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Ron Vara. A renowned economist? Nope.
It's none other than Peter Navarro.
Peter Navarro, a trade adviser to President Trump, invented an expert named Ron Vara to justify his tariff policy. Navarro used the fictional expert in his books and cited him in interviews to support his views. In TrumpWorld it is all just a web of endless lies.
The episode is not likely to cause Navarro any grief with his boss, however. Donald Trump famously invented his own fictional spokesman, John Barron, in the 1980s. Internet wags have joked that perhaps Barron could offer some PR advice to the newly unmasked Vara.https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771396016/white-hou...Now that he's caught Navarro says it was all just a little 'inside joke'. Sure.
No. of Recommendations: 7
Ron Vara. A renowned economist? Nope.
It's none other than Peter Navarro.
Yep. Ron Vara is just an anagram of Navarro.
Kind of like Damn Lop Turd.
No. of Recommendations: 2
meanwhile in the winners-only MAGA race to stupid, jockeying w/penguin tariffs...there are now extra fees on american exports !
e.g., not sure it's limited to chinese ships, but if an empty one shows up willing to pay a decent price to americans and help balance trade, trump is charging port fees to leave.
https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/27969-pr...am guessing this genius idea came from early checkout charges at don's moldy bankrupt casinos where even the bottled water was off-color. junk fees fine, just let me out of this shi+h0le !
No. of Recommendations: 4
From the link [my bold]:
A series of new levies and restrictions proposed by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) on importers and exporters that use Chinese-made ships could deal a significant blow to US agriculture and transportation, according to an economic impact report commissioned by more than 30 industry groups.
Among the report’s findings: US wheat exports could decline by more than 60% and soybean exports by more than 40% if all the proposed actions were implemented.
The proposed penalties, intended to boost US shipbuilding, include fines of up to $1.5 million for each Chinese-made ship that enters a US port, up to $1 million per port call for Chinese operators and up to $1 million for operators with orders from Chinese shipyards, according to recent reporting by World-Grain. The USTR’s plan also would set minimum amounts that carriers must export on US-built, US-flagged vessels.
“Though well intentioned, this proposal threatens to impose significant costs on US grain and oilseed exporters and erode America’s competitiveness in the international market,” said Mike Seyfert, president and CEO of the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), one of the report’s sponsors. “If enacted, this proposal would effectively eliminate half of the global bulk fleet that we need to export almost one-third of grains and oilseeds that are produced in America.”
