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cs<p>Trade dispatch from <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PlanetMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetMoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/nuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuts</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/1244093033/canada-tariffs-reciprocal-retaliatory-import-export-trade-war-nuts" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/11/1244093033/</span><span class="invisible">canada-tariffs-reciprocal-retaliatory-import-export-trade-war-nuts</span></a></p>
cs<p>Do trade deficits matter?</p><p>Well, not the way some seem to think. This this 23min article explains it pretty well. (April 9, 2025)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PlanetMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetMoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trade</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/TradeDeficit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TradeDeficit</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/1243652738/tariffs-trump-trade-deficit-white-house" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/09/1243652738/</span><span class="invisible">tariffs-trump-trade-deficit-white-house</span></a></p>
Jason Yip<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/PlanetMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetMoney</span></a> buys a mystery <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/diamond" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>diamond</span></a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892101/diamond-market-natural-lab-grown-gemological" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/03/26/1240892101/</span><span class="invisible">diamond-market-natural-lab-grown-gemological</span></a></p><p>Just checked on Alibaba, Ebay, and Amazon, wholesale lab-grown diamonds are super cheap!</p>
cs<p>Repost of a revisit—</p><p>Worst. Tariffs. Ever. (update) : Planet Money : NPR<br><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/PlanetMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetMoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SmootHawley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmootHawley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tariffs</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/12/11/1218506684/worst-tariffs-ever-update" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2024/12/11/1218506684/</span><span class="invisible">worst-tariffs-ever-update</span></a></p>
JL Johnson :veri_mast:<p>Also, not holiday related. Which was weird. </p><p>But on a hunch, I opened up my Twitter archive and searched my history for "shiny", and wouldn't you know it? Based on this search, it's likely I was on a Shiny Toy Guns kick around the holidays 2009-2010. 🤯 🤯 🤯 </p><p>Too bad my P$ RC TU friends really drifted apart. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@aimeesblog" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aimeesblog</span></a></span> pops up from time to time, and I see <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://techhub.social/@engineer27" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>engineer27</span></a></span> out there. Last I knew, Laura Conaway was a big shot at Maddow. Pretty much lost the rest of 'em. If anyone sees this, tell Kalun I says hi. </p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/ShinyToyGuns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShinyToyGuns</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/planetmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planetmoney</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/npr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>npr</span></a></p>