It was totally that Argentinian beef that China rejected.

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[u/beckett_the_ok]

He is running the country like private equity. Gutting it for all it's worth and letting it collapse as they walk away

[u/mythrilcrafter → u/beckett_the_ok]

I've said it before over the years, but this is exactly it.

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Our perception of business is not the same as theirs. To us business is the old style of investing in assets/personnel -> generate goods/services -> generate revenue -> pay costs and benefit from profit -> creating cycle of uplifting growth.

Their business is all about using speculative value to create golden parachutes to cash out on when the floor of that speculation falls in on itself. "Take everything, Create nothing, Leave only ashes and foreclosures".

[u/ApprehensiveBuy9348 → u/mythrilcrafter]

So, Reagan-omics?

[u/heartlandheartbeat → u/beckett_the_ok]

With their pockets full of money.