Trade Wars

Yuan Spikes To 6-Month Highs After Mnuchin's US-China Trade Comments

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...-highs-after-mnuchins-us-china-trade-comments

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Forcing people to work less will result in a decreased capacity to meet their needs ie the destruction of value rather than the enhancement of it.
 
mmm....shiney! said:
Forcing people to work less will result in a decreased capacity to meet their needs ie the destruction of value rather than the enhancement of it.
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The people from China told me that the working in Singapore is a lot more stressful as compared to China so there must be a lot of slack - people are probably only working half the time in office, playing games on their smartphones, surfing the Internet, since work in Singapore is actually not that intense if you just look at the number of people from Singapore posting on forums all day long. Of course, I'm talking in relative terms, as compared to say work in HK, Korea and Japan which is more stressful than Singapore.
 
So what you’re saying is that the workers are overpaid?

If that’s the case cutting wages would be a positive move then as it would significantly reduce the cost of production and drive down the price of consumer goods.
 
mmm....shiney! said:
So what you’re saying is that the workers are overpaid?

If that’s the case cutting wages would be a positive move then as it would significantly reduce the cost of production and drive down the price of consumer goods.
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Cutting wages won't work either. The cost of many basic necessities such as grocery in China is not cheap, like milk, chicken, eggs and meat is either equal or often higher than in Singapore, and Singapore more expensive than Australia and many European countries.
 
Living in Australia, the US and the EU, you may not realise it, but the most important goods is not iPhones and plastic consumer goods and crap, but basic grocery, contaminated fish, meats, vegetables, fruits and infant formula milk. Yes, I forgot, clean water.
 
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sgbuyer said:
Cutting wages won't work either. The cost of many basic necessities such as grocery in China is not cheap, like milk, chicken, eggs and meat is either equal or often higher than in Singapore, and Singapore more expensive than Australia and many European countries.
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China has the economy of SCALE, so the unit costs would likely to be lower when compared
 
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https://popularresistance.org/the-t...X-pF5PcvwSAAy9NC_93qqnED590AnLky-xQCCSdqEvaJU
 
Looks like the markets (thought very late) are starting to get the hint that these trade/currency wars are not going away.

The general Stock market is going to tank except for gold stocks which will explode higher as everyone moves in.
 
Just remember this is nothing but the first shots across the bow and the worse is still to come.

Be ready to move assets and make some real money and a killing when opportunities arise.
 
One of the US component I'm buying is raising price by 5% in SGD. Not a lot since the component itself already costs 3-4 times the cost of Chinese equivalent brands but nonetheless interesting because the tariff is 10% so it will mean the actual material cost is less than 50% of the retail price. Furthermore, SGD has weakened against USD, which will mean the material cost is probably only 25-30% of the retail price. There's a lot of markup in the first place so 10% tariffs or even 25% can be absorbed without significant issues.

The real impact will come if tariffs are raised to like 50% or more.
 
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