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Can you see what I see?
The news is overfed with Trump stories. He has done bad stuff that no one else would get away with.MoKjo, Wayne are you saying that regardless of competency, regardless of ethics, regardless of nepotism and regardless of obvious conflicts of interest Donald Trump is untouchable as President ?
Taking it to the obvious conclusion Donald Trump could walk down 5th Avenue and shoot someone and nothing would happen. Fair comment ?
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html
is going to pass
So whay you are say is that you are channelling Cathy Newman?MoKjo, Wayne are you saying that....
That remains to be seen. Good on him if he does.
Interesting to see if the relatively small amount of steel China sells into the USA, will be be replaced by the same stuff, but in the form of e.g. cheap white goods with increased profit margins :- putting tariffs on import steel will presumably raise the cost of production in the U$ofA .
Depends where you get it from.Chinese steel is absolute shyte anyway.
The difference when you work proper stuff is huge.
Chinese steel is absolute shyte anyway.
The difference when you work proper stuff is huge.
Personally I wouldn't want to build my foundation with Chinese imported steel.
But if it's for a client... well, I supposed there's a few pieces of paper saying it's to Australian standard soooo your Honour... who am I to question other people's authority
But yea, for an average house the cost of reinforcement is about $4K to $5K... which is practically nothing really. Might as well go for quality you can trust... and supporting a couple of local duopoly for their hard lobbying work.
Is there any special requirement for the steel to make horse shoes?Sticking on the bottom of a horses foot for six weeks shows you a lot about the quality of the steel.
Just about everything out of China is dodgy...we all know it, they know it, every Oz business that has gone down because of price point knows it.
You probably could use SS, if you found the right forgeable alloy, but their really is no benefit in doing so. There us a cost-workability-benefit equation.Is there any special requirement for the steel to make horse shoes?
Why don't you use stainless steel?
Trump administration's trade war claims first Australian victim
The perils of trusting Trump.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-05/trump-said-australia-would-be-exempt-from-tariffs/9512612
Changes our world forever’: Paul Keating warns of breakdown in US-China relations
FORMER Prime Minister Paul Keating has revealed what he sees as the biggest threat to Australia’s future.
Frank Chung@franks_chung
news.com.auNOVEMBER 15, 20171:59PM
Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating speaking at the CEDA annual dinner in Sydney on Tuesday 14 November 2017. Picture: David Moir/AAPSource:AAP
FORMER Prime Minister Paul Keating has warned that the biggest threat to Australia is a breakdown in co-operation between the US and China in the coming decades.
Speaking at the annual Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) dinner on Tuesday, Mr Keating predicted a coming “bifurcation between the west and the east” and the decline of supranational bodies such as the European Union.
“The Chinese believe in globalisation but they don’t believe in globalism,” Mr Keating told a packed crowd at Sydney’s Hyatt Regency. “They don’t believe in a block strategic structure run out of the Atlantic.
“We’re now going to a bifurcated world where global governance is going to be perhaps much more about the nation state and its representation in places like the United Nations, but not going to be [about] bindings of states in alliances of the kind the US has had in the past.”
Mr Keating said the result would be a “much more identifiable world of independent nation states of big power rivalries of a kind we last saw at the end of the 19th century”.
“That’s why the relationship between the US and China is so important here, and frankly the relationship between Russia and Europe.”
A breakdown in co-operation between the US and China “changes our world forever”, he said, warning Australia must “do all we can to resist such an impasse” and adding that the strong relationship between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was “encouraging”.
“America will remain our security alliance partner, the world’s predominant military power and a great democracy to which we are philosophically akin, but we are increasingly part of a regional economy based on China,” he said.
“There are increasing signs that the inevitable strategic competition between these two nations risks spilling into trade, investment and technological competition as well as issues of global economic governance.
“We should have no interest whatsoever in publicly or privately encouraging either America or China down the paths of crude economic nationalism. A mercantilist path where investment in each others’ economy is resisted, or where trade is thought of as wins and losses, where agreed global rules can be suspended, is of no use to us.”
Highlighting the major economic reforms of the ‘80s and ‘90s, Mr Keating said the next big opportunity for Australia lay in the realm of technology and artificial intelligence, but warned the country risked sliding into gradual decline without visionary thinking.
He slammed the nation’s two peak business lobby groups, describing the Business Council of Australia’s calls for a company tax cuts as “dull” and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry as a “national menace” for its attacks on penalty rates.
“Reform in Australia can’t be these simple notions,” he said. “The dullness of it. ‘You cut the company tax rate and the Holy Grail arrives.’ Or the whingeing from the ACCIs of this world about penalty rates when the reality of static wages growth stares us in the face.”
Mr Keating pointed to new technologies like Airbnb and Uber as the “tip of a big iceberg”. “We can see the first big phase of this shift with consumers responding directly to the smorgasbord of things on offer at their fingertips, and as we can see information lowers prices,” he said.
“The wider phase where even larger gains will be had is in the heavily government influenced areas of health, education, aged care and human services. Can you imagine what is available to us in terms of productivity and improvement with the digitisation of these huge areas of the economy?
“These are the reform horizons we should be concentrating on now, not the dross handed down by the Business Council or the Financial Review.”
But Mr Keating warned changes of the kind required were “not going to drop from any department”.
“You won’t find these falling from a Treasury printer, because of their essence they require imagination,” he said. “Imagination was a principal tool in underwriting the ‘80s and ‘90s changes. If you can’t imagine it you’re sure as hell never going to see it.”
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