some vague sense of "Western" alliance. The latter may be turning China from the big geopo…

Virtually every single one of Europe's prized industries are in China's crosshairs.

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by coldpie »

watwut wrote: post #16
louthy wrote: post #8

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Swatch watches are all ugly tbf (imho, of course). But let’s face it, this is more of a statement than a product

Like, seriously and not just Swatch. I wanted to buy myself a watch that would look good. Ended up with nothing because good looking watch dont seem to exist.

Are you disliking the big honking watches with like 3 subdials? I don't like those either.

I lean to the minimal style, so I recently got one from Obaku. The one I got is technically in their women's line; women's watches tend to be simpler, and I have small wrists so women's watches tend to fit me better. Skagen also makes nice minimal stuff.

I also sometimes dig around used watch forums like WatchUSeek. You can find dozens of cool watches from the 60s-80s, many mechanical, for like $50-200.

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by RestartKernel »

corimaith wrote: post #153
RestartKernel wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From my Western European perspective: what's specifically striking is how sentiment towards China has improved in turn. Not sure what caused it exactly, but my guess is 1) the U.S. as common rival, and 2) the amalgamation of fears of Chinese manufacturing with newfound fears of U.S. big tech into European nationalism to replace some vague sense of "Western" alliance. The latter may be turning China from the big geopo…

Virtually every single one of Europe's prized industries are in China's crosshairs.

No doubt about that, but I'm talking general sentiment. Not the conclusions you'd get to after careful deliberation.

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by corimaith »

vasco wrote: post #67
Borealid wrote: post #59

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Let's imagine, hypothetically speaking, that demand is perfectly inelastic. The price of a good is $10, and buyers will absolutely refuse to pay more than $10 under any circumstances. Before a tariff is imposed, the seller sells the good for $10 and keeps $10 in revenue. If a tariff of $1 is imposed under these hypothetical circumstances, does the buyer pay more? Does the exporter get paid the same as before? Clearly…

>I find it mildly amusing that there are so many people claiming that it's 100% on one side or other, when it's trivially easy to see why that can't be GUARANTEED TO BE the case. To be fair most people on one side think they know better than Adam Smith and the people on the other side usually never opened a book, so it's a tough bargain.

The underlying motivations regarding trade imbalances are Keynes' works. If you go back to Bretton Woods you'd find actually alot more support.

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by carlosjobim »

kryptiskt wrote: post #145
carlosjobim wrote: post #125

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They don't sell for the highest possible price, because sales would suffer, they try to sell for the price point that brings them most profit. Adding tariffs will change the point of maximum profit upwards, drastically so for low margin goods.

Companies sell for the highest price they can without losing more sales than it's worth, exactly as you say. I thought it was such common knowledge as not needing to be mentioned.

Adding tariffs means that you might have to lower your profit margins to remain competitive or that you will have to stop exporting to that nation completely, or start manufacturing in that nation. Which is the purpose of tariffs.

Re: What if tariffs?

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Post by jenadine »

lreeves wrote: post #146
lijok wrote: post #136

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I see, so like saying "we'll make it less appetizing for our nationals to do business with you, so they'll go shopping elsewhere"?

Exactly right. There are trade deals forming between countries that in unprecedented ways to avoid dealing with the constantly changing tariffs while one country says they'll take their ball and play alone.

But the US is the bigger country just next to it, also the most practical to trade with. Trading with country further appart means less efficient in transport. Is it not still self inflicted harm?
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