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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Lol, Musk buys steel from the Europeans. No wonder he’s mad at Navarro. <br><br></span><a href="https://teslanorth.com/2023/10/12/tesla-taps-spacex-supplier-for-cybertruck-stainless-steel/" target="_blank"><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:#F8F8F8'>https://teslanorth.com/2023/10/12/tesla-taps-spacex-supplier-for-cybertruck-stainless-steel/</span></a><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><br>Someone should tell DJT he has limited leverage:<br><br><a href="https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/activity-growth/exposure-chinese-economy-us-tariff-hike">https://www.caixabankresearch.com/en/economics-markets/activity-growth/exposure-chinese-economy-us-tariff-hike</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm <jofr@cas-group.net><br><b>Date: </b>Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] And now for something different: what can we do about the consumer taxes aka tariff damages incoming<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>It is all going downhill from here. Everything well get a least twice as expensive. People could join the "Hands Off" protests against the orange guy in the White House, but I doubt it will have an effect. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>-J.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>-------- Original message --------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>From: Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore@gmail.com> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Date: 4/9/25 5:52 PM (GMT+01:00) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'>Subject: [FRIAM] And now for something different: what can we do about the consumer taxes aka tariff damages incoming <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friam: A oddly specific person had tantrum. And prices (for now, but he's got the attention span of a dying mayfly) on...everything is looking to get stupid: electronics to shirts and basically everything<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Ok well that's already awful.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Question: <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>What the hell can we do? Legal Eagle has pointed out the consumer tax hike (tarrifs) are on legally shaky ground.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Would enough people we know smashing emails phones or what ever help get pressuure on anyone that'll listen including courts to revert them? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>(aka: Friam: instead of me stewing around and getting angry at the void what reps to spam to try to get this fiasco reversed)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>