In Europe Tesla isn’t even #1 on EV anymore, they have been surpassed by VAG aka Volkswagen Group.
Depending on how you compare, they are probably a little bit more expensive, but also higher quality.

True it was before the NEW tariffs were announced, but a lot of goods from China had tariffs before Trump increased them on April 2nd.

It’s really sad, but UK is a lot like USA politically. UK first alone or USA first alone. There’s not really that much difference.
Brexit or MAGA Both represent an idea of exceptionalism about themselves, and disregard for emigrants and minorities.

USA is worse, but the principle is the same.

Thanks, he is usually pretty good, but I haven’t seen that one.

For sure USA will lose exports in a very profitable market.

I will be very surprised if China can’t make their own competitive AI chips soon.
Huawei and SMIC are steaming ahead on developing better chips as much as ever despite the sanctions.
USA is sorely mistaken if they think they still have the upper hand against China. USA is also losing soft power fast with old allies, and this has already resulted in ASML opening office in China again.
Probably because China has figured out the basics of how to make EUV themselves, so it’s only a matter of time before ASML becomes irrelevant in China, Unless they ignore American demands of sanctioning China completely, terms which demand ASML can’t even maintain already delivered equipment!

We are already seeing clear signs of Europe ignoring American demands, and USA losing their soft power. Because they are alienating allies.

And Trump weakening USA in that regard is emboldening China to fight back. Denying USA access to crucial rare earth minerals, That ultimately will result in American EV products to become inferior on both engines and batteries.

Denying China chips will slow them down intermittently, but it will accelerate their efforts to catch up on both production and design of their own chips, ultimately making China more independent.

It’s funny how China is always blamed for not buying American products, and when they do, USA is sanctioning them to try to slow them down. 😋

USA is teaching China that they can’t rely on others especially USA, they need complete technological independence, and they need to be able to deal with USA from a postion of strength. The way Trump is acting will sour the relations for decades.

Oh boy this one will confuse him to no end. 😋
It will make his 2 brain cells collide for hours.

We do not deal with terrorists.
And we don’t deal with toddlers either.

Maybe not, but when the dollar declines, everything else is up relatively. so the losses on dollars are recouped in increase in native and other currencies for those countries.
Unstable markets are generally unhealthy for everybody, but obviously a declining US economy is worst for USA.
Trump actually want the dollar to decline, he thinks USA can export more and import less, and he is getting what he asks for. But it will mostly be import less, and not so much export more.

The US trade war (tariffs) are way more serious than the declining dollar.
Everybody else is already increasing activities around USA.
If the dollar remains stable it doesn’t make a hoot of a difference to change our reserve currency to something else for anybody else but USA.
For Europe to change it to Euro would be HUGELY beneficial. For everybody else it doesn’t matter.

If Saudi Arabia sell oil for Euro instead of USD to Europe that’s a HUGE advantage for Europe.
If they sell to other countries for Euro instead of USD, it makes no difference for either party.
But USA will in both cases have to buy their own dollars back, and that will make the dollar fall.

Do we (the rest of the “free” world) want this? No!
Did we ask for this? No!
Did we cause this? No!

Did USA cause this? Yes.

Nah we are just selling off USD we don’t need anyway, in exchange for other currencies that have better value to us.
The USD has already dropped 10% to the Euro since Trump became president. That’s the lowest since 2021!

I never claimed it wouldn’t affect the world, only that it wouldn’t be a problem, it just means selling off USD to buy other currencies to trade with instead, that is obviously not a problem. Only USA will be affected negatively by their currency being sold and losing value. If this happens fast the USD will plummet. And that will probably mean vastly increased interest rates and inflation in USA.

What is sick is you keeping spreading misinformation.

we must do this to protect our brand

They removed it because it was factually false. Not just “to protect the brand”.

whose ultimate executive is the government

That doesn’t change the fact that the “documentary” was factually wrong and decidedly misleading. It was not removed due to political pressure, it was widely criticized by economists too. The whole thing was essentially libel, and could have been legally removed if they hadn’t done so themselves. This insinuation of conspiracy is disgusting!!

I have known about Kryolit since the 70’s, and it was NEVER a golden business, and already back then only marginally profitable, with considerations to shut it down.

Meaning this all dates back to before Greenland became Autonomous in 1979. If Kryolit had been found anywhere else in Denmark, it wouldn’t have been treated differently.
The difference today is that Greenland and Faroe Islands have way more self determination than any other part of Denmark.

That documentary is complete bullshit. It misrepresents just about everything about the situation, and idiotically claims revenue is the same as profits.

https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grønlands_hvide_guld

Translated quote:

DR launched an internal investigation into the documentary’s creation process. As a result of the investigation, the institution decided on 19 February 2025 to completely withdraw the film

Original:

DR iværksatte en intern undersøgelse af dokumentarens tilblivelsesproces. Som et resultat af undersøgelsen besluttede institutionen den 19. februar 2025 helt at trække filmen tilbage

My comment is not based on opinion polls. But on the political negotiations as they have been represented.

like a fucking toxic relationship with an abuser, holy shit.

I’m not aware of any other example where a territory with an original population is treated with more respect and more reasonably than Denmark is doing with Greenland, including having representation in the Danish parlament. I’m all for that. And Greenland can have independence, but when they want us to keep paying after that, how is that reasonable?

The USD is the most used reserve currency, that will probably remain the case for a while yet, but it will probably decrease, and other currencies will be used more.
That’s not a problem for the world, only for USA. As it will make it necessary to print less money, and/or increase interest rates to stave off inflation. This will of course make USA a bit poorer than it would have been otherwise.
How dramatic the effect will be obviously depends on the speed this will happen at. I think it will be slow, so not very dramatic.

But I don’t think Trump understands the privilege it has been for USA to have the world leading reserve currency.

I’d say EU is the best spot. But I may be biased. But IMO EU stands for reliability economically, and in political direction, and in respect for its citizens and in international relations.

With China we have seen the system can make harmful interference as we saw with Jack Ma. So for me China is not an option either. It’s actually worse than USA, although not by much.

It’s a weird world we are living in, I don’t understand how this works, but it’s cool. 👍

https://www.cowi.com/news-and-press/news/2023/comparing-co2-emissions-from-different-energy-sources/

Natural gas: 290-930 g CO2e/kWh
Coal: 740-1689 g CO2e/kWh.

So coal is twice as bad on CO2 per kW compared to natural gas. Apart from poluting way more in particles and heavy metals, that cause cancer and respiratory diseases.

Repeat after me: “Coal is so BAD basically EVERYTHING else is better.”
Now try to remember it too.

The expansion of electricity in UK is based on Nuclear and wind turbines. So even if you compare heat generated by electricity compared to heat generated directly from coal. Electricity comes out ahead. And as the sources are moved more and more towards renewables, this will only get better over time.

“This suggests foreigners have been and are continuing to sell U.S. stocks and sending their money elsewhere,”

I just know we did, and frankly I don’t understand those that don’t?