Yes something like 2 months and they will be there.
Maybe the achievement is the collapse of the Russian federation?

you need to run consistent deficits to be a reserve currency

Yes and of course the advantage depends on how that is managed. If you don’t use it to invest, the advantage isn’t as great. But it creates a huge amount of surplus influx to the economy, that stimulates economic development.

For lane change it’s ok.

the view of some within the Trump administration that the reserve currency status of the dollar is more of a burden to the US economy than a blessing.

Obviously the Trump administration is dominated by economic morons.
I’m sure China and EU would gladly take that “burden” off USA. And while that makes the USD decline, it will increase inflation in USA, both because imports are more expensive, but also because American goods will be worth more on export markets and be more favorable to American companies to sell outside USA, again increasing prices in USA to compete with the more attractive export market. So the result is to either export, or sell at home at higher prices.

The selling off of USD will also increase interest rates, making it more expensive to pay interest on federal and other public debts.
Together with a less attractive home market this will cause investments to drop. We actually saw that already 2 days after the insane tariffs were announced, and they had only been in force for a few hours!!!

But yes I can see how it must be confusing to the morons in the Trump administration whether the reserve currency is more a burden than an advantage. Because everything is confusing to them, but somehow they still manage to always make the wrong decisions. If it was mere stupidity, it should be closer to 50/50!! So maybe something else is going on too?

True it was before the NEW tariffs were announced, but a lot of goods from China had tariffs before Trump increased them on April 2nd.

IDK about the US, but in this situation the Danes go to Ukraine to learn modern drone tactics.

It’s more like well done Ukraine. It’s the Ukrainians teaching the Danes.

That was exactly my thought too. 😋
But the Danes are going to Ukraine to learn, not the other way around.
And that makes much more sense.

Kudos on going against the trend, where everything is a matter of life and death.

Never herd of that before, but goddammit that’s some toxic shit.

Man you couldn’t make this shit up!!
The Republican are like XKCD, like there’s an XKCD for everything, there’s a Republican quote for every moronic thing imaginable.

Are you even aware of the amount of fentanyl that can fit in an imported car?
Obviously the point is to make American use good old American Fentanyl.

It’s really sad, but UK is a lot like USA politically. UK first alone or USA first alone. There’s not really that much difference.
Brexit or MAGA Both represent an idea of exceptionalism about themselves, and disregard for emigrants and minorities.

USA is worse, but the principle is the same.

You can disagree with it, but the DOT states that you need to maintain a minimum distance between you and the vehicle in front of you, in respect to reaction time.

As if everybody doesn’t already know that.
You can maintain distance for instance because you are standing still, or rolling slowly towards a cross with traffic. And see the distance to the car in front you despite it isn’t the only focus of attention. Also in bright conditions the blinker is not as visible as in darker conditions.

You should NEVER stop blinking before the turning maneuver is finished. 3 times blinking does that, and in fact should be illegal IMO. It makes drivers lazy about their blinkers. My own car has it, and I hate it. It’s a moronic feature.

If you stop blinking even before you started to turn, it’s very confusing. Did you change your mind, or do you just suck at signalling?

The place where you use it as an argument for not voting for Harris.

Sigh. Gaza genocide?

For fucks sake! How is that better with Trump? Trump doesn’t give a shit, and doesn’t even criticize Israel for that. It’s the most moronic argument there is, yet it’s still pushed?!

It doesn’t matter whether it’s justified for not

You need to justify it to yourself, that’s the point. Why would you think they are responsible to anybody else for their vote?

Thanks, he is usually pretty good, but I haven’t seen that one.

How was Harris a terrible option?
Or was it because she is a woman, and because of her color?

USA got what they deserved.

Yes Biden was maybe mediocre, but how does that justify not preventing a flaming fascist sociopath from taking the office? It wasn’t Biden that elected Trump, it was the Americans.
Blaming Biden for it is idiotic.

For sure USA will lose exports in a very profitable market.

I will be very surprised if China can’t make their own competitive AI chips soon.
Huawei and SMIC are steaming ahead on developing better chips as much as ever despite the sanctions.
USA is sorely mistaken if they think they still have the upper hand against China. USA is also losing soft power fast with old allies, and this has already resulted in ASML opening office in China again.
Probably because China has figured out the basics of how to make EUV themselves, so it’s only a matter of time before ASML becomes irrelevant in China, Unless they ignore American demands of sanctioning China completely, terms which demand ASML can’t even maintain already delivered equipment!

We are already seeing clear signs of Europe ignoring American demands, and USA losing their soft power. Because they are alienating allies.

And Trump weakening USA in that regard is emboldening China to fight back. Denying USA access to crucial rare earth minerals, That ultimately will result in American EV products to become inferior on both engines and batteries.

Denying China chips will slow them down intermittently, but it will accelerate their efforts to catch up on both production and design of their own chips, ultimately making China more independent.

It’s funny how China is always blamed for not buying American products, and when they do, USA is sanctioning them to try to slow them down. 😋

USA is teaching China that they can’t rely on others especially USA, they need complete technological independence, and they need to be able to deal with USA from a postion of strength. The way Trump is acting will sour the relations for decades.