Die Grafik enthält viel Interessantes, u.a. die Kosten der 256GB mit knapp $21 . Hier scheint mir die direkte Gewinnspanne am Größten zu sein, denn #Apple reicht die Speicherkosten zur Zeit weiter mit einem Aufschlag von über 1000% .
Im Grunde sollten die zusätzlichen Zölle bei manchen Bauteilen vernachlässigbar sein. Andererseits schreibt das Wall Street Journal #WSJ rchtigerweise: "... you don’t become a trillion-dollar gadget company by charging for things at cost."
@LinuxAndYarn @GossiTheDog I've to applaud #WSJ for showing how much #Apple is shafting #consumers with overpriced #parts, because even if the #battery had only 10% tariff there's no reason for a #replacement part to cost more than $50.
Poll us now.
Majority of Americans uneasy over Trump’s economic plan
In a survey a published by the Wall Street Journal on Friday, just a quarter of people said they approve of Trump’s handling of the economy during his first 100 days in office.
The survey was conducted prior to Trump’s announcement of a 10-percent base tax on all goods coming into the U.S. earlier this week.
Stocks Suffer Record Two-Day Wipeout
$6.6 Trillion
Based on Friday's close, that's how much value the U.S. stock market shed in the past two sessions, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
The figure represents a new record. The biggest two-day pullback before this week was during the Covid-19 market, when $4.4 trillion of stock-market value evaporated in the two days ending March 12, 2020.
#paywall? #Destroyer #Trump #tariffs #WSJ #economy #stocks #WallSt #DOW #press
And this is the Wall Street Journal, a conservative newspaper. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-tariffs-trade-war-04-04-2025/card/by-the-numbers-how-bad-was-this-week-in-the-stock-market--LQVAksseINNckogkXh5e
https://youtube.com/shorts/R9ER0RuJUaM
If you're wondering why the pundit class and the mainstream media organizations that employ them have been so tepid in their criticism of Trump, so unwilling to name the fascist beast and draw the logical conclusions the regime's actions imply, perhaps it's because they know they've been complicit in this fascist nightmare? As Joan Westenberg notes in this brilliant March 15th drag out piece, the normalization of the fascist ideology the Trump regime is running on now has many fathers in American society, and not all of them are folks who'd want to be known as supporters of MAGA fascism; but that's precisely the role they've served, for personal gain:
https://www.theindex.media/the-pundit-class-played-devils-advocate-now-the-devils-at-the-door/
The Pundit Class Played Devil’s Advocate. Now the Devil’s at the Door.
"A revolving door of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post columnists made a career of platforming people who—either blatantly or through implication—argued that transgender people shouldn't exist. That democracy had "gone too far." They raged against "wokeism" because they couldn’t conceive of a world where it wouldn’t prevail. They bemoaned "cancel culture" not because they cared about free speech, but because they mistakenly believed the right-wing ideologues they dined with had been cast out for good.
In their intellectual stupor, they decided that the forces of social change were so overpowering and unstoppable that the world needed a voice to speak up against them in an infernal balancing act. And it felt daring, didn't it? To be the literary equivalent of the Cool Girl—not like those Other Girls who care about freedom, equity, history, and common sense.
They dressed themselves up as the beatniks of cultural commentary. They convinced themselves of their "underground" status. They basked in institutional protection, indulging in a self-congratulatory circle-jerk of mock dissent where the stakes were always someone else's problem. They positioned themselves as lone voices against an imagined tide of unthinking dogma, pretending that they were fighting against orthodoxy when, in reality, they were just reinforcing the status quo with a hipster filter. They weren't holding truth to power. They were selling a brand: rebellion without responsibility, provocation without principle, and the posture of dissent with none of the burden of consequence.
They dined on the aesthetic of courage without ever taking a risk. And why not? The market for disaffected liberals playing footsie with fascists was lucrative and full of opportunities for highbrow grift."
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https://www.europesays.com/1954867/ PM Mitsotakis Visits Israel for Talks on Defense, Energy, and Stability #Climate #Culture #Energy #EnglishVima #Finance #NewsInEnglish #Opinions #Politics #science #society #tourism #TovimaEnglish #TovimaEnglishEdition #tovima.com #wsj
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#WSJ Democratic Senator Explains What Dems Are Doing Wrong | WSJDemocratic Senator Explains What Dems Are Doing Wrong | WSJ
Democratic Senator Explains What Dems Are Doing Wrong | WSJ President Donald Trump won Arizona in November, but Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego also captured the state. The Wall Street Journal sat down with him to learn how he held on to voters Kamala Harris lost, and where the party goes from here. Gallego also discusses what voters care about…
#WSJ Inside the 48-Hour El Salvador Deportation Scramble | WSJInside the 48-Hour El Salvador Deportation Scramble | WSJ
Inside the 48-Hour El Salvador Deportation Scramble | WSJ The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege” and refusing to turn over information about the ICE deportation flights that sent alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Agua to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. First-hand accounts, along with analysis of court…
"Job Seekers Hit Wall of Salary Deflation
The salary bump that people who switch jobs used to command has vanished"
By Katherine Bindley and Lynn Cook
March 16, 2025 9:00 pm ET
"It used to pay to switch jobs. Now it doesn’t.
..."
(LinkedIn around paywall)
#WSJ A Day at the ‘Anti-Woke’ University Funded by Billionaire Trump Backers | WSJA Day at the ‘Anti-Woke’ University Funded by Billionaire Trump Backers | WSJ
A Day at the 'Anti-Woke' University Funded by Billionaire Trump Backers | WSJ The University of Austin (UATX) is America’s newest, and arguably most controversial higher education institution. Founded by a group of academics, entrepreneurs and intellectuals, including venture capitalist Joe Lonsdale who donated…
#WSJ A Syrian Father’s 12-Year Search for His Missing SonA Syrian Father’s 12-Year Search for His Missing Son
A Syrian Father’s 12-Year Search for His Missing Son An online video of Syrian prisoners liberated after the Assad regime’s fall offers a desperate father a clue: His son may still be alive. #Syria #Assad #Shorts from The Wall Street Journal Here's the YouTube video for this article Here's the YouTube video for this article
