The corruption is the plan. The tariffs are the boot on everyone's neck. Carve outs based on friend, foe, and bribes adjust the pressure. This will be on-going and capricious.
Wasn’t Howard Lutnick on TV recently explicitly saying they wanted to bring iPhone assembly here? How is one to understand the union of these two perspectives?
Howard Lutnick got pulled from the TV sidelines over stuff like this apparently. Bessent is running the show now which is probably why they’re actually responding to the bond market punching them in the face this week
He definitely blinked. Also illegal immigrants who work in hotels and on farms won’t be deported. Weird.
Perhaps the task of rewriting history needs to start right away.
The corruption is the plan. The tariffs are the boot on everyone's neck. Carve outs based on friend, foe, and bribes adjust the pressure. This will be on-going and capricious.
Wasn’t Howard Lutnick on TV recently explicitly saying they wanted to bring iPhone assembly here? How is one to understand the union of these two perspectives?
https://fortune.com/2025/04/07/howard-lutnick-iphones-americ...
Howard Lutnick got pulled from the TV sidelines over stuff like this apparently. Bessent is running the show now which is probably why they’re actually responding to the bond market punching them in the face this week
> How is one to understand the union of these two perspectives?
Only one perspective actually matters right now, and it's notoriously mercurial.
Administration officials often have about as much knowledge of what's to come as we do.