Saturday, September 22, 2018

One MILLION jobs...

...a nice round number.  This is analogous to me threatening a restaurant owner that I will not eat all the meals his current kitchen and his as yet unopened future restaurants can produce in perpetuity because we must discuss the meat/pasta ratio in his spahghetti.

Threatening imaginary numbers is not really the effective and professional response one would like to hear from the middle kingdom. 

"Alibaba’s founder and chairman Jack Ma says the Chinese mega e-commerce company no longer has plans to create 1 million jobs in the US, citing the ongoing trade conflict as the reason Alibaba is retracting its promise to Donald Trump. A new round of tariffs between the US and China will make mutual trade more difficult.