Going up.

> Right, because the suppliers who are buying from Nvidia and paying the higher prices absolutely are just going to eat the delta and leave their inflated prices the same to the end purchaser, reducing their own margins.

> You are high on something very potent.

I'm not some quack job that thinks tariffs are paid by China, and in almost all cases tariff taxes are passed on to consumers, but this is one rare area where I'm not so sure. I think most of these costs will be passed on to scalpers, and those scalpers will have a hard time raising their prices any more than they already have. There are some companies finding ways to get Nvidia cards to consumers at or near MSRP, and the tariffs will directly make these cards more expensive, but I don't think that is what

I believe companies can set different MSRPs for different countries and I didn't see anything in the article that mentioned if these price hikes were specific to the U.S. or if they're worldwide.

Either way, an interesting side-effect of tariffs is that companies may choose to sell more inventory in other countries where they can make higher margin per unit. If they choose to do so, that would mean a reduction in U.S. supply, which means that retailers and scalpers could potentially justify even higher p

See, trump was right after all; other countries do pay the tariffs. But of course they aren't paying them to the US government.

Tariffs are paid by the consumer. Companies pass along any tariff costs, not add them to their bottom line.

OK, Pollynna.

Who couldn't be bothered to look up what a tariff was before voting for a guy with 34 felony convictions, 26 credible rape accusations, who hands out classified documents at his golf course like party favors.

If I had one wish to the Almighty I would ask for everyone on the planet to be given an extra 100 IQ points and for their kids to keep those IQ points. This thing where people cannot locate and process legitimate and real information is going to doom us all.

The United States is 10% manufacturing, nearly $3T/yr, 13 million people employed, we make more energy than we use and grow more food than we eat. What don't we make here or make enough of that we should?

Do note I am not saying that answer is nothing, I can think of quite a few things but you have to justify each of those and explain how a tariff helps it.

Also the premise that autarky is simply not possible, like at all must be accepted or we are just in different realities.

First things first automation took 70% of the manufacturing jobs. Only 30% of them were lost overseas.

Next we took the national debt and our military strength and used that to artificially prop up the dollar making it the world's reserve currency.

This means an American dollar can buy a lot more imports than it really should be able to.

This means we get to bring in trillions of dollars worth of consumer goods and raw materials and heavy machinery for a fraction of the price and use those goods to

> The long term multi-decade damage of moving all manufacturing outside the country while everyone buys trinkets for pennies from China can never be undone.

Which is exactly why it is pointless for someone to even try. Leave the factories in China, you won't change the situation now, you're just damaging yourself even more trying. And damaging everybody else as well.