Two birds with one stone at play today: let’s figure out how to merge Canada into the United States and how to get rid of the celebrities who want to move to Canada? Shall we?
“Damn right I want to leave. Fuck Trump! I’m going to Canada. No, I’m going to China or is it Cuba? I know it starts with a C.”
President Donald Trump — fresh off a boffo State of Trump World speech to the Enthusiastic Republicans and the Surly Democrats in the US Congress — announced today a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve.
Canadian Softwood Lumber Tariff — what ever happened?
Big Red Car here on a drippy and rainy gray ATX day. It has been raining for almost a month.
Today, we talk about what really happened by the imposition of the Canadian Softwood Lumber 20.8% tariff back in May 2017.
Of course, the Canadians and the Americans – National Association of Home Builders – immediately began to cry foul predicting that the price of a US home would go up by $9000.
The business press said “Trump is an idiot. This will cause a huge trade war.”
Now, of course, we have some firm evidence as to what did happen. In fact, after hitting a peak of $653 per thousand board feet, the current price of lumber is $313.40/thousand board feet.
That’s right lumber has gone DOWN after the imposition of the tariff. Here is the price of a thousand board feet of lumber from the inception of the tariff until today.
Big Red Car here in the ATX expecting some nice weather today — sunny and 75F. Ahhh, winter is a nice time, y’all. It is winter somewhere, right?
So The Boss loves Canada. He wants Canada and the United States to merge. Thus far, there is no traction on this score but he wants YOU to visit. Continue reading
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