The Japanese essentially did not want to face a 25% tariff on automobiles exported to the USA. At the same time, they did not want to permit full USA access to several sectors of their market. The solution is quite remarkable.
Japan agrees to be the bank, to essentially finance any national security priority of President Trump to the tune of $55o billion. In return, Japan gets a 15% tariff on automobiles, and 10% return on the profit of the ¹business they finance in the U.S. Japan is essentially purchasing a lower tariff rate.
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “We just completed a massive Deal with Japan, perhaps the largest Deal ever made. Japan will invest, at my direction, $550 Billion Dollars into the United States, which will receive 90% of the Profits. This Deal will create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs — There has never been anything like it. Perhaps most importantly, Japan will open their Country to Trade including Cars and Trucks, Rice and certain other Agricultural Products, and other things. Japan will pay Reciprocal Tariffs to the United States of 15%. This is a very exciting time for the United States of America, and especially for the fact that we will continue to always have a great relationship with the Country of Japan. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explains:
EXAMPLE: President Trump wants generic drug manufacturing in the USA. U.S. company ‘Main Street Drugs’ agrees to build a $100 billion manufacturing plant. Japan finances the building and company creation. Main Street Drugs owns and operates the business, keeps 90% of the profits, Japan gets 10%.
Trump (USA) has $450 billion in financing left to spend on the next priority, perhaps a railroad connection or transit system.
Pretty cool, solution.
Six months in and Every Day STILL feels like Christmas! Now if we could just finish taking down cartel-backed politicians and get paper ballots, hand-counted, for verified citizens only, our joy for our fellow Americans getting these new jobs will be matched by our joy in California!
You forgot, END THE FED. 🙂
Secretary Bessent yesterday called the Fed a sort of universal basic income for unemployed economics professors, so as the famous movie line goes, I think “he’s saying there’s a chance” God Bless MAGA Warriors. Time to go full Wolverine
If only! Could we really go back to a gold (or something else finite) standard though? The entire world is hooked on fiat. They want numbers to go up, even though they’re just numbers. Can you imagine a modern economy where wages and prices went down and it was considered a good thing? I don’t think that the people that run these economies and businesses are bright enough (IQ about 115-120) to see the potential benefits of finite currency. They’re hooked on numbers going up and fake credit allowing expansion. The long-term consequences of their approach should be obvious to anyone, as they’ve played out over 50+ years. Everything is cool until a bunch of people at the bottom and middle decide they want their, ya know actual gold (or whatever).
Arguably the point of fiat currency is making numbers go up without the corresponding increases in actual wealth creation. Inflation of assets by debasing the currency is the point.
Never mind that being close to where the newly created money enters the economy enables all kinds of ridiculousness.
Richard Cantillion wrote of the benefits to someone being in proximity to this newly created money in his writings. Such a person could use this newly created money and buy things with it before the 2nd, and 3rd order market forces could compensate.
Thus, the Cantillion Effect was named for him. Notably, Adam Smith also was acquainted with his works.
Gold backed currency would offer greater economic stability.
Such stability could cause a cultural shift toward community and family – a priceless quality of life situation.
This of course would take time to create.
And more importantly, the People must want it.
That is up to Congress
Totally agree 1000%. The other stuff can come later hopefully.
Excellent news. And an excellent program.
NOW – what I want to hear is: 1) that someone in this administration has a list of all the abandoned factories scattered all across the rust belt, in small towns and cities devastated when their factories were closed and their manufacturing jobs were shipped to China and elsewhere, and 2) that THOSE towns and cities, and THOSE closed factories, will get first crack at all the new manufacturing enterprises and jobs that these programs will bring to America. It does us NO good if the new jobs don’t benefit our established communities where we once raised generations of families.
So, how about it? Will this new manufacturing benefit workers, families, and communities? Or will it only benefit the Big Thinkers and tech bros who want to build “New Cities” in the middle of nowhere, and force workers to abandon the communities their Great Great Grandfathers built to move there to work?
We’re watching the next moves VERY closely.
https://www.the-american-interest.com/2018/10/15/the-working-hypothesis/
Agree 💯. Those cities and towns died and need to be resurrected. Saved , just like Jesus was resurrected to save us from death. It was not only the rust belt but the textile and furniture industry in the south was decimated.
Yes, bring back the textile mills and furniture builders, we had the best.
It could not have been stated any better. Excellent. Thank you sir.
What Jett96 said….in spades.
Restart our blast furnaces and rolling mills. That will require opening up the shuttered mines in Minnesota for iron ore. It was the union that shut down the mines, not lack of demand. They wanted more and more and more….. 🙁 We need to produce a lot more domestic steel, and aluminum and copper. The furnaces need coking coal and limestone. It will take a bit of modernization to get the furnaces up and running but the money is there for that.
God bless the USA!
Yes! And just in case they haven’t figured this out, the answers as to HOW we do it will not come out of Washington. All they have to do is ask the locals how to accomplish it, then turn them loose to do it.
Tap the collective intelligence of we retired Yinzers for that.
Mike,
I agree with you.
Yet there was a lot more blame to go around besides labor.
Yes, labor got greedy. However, things compliance costs with regulations was a big one. Management being “wed” to older technologies simply because they weren’t fully depreciated yet while the rest of the world adopted newer, more efficient technologies. Changes in tax accounting laws would have helped with that.
Localities that saw industry as a cash cow for local tax revenue.
It was a death by one thousand cuts, so to speak.
You could say the same about property taxes on homeowners: there’s no incentive for local governments to be efficient, since they can simply raise taxes to fund their wasteful spending and fantasies. Same with fees on new home building: fees to developers / builders keep rising to “whatever the market will bear” and home prices keep going up and up and up. Hopefully kicking 20,000,000 illegals out will reduce the competition for homes.
Just wondering what countries in the rest of the world were using more efficient technologies and in what industries, or was it all industries. Also, I assume if regs and restrictions are costing you more money you would be unwilling/unable to upscale your technology and still remain profitable. And yes, there was a lot more to blame besides labor, labor was probably just a small piece of that pie really.
It’s why we need eight years. That is the lament from the first term. We need these things built/re-built and sustained not taken apart by dems in the house or a new dem president.
Sorry, but that is the huge key to this.
I’m a long-time lurker, this is my first post. I appreciate the enthusiasm for rejuvenating the rust belt, but remember, the folks and their kin in these towns have not worked for 3 generations. I have witnessed that they need to be taught what it takes to get up and go to work every day, on time, and be productive.
Welcome to the Treehouse Hedgeapple! 😀
A great point, oft overlooked – human nature. It’s time to teach a man to fish…
Sorry, but I can’t resist. I love fractured sayings.
Give a man a fish,
and he’ll be fed for one day.
Deport a man,
and you’ll never have to feed him again.
Teach a man’s wife to fish, and he’ll be fed for life. 😁
Yes, but it’s a little more than that. I think we’re at the point that you have to teach a man exactly why he should want to fish. So it has something to do with the way people have been trained to think. That needs to change first. But maybe once the process starts and some people start succeeding others will see and follow suit. There’s something in mankind’s thinking that makes him not want to be left behind. Hopefully that’s still there.
That’s where our PRAYERS come into play!
“Nothing is too difficult for The LORD!”
HE will direct!
BLESSINGS everyone!
I’m sorry but we’ve made it way too easy.
One of my first jobs as a teenager was as a cashier in a grocery store. WIC was used to purchase staples like dairy, (think eggs, cheese, milk) fruits and vegetables, and meat. These are all located around the perimeter of every grocery store even to this day. The idea of buying “convenience” foods or using your benefits at a fast food joint would have meant you would have been laughed out of the store……….empty handed and hungry. But nowadays, this is accepted. I think this is so wrong.
I understand people can get in a bind and need a leg up. I’m not talking about temporary situations.
It is true that there is some real dysfunction in the home and it has become generational but we’ve got to start somewhere to break the cycle of dependence and poverty. I think some communities have made this work with urban gardens. President Trump has proven that he has put together teams of people that come up with some pretty creative ideas. We need a fresh look at how we change the mindset of unemployed folks.
People can be taught basic motivation and productivity.
Unfortunately, up to now, there has so much corruption in these social programs. I pray that President Trump and his team can cut through the many unnecessary administrative layers and really get long lasting help (teach a man to fish?) to the people who need it
I am 66 years old and shop around the perimeter of my grocery store. I do have to step into the interior to purchase green salsa, black olives, canned tomatoes, dried cranberries, and artichoke hearts. But everything else is in dairy, meat, fruit, and lots of vegetables.
Americans are very charitable and will donate generously to help others. But We The People do not like our tax money being redistributed via forced charity.
It essentially corrupts the idea of charitable giving. It puts the government in charge which is redistribution, not charity. And they don’t have any vested interest in how successful the program is or how the dollars are being spent, because it’s “other peoples money.” It’s such a messed up system.
Yes, the government becomes people’s god–they look to it for everything, and that’s the way the government wants it. So we replace faith in God with faith in the government. The church is highly culpable here. Once I needed help as a widow, and so went to my church that I’d been going to for years and you know what they did? They handed me an application for government assistance… I refused. And then I left that church. The church has a mandate from Jesus/Yahshua to help the widow, the orphan, the poor and when they don’t the government steps in and now you have just given your power, the force for good that you’re supposed to be, over to a Godless entity who will rule over you.
If they see that the jobs are going to be sustaining, decent pay, fair benefits, and a loyal employer, then there will be no problem with the rebirth of a devastated area.
‘…a loyal employer…’
No such thing.
(Other than very small and close mom & pop type businesses.)
Generations of people’s thinking has been corrupted. Generations were raised on having a high work ethic, on the fact that one “needed” to work and were expected to work and provide for themselves and a family. That way of thinking has been totally erased in most cases and not just in poor areas. Can we bring back those high moral standards so we can excel again? I think that’s the question.
Speak up more often Hedgeapple!
I agree with your point, and I raise you: I’ve read that the expertise required to run many of these manufacturing facilities is being lost as people age out of working age, and as they die off.
No one but President Trump cared to return manufacturing to the U.S., other administrations either facilitated/condoned the many decade long offshoring, or they were agnostic about it.
Rust belt states will need to actively pursue businesses the way sun belt states do.
High taxes and closed shops have trouble competing with low taxes and right to work
High taxes and closed shops have right to work laws too. Many times taxes are waved to bring businesses in. Problem is workers can’t support rural counties alone no matter what state you’re in. A tax break of 50% is better than no taxes from businesses at all!
It’s not so much loss of expertise, as it is loss of work ethic. People who are willing to work, are generally motivated to learn and are trainable. Older workers are constantly being trained too.
Welcome aboard! You are right. We live in a rural county that had several large businesses to support the community. Everything is gone except a windmill plant, a dying business and a cheese factory. The largest employer is now the Public School system. Any town or county positions are handed to relatives. Covid destroyed local small town businesses. Available teens either do nothing or go to college and don’t come back. Job opportunities would keep more extended family local and productive!
….as opposed to living in a perpetual hazy high from various substances / drugs from mary jane to meth, fentanyl, and oxy… while being on some form of government subsistence pay. Yes, that’s actually 100% believable.
That’s quite a remarkably unique observation that few have voiced thus far in response to President Trump’s well-meaning intentions to re-start the manufacturing sector.
Perhaps that’s another reason for the corporate ownership class to “quietly” support the importing of so many illegal aliens, many of whom that still have a hard work mentality…..
So true.
But let’s pre-filter those for red versus blue areas though. Cash raining down on Detroit for example might be a waste.
There are some legitimate entrepreneurs trying to rejuvenate Detroit.
I don’t think it is a completely lost cause yet.
Mike Duggan has made a remarkable improvement in Detroit.
However, Detroit is too big to manage well. I would suggest various neighborhoods be annexed by the bordering cities / villages, which could take on revitalization projects of a more reasonable scale, than tackling revitalization of the entire city. Dealing with the huge land area, and the many near-abandoned neighborhoods, is like cleaning up the legendary Augean Stables.
Create urban orchards in the emptied and broken down Detroit neighborhoods. Vegetable farms also will revitalize the area, provide jobs, food and beautiful green lands.
Bring back quality furniture manufacturing to the
Piedmont region of NC
Definitely!
Quality-minded craftsmen were replaced by sociopathic profiteers.
Hardwoods largely disappeared.
There’s a lot of wishful thinking stuck in byegone days in this thread.
There’s also some misinformed, deliberately pessimistic propaganda in this thread…
Hardwoods have NOT largely disappeared.
“American Hardwoods: Renewable, Abundant and Sustainable
Are we running out of American Hardwoods? Hardly!
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Department reports that hardwood growth far exceeds removal and that the resource is neither scarce nor finite. Here are the facts that outline exactly why America is not running out of hardwoods.”
https://www.hardwoodinfo.com/consumer/green-sustainable/american-hardwoods-renewable-abundant-sustainable/
Yes: but hope too
But keep the factories out of the flood zones in that region as discovered during Hurricane /Tropical Storm Helene….
GREAT IDEA Trapper!
BLESSINGS
And the revenues from all the outsourcing of your jobs will stay with the managements while foreign countries pay for the reestablisment of the production!? – thats really a win win – maybe a bit amoral, but wth – might makes right!
The infrastructure is demolished and would require a total rebuild.
Abandoned buildings “die”, both public and private.
This requires extra monies invested, by Whom?
Wow.
Just wow.
The
Dealmaker-in-Chief!!
PDJT Tariffs for the win…………………….
Trump and Our Return to the ‘American System’
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2025/04/03/trump_and_our_return_to_the_american_system_152594.html
How they can suck and blow at the same time is truly phenomenal.
But I agree…they really, really suck.
Your comments are NOT needed here, Thor.
You are a disgusting, worthless human being.
Please find a new home.
Then there are still some saying, but this or that hasn’t been accomplished!
6 months!
Whut? Trade deals? Vietnam, Philippines, Japan? But the very fake news, bat guano, apoplectic, hysterical drive by media sez that NO COUNTRY wants a deal with “Trump”…
To be honest these countries liked things the way they were. Trump has forced their hand, either virtually no access to US markets or you can make a trade deal. It is like Trump told them “I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse”, only Trump is willing to negotiate for a fair deal. We can’t continue the trade deficits that have been bankrupting our country.
Thanks but whether or not these countries liked things the way they were was not the point..
My point is that the media is correct, that no country wants a deal with Trump. They want things to stay the way they were before Trump. Trump is forcing their hand. If they thought, they could get by with the higher US tariffs they certainly would not come to the negotiation table. Trump’s position is if they delay or appear to not want to make a deal with Trump then he will impose higher tariffs on them; if they retaliate the rates go up. Countries are not making deals because they want to, it is because they have to. These countries would much prefer the old trade deficits compared to balanced/fair trade.
The drive bys were not saying countries won’t deal with President Trump because they like things the way are. The claim is that these countries do not like, trust or respect President Trump so they would not come to any negotiation table because eventually he would back off and “chicken out” when the US economy tanked – which is what they wanted to happen. “Cause orangeman bad and anything that is bad for the American people is good for propagandists
Yes, these countries liked things the way they were. But my snark was at the drive bys propagandists not the countries” perspective.
Thanks for the clarity. But the media just shows their arrogance and economic ineptitude. Meanwhile, wishing in one hand and …. in the other, only to have the fan of reality hit them in the face. Rinse and repeat with virtually any other issue when it comes to Trump. The MSM are a bunch of mockingbirds, they get their talking points, the truth be damned.
You really can’t make this stuff up. Bloomberg has a headline: “Trump may have given up too much in Japan trade deal.” (It’s behind a paywall so won’t link).
This is the same publication and WEF mouthpiece complaining for months about President Trumps economic agenda.
I know, I know: if I had a dollar for every example of globalists hypocrisy I’d be a rich man. But this is laughable.
So Japan had an extra $550 billion lying around? Methinks a particular post-war slush fund (M-Fund, cough-cough) was just activated.
Do a deep dive on “Yamashita’s Gold” and learn something new about long-hidden financial structures tapped into by our garbage elite for their pet strategic projects. “Gold Warriors” by Sterling Seagrave is an excellent book to learn more about this massive secret. And because it’s a secret, there won’t be any publicity about it other than good news linked to trade deals.
I bet the Agency’s Deep State psychos are pissed. This was part of their secret influence stash per President Truman’s 1947 order, not Trump’s money to spend on American greatness. Now it is. #AmericaWins
Here’s the Bloomberg article…
https://archive.is/3cMMO
From the article: “Even so, a major impediment to US auto sales in Japan is the American designs themselves- not just trade barriers. Put simply, Japanese consumers are less interested in driving Fords and GMs than Americans are in Toyota’s and Hondas. Japan sells the US about 84 cars for every one the US sells there.”
Ummm…trade barriers and auto regulations in Japan has kept American vehicles out of Japan. That is now being taken away.
This is like saying “I have never won anything on the lottery.”
“Really. Do you play the lottery often?”
“Nope. I won’t win anything.”
Actually, US passenger cars are mostly well-made now, the quality is not the issue.
Nor trade barriers and regulations.
The issue is that Japan needs smaller cars to fit their cramped infrastructure, with driver controls on the other side.
And this reveals something about this latest trade deal announcement: Talk is cheap, all the bluster about Japan accepting more US cars is BS because they can’t due to the design.
Which illuminates that Trump is all about BS and bluster.
I said nothing about quality.
How is it foreign cars made in the UK, et al, make product for the US consumers then? They put the steering mechanism on the other side!
Obtuse much?
Thank you Ad rem!
A dollar?
Just a nickel for each example and you’d be rich.
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds!
Awesome. Looks like a paper napkin could have been used to eat the deal.
I’m so glad this guy is on Team MAGA!!
SO blessed to have President Trump and Howard Lutnick (native New Yorkers!) working so hard for Americans. They know what this country needs…and they bring the receipts. Bravo!
The Happy Warrior!
There’s that magic wand again.
What will President Trump do with that $550B? Can’t wait to find out.
Bring back our paper industry
We need more corrugators here in the states, and quit using Chinese board for boxes and displays! Yeah, I was a designer in my past life… Lol (and also IT)
The city I grew up in had much of the paper cup market. They were good paying jobs.
Bring it all back. All the countries of the world should be concentrating on making their countries great. If they would concentrate on doing what improves the lives of their citizens instead of grifting , all countries could be prosperous.
Such a huge market!!! Soooooo many ways to be manufacured
and finished with!!! From rough lay-outs to comprehensive, to finished
products, are amazing!! Not to mention the machinery capabilities
in such a vast and broad processes which come to play for all
outcomes. It really really is A BIG DEAL!!!
Eyes Right…
POTUS Trump is GOAT at ‘The Art of the Deal”.
In any finance deal each investor has their own piece of the pie defined along with pecking order in the capital structure. My guess is that the will be placed highly in that structure as it does not seem likely that net return will be rather small. Amazing, Trump monetized access to the US market.
As August 1 approaches nations are realizing our President is not bluffing. They are scrambling. It’s like this show….sharks….tanks, something…
Shark Tank: Nations at the Table
And who gets to decide how the half trillion dollars gets doled out? Lutnick? Trump? Seems to me that the potential for corruption is enormous.
I find it hard to believe that Japan would agree to such an arrangement. Who would agree to put up 100% of the capital for a new business in exchange for just 10% of the profits? How stupid would the Japanese have to be to agree to that? I would like to see the fine print.
Japan’s biggest concern was its auto exports. Japan exports $50 billion in cars to the US each year. Doing the math, 25% of $50 billion is $12.5 billion a year. $500 billion divided by $12.5 billion is 40. Why wouldn’t Japan just hand its automakers $12.5 billion a year to negate the effects of tariffs? They could do that for 40 years, and the money would stay in Japan. These numbers don’t make any sense.
FFS, Karen. I’m sorry Kevin…who get’s to dole it out? The same damn people who do it now.
10% income stream for the life of the Company? Seems that they would likely recoup that $500b. I am sure there are other factors that make the deal worthwhile to Japan.
Also, the article specified that President Trump would decide on the investments.
They are providing 100% of the capital in exchange for just 10% of the profits. This is not how business works.
They are paying $550 billion for a lower tariff rate.
Have you ever purchased a home where you paid money to Buy Down the interest rate??? That’s a thing.
Japan is Buying Down their Tariff Rate by shelling out $550 billion dollars.
I just realized that there remains a 15% tariff on Japanese cars, so I have to redo the math since they are only avoiding a 10% tariff with this agreement.
10% of $50 billion is $5 billion a year. Japan has agreed to give the US $500 billion (to be used at Trump’s discretion) so as to avoid $5 billion a year tariff penalty on their automakers?
If true, the Japanese must be very dumb people.
I think if you also need to consider that they “did not want to permit full USA access to several sectors of their market.”
The Japanese are not dumb so I suspect that is where you will find their motivation.
According to Trump, the Japanese are opening all of their markets. They are even going to buy rice from the US.
Japan also gets 10% of the profits of every business. And this is ongoing. Japan becomes a 10% partner — they are the bank, but also a partner (10% partner) in every business that American companies build.
You are looking at it the wrong way.
Japan is paying $550 billion, for a 15% tariff rate.
Japan makes money by not facing/paying the tariff impact. $550 is pittance compared to the potential lost economic activity.
The math does not work out. Japan’s big concern was auto exports. It exports $50 billion in cars a year to the US. This “deal” reduces tariffs by 10% so they are avoing a $5 billion tariff penalty on auto exports. Why not just hand $5 billion to their automakers to subsidize exports?
Let’s see if this deal goes through. The announcement was unilateral. Japan hasn’t announced anything yet, and they are facing a change in government soon.
Because they anticipate will make even more billions on 10% profits for the companies they finance?
Nobody would provide 100% capital for a business and expect to get only 10% of the profits. If you put up 100% of the capital, you expect 100% of the profits. Business 101
Wow, I guess lucky for is and unlucky for Japan that you weren’t their chief negotiator. You know better than everyone in the room did.
Kevin should go call Japan right now and let them know that they got snookered. He knows a lot more than they do. He has seen their books and has a better plan.///////
Well, I kinda like you are doubling down taking on the operator of the site. He/she has answered your question twice. I’d leave it go until there was an answer.
The Japanese companies also need to remain profitable. They need to sustain their labor force. A high tariff on automobiles would devastate their economy. It is a win-win building both of our economies. Essentially reinvesting the auto profits they make from American car sales, money that would have gone into the US treasury anyway with higher tariffs. Very creative thinking to build something for the American people.
Japan is also opening their country up to imports from the US.
There’s the nat’l security factor in the trade deal also.
Japan will be the first responder to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Yes, I realize USA has assets stationed in Japan, but Japan is rapidly building their offensive capabilities. Don’t want war, but my crystal ball leans war.
Countries like Philippines and Vietnam would take pleasure in bloodying China.
Not an expert, but a 10% return on investment, coupled with a lower tariff rate, seems pretty good to me, compared to the alternative.
This is an interesting and hopefully mutually beneficial agreement. I have high hopes. Bonus to me that I’ve always had a soft spot for the Japanese people, and to a lesser extent the S Koreans. I sincerely hope that this bears fruit, and my gut says it will, because it was well thought out by both sides and their math works. God bless working with cultures that are capable of understanding and implementing mutual self-interest. It’s a fine break from all the Jihad and killing each other over which son of Abraham was favored.
Revamp nasa and make it work like it did in the 60”s.
Or buy out x or space x and revamp it.
The man is a financial genius.
You are looking at it the wrong way.
Japan is paying $550 billion, for a 15% tariff rate.
Japan makes money by not facing/paying the tariff impact. $550 is pittance compared to the potential lost economic activity.
Am I not understanding this correctly?
Would it not put huge shiver up the spines of the pharmaceutical companies that the government will now own manufacturing companies that produce the antibiotics and other drugs that the US government currently pays ridiculous prices for through Medicare and Medicaid?
And 90% the profits go to the American people. Wow. Is that right? So after expenses, the shareholders are the American public?
The 90% profits belong to the company who builds the business. Think of Japan as the bank. A company agrees to build a business President Trump says we need, and then Japan gives them the money to build.
The company operates the business, keeps 90% of the profits, and Japan takes 10% of the profits. So Japan becomes sort of a bank and business partner. That’s why President Trump in the quote Sundance gave said this will forge an ongoing relationship.
See Sundance’s example of a company agreeing to build a pharmaceutical business.
It is a public & private partnership. Many countries do this already. Japan built their great businesses this way.
Our President is a genius.
Yes, a genius for hiring Lutnick.
Man, I hope he doesn’t get into dutch with the President. He said it was “his idea”.
He is.
But even better, he is a genius who loves America and he loves people. His motivation for doing what he is doing is to help people. In my opinion, this makes him one of the greatest leaders the world has known.
True, he is not focused on the world — he’s focused on making America great. But doing that helps the people of the world. This will be especially true if other countries follow his example.
Japan and Korea deserve the most leniency. They are above Europe, UK and Canada when it comes to honor.
Who is actually investing in the Dow lately? It is creeping up now but by any sensible measure, I believe it should be exploding with all this tariff money and trade deals that are heading in President Trumps win column. Are these stock brokers anti-Trump also?
Who but President Trump would have thought of such a great plan! That’s a Win/Win/Win
The media will not report this deal. At least not honestly. So 80% of Americans won’t know anything about it — except maybe for lies that it terrible for the USA and will cost 50 million Americans their health insurance (the old Democrat lie they roll out every election).
Could DJT make the same deal with China for maybe a trillion or 2?
Doubt it would work out. President Trump made a deal with China during his first term.
Then Covid-19 happened and they were allowed to skate on fulfilling their obligations with the interregnum between January 21st 2021 and January 21st 2025.
China doesn’t want a deal or reciprical, they want dominance.
Tariffs:
Great job guys!
Out perform the expectations on the successes.
Double down on the punishment on the failures.
America First rules!
Who decides who gets to be “Main Street Drugs”?
Couldn’t watch to the end…..she insufferable. To be clear, to be clear, to be clear….ugh! Insufferable. But you go Howard! Love THAT a guy!
A unified Korea would become the 3 largest economy on Earth in 5 years!
Isn’t North Korea still essentially starving its own people?
And wouldn’t South Korea not only have to build an infrastructure and feed North Koreans, but de-indoctinate them?
Might take a bit longer than 5 years.
I think some serious credit is due for General McArthur for the ways he treated the Japanese following their unconditional surrender in 1945. Rather than rubbing their noses in it, he treated the Japanese people and their emperor with courtesy and respect. More importantly, perhaps, he allowed them to rebuild their country mostly on their own. Today, I think, the Japanese return our courtesy and respect in equal measures.
The Germans, on the other hand, were turned into a welfare state by the Marshall Plan, and their disdain for the USA is as alive as it was in 1945. They still hate us.
Interesting and sound observation.
Wow!
This is Yuge!
May be a good time to invest in small modular nuclear. It’s what powers nuclear subs and aircraft carriers. Safer, less risk, supply the needed power for upcoming data centers. You could even locate them on military bases to keep them secure.
You are completely correct. This is an excellent idea.
There is no reason for, at least, major military installations not have them. First off, the nuclear reactors will be well protected. Second, the installations will be, in terms of power, self sufficient. They are safe and reliable.
This is an idea whose time has arrived.
Great thought!
Nikkei 225 closed +1.59%.
Why didn’t the Biden Administration think of doing this? …. Bwahahahahahahahahah
Sounds good, but, after Trump and his smart intelligent group that know how to handle these things are gone and the next administration take over, what happens then if this is not codified and put into a treaty with teeth??? The last three administrations with all of their academia appointed grifters would not know how to handle a business transaction!!!! What then??? It will be a FUBAR!!!
This is why I back Trump a 1000% and push all other noise to the background.
The leftists wants us demoralized and confused. They want in a position of power and then incapacitated by fear, doubt, and uncertainty with whatever crap they cook up in their Turkish bath hangouts.
We sally forth into battle and fight for this country!
G-d bless the USA and G-d bless President Trump.
Amazing listen, thank you. Even the media person seemed smart
If we don’t get the new $ 12-15K Toyota Champ trucks here as part of the deal, I’m going to feel severely cheated.
Thank you Sundance, for explaining the US-Japan trade deal.
I’d love to see the Japanese investment money put into American companies that will produce
medications and medical devices,
electronic devices and communication lines,
anything to do with defense,
construction materials and construction tools (ex. backhoes),
trucks that are used to transport vital items (ex. trucks that transport food and construction material),
food and clean water,
anything used to produce food (ex. tractors), and
anything used to produce and transport water (ex. water pumps, water purification machinery, and water pipes).
And President Trump might put some of the investment money into schools that will train Americans to do vital jobs (ex. truck driver schools).
And don’t let foreigners buy any more US land or companies. Suppose a farmer or the CEO of a company is losing money, and is tempted to sell to China. Then use some of the investment money from Japan to either buy the farm or the company, or to help another American buy the farm or the company.
And the MSM will say nothing. No praise for this amazing man and his creative business skills.
It’s an amazing deal – a true creation of an international partnership for the mutual benefit of both countries. The brilliant essence is that tariffs are to promote investment – so they jumped right to the challenge and created a new mechanism for investment that will flourish. It’s genius!!
The money is to be invested in strategic industries and the American people will receive the financial profits processed back into our government to pay down debt, and create sovereign wealth funds and the like.
Commodore Perry would be proud. 🇺🇸