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

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462 points JumpCrisscross | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 20:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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BartjeD ◴[31 Aug 25 10:03 UTC] No.45081954[source]▶
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typeofhuman[dead post] ◴[31 Aug 25 11:49 UTC] No.45082456[source]▶
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valar_m ◴[31 Aug 25 12:37 UTC] No.45082726[source]▶
That seems extremely unlikely given the significant global economic impact of tariffs, and the comparatively microscopic effect of transgender athletic participation in the United States.

For example, when Kentucky passed their trans sports ban in 2022, there was a grand total of one (1) transgender high school athlete in the state[0].

I mean, it's almost laughable to suggest that any of those things are even near comparable to the potential long-term impact of historically unprecedented tariffs being thoughtlessly tossed around on a whim.

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trans-athlete-bans-fischer-we...

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1. mothballed ◴[31 Aug 25 13:26 UTC] No.45083005[source]▶
They are related in the sense that stuff like violent crime by ethnic gangs and transgender affirmation of children easily rile up people to Trump or others who will bluntly oppose it, and then you end up with poorly designed tariffs.

It was largely a failure of anti tariff other candidates to capture these other 'easy wins' needed to get to the point of implementing sane economic policy.