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Onka's avatar

Buenísimo poder escuchar y leer el pod cast, porque a veces por ruido solo se puede leer. Segundo: gracias por ir al punto del mito del valor de los productos en este presente globalizado. Y tercero, por la claridad de quienes son los afectados directos en la cadena de valor. John Saxe Fernández llama omnicida a esta etapa del capitalismo.

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Phil DuPuis's avatar

Interesting perspective. What alternative means are available to balance trade? Some of these imbalances are obviously unfair. I’ve been challenged by subsidies on major equipment on DBOOM transit projects. Hard to over come a lower price on Bombardier trains if your Alstom or another, when that subsidy can be 10% to 15%. What’s fair about that?

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Sal Mikel's avatar

I believe that the problem you describe falls under strategic tariffs, very similar to the example about the semiconductor industry, using a scalpel instead of a jackhammer. Unfortunately, blanket tariffs generate a lot of examples similar to “bananas” where the economy and all of us will pay the price of the economic value destruction.

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