Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything

"Swimming naked," "bent... over the barrel," "supporting actors."

Do you always speak in grotesque metaphor, or are you capable of referring to concrete phenomena? Congratulations, there is a part of my mind that finds your vague idiom disconcerting. Moreso I am resigned to take your entire cadre less seriously—if such a downgrade is possible.

No that you care; I am "beyond hope!"

> In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like, that have taken possession of him.

https://www.onthewing.org/user/Bonhoeffer%20-%20Theory%20of%...

A perfect example of the simple-minded zero-sum thinking that’s going to make the world much worse the more it takes hold.