Conrad Black calling himself a moderate observer. Yah right. The man wrote a 344 page love note to Trump.
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Apparently it's all a matter of testosterone. He should get together with SecWar.
It sounds like they are trying to recreate Sparta. The US needs more manly men.
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It's OK as long as they don't get any "economic girly girls".
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If that’s the case, someone should brief them on how things turned out for them against the Persians the last time the Spartans tried.
Oh this should be good. Someone must have told him our currency value favours exports from Canada and is likely a factor in some business relocating here to retain access to world export markets. Does he not realize the best driver of our currency appreciating is a resource boom, to a large extent with the U.S. as a buyer? Not sure that jives with his trade deficit threats.
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So he's going to drop the value of the USD to match the CAD?
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Well, he can always ask the Treasury to buy massive amounts of Canadian dollars. 
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Wasn't he talking about a couple weeks ago of decoupling the US dollar from oil? Essentially ending the petro dollar. Cause that would crash the US dollar pretty hardWell, he can always ask the Treasury to buy massive amounts of Canadian dollars.
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Only if he cuts US interest rates and a 1/4 cut would do minimal to this issue
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So... he wants to make stuff more affordable in Canada, and the price of everything in the US to skyrocket?
Not sure how this is going to fix his other "grievances" with us, because this will just make those even worse.
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Actually, I find them closer to these uniforms, of the Galactic Empire:
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Who knew that two evil empires could have similar uniforms?
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Who knew that two evil empires could have similar uniforms?
Meh, could be out one any of a bunch of sci fi.
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AI strikes again.
Star Wars, Star Trek, Starship Troopers, and the Third Reich which 2 of the former already reference heavily from.
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The US has a number of levers they could pull. The nuclear option would be announcing the cancelation of the US-Canada Tax Convention. All hypothetical of course but it would absolutely screw over all our pension plans and the boomers who invest heavily in the US stock market. It would also screw the US a bit but would hammer us way more.
US dollar has actually decreased in value 10% since Trump took office. This helps American exports and manufacturing which is a stated aim of this administration.
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I saw this movie once. It didn’t work out well for the guys in that uniform.
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Given our trade relationship though, dollar parity would hurt the US more then it would hurt us. it would actually cost them about 156 billion more to trade with us. if you take off fees, tax etc, thats about 130ish billion more going into our economy to our benefit.
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It would benefit some sectors. It would absolutely crush others, including manufacturing and heavy industry leading to a loss of jobs, loss of corporate profits and lower exports.
Vacations to Florida would be cheaper though!