Pre-meeting conversation about tariffs and new chairs
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The county’s agenda for Planning Commission, Apr 17, 2025
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Yeah.
Do I know you? I'm
sorry? Yeah, it's the issue with tariffs. You know, tariffs should be it needs to
be more long standing.
Yeah, and go meet with them. Or is Tim and Mike here?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
on the right
now.
Waffling back and forth. Oh my gosh. You have to rethink your whole supply chain and decision changes.
Especially when it's some of the subordinate things not gonna put away.
Right. And stick with it. Let the markets adjust to it.
Well, it's his way of negotiating. Yeah. Say I'm a bad guy, now I'm a nicer guy. Yeah. Not as bad a guy. Good cut, bad cop. Bad cop, good cup. All that being said, I wish Jerome Powell would make some recognition.
All at
higher rates. Right.
They got new chairs in here?
Yeah, they got them that's
why
they're upset.
Well, he really does have a goal mandate. You have to keep your inflation low but at the same time.
I don't think he ever raised the rates high enough to kill the nucleus. That I agree.
Do I need to get started?
And didn't do it soon enough.
But COVID transitory inflation, how can you pr print forty percent of the money in circulation into transitory and then expect the inflation to be transitory?
He's on all kinds of podcasts. One of those guys are every one of those versions
of the podcast. Yep. I'm ready for instance price one.
Right.