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> Arguably, China is subsidizing everything with a low currency
Not really. "Subsidizing everything" is an oxymoron, if you subsidize some production it must be at the expense of other production that is providing the subsidies.
> It may cancel out (or maybe more than cancel out) those tariffs.
The opposite is true, tariffs reduce demand for Chinese products and thus for Chinese currency, which leads to lower yuan.
They subsidize manufacturing of certain specific industries, EV cars being one, at the cost of domestic consumption. Basically they steal Chinese people's savings and use it to give the rest of the world cheap cars.
> Basically they steal Chinese people's savings and use it to give the rest of the world cheap cars.
One of the fundamental equations of macroeconomics: savings == investment
The high speed of Chinese industrialization is made possible by the high level of savings which are fueled into investments, and that doesn't leave much room for subsidies.
Moreover, even if subsidies do exist, they can be structured in a way that maximizes the bang for the buck of investments and in that light, they assure max productivity - that's not "stealing people's savings" - that's utilizing them in the best way possible for their real purpose: investment.
I don't know why so many people without basic understanding of economics imagine themselves to be experts in it. Yes, mainstream economics is a mess but thinking that you'd fix it with a few shortcuts is hubris.
This is a non-issue if your files are stored in a partition separate from your OS, and is infeasible otherwise.
* If you have a separate partition, you can replace your OS and your file remain untouched.
* If you don't have a separate partition, your OS and your files will be replaced by the Linux installation. The only way to preserve your files is to copy to some external media before installation. Even if the Linux installer could retain files while reformatting a partition (which might be technically feasible), it would have no way of knowing which files to retain: the user could easily keep important files in arbitrary directories, not just in their designated C:\User\Patrick directory, and they would be understandably irate if the installer promised to keep files but didn't. To say nothing of adding complications of copying files that Windows has pushed to OneDrive.
> This is a non-issue if your files are stored in a partition separate from your OS, and is infeasible otherwise.
That is one of the biggest ifs of 2026. I don't think any major PC laptop vendor has ever sold consumer laptops with anything but one-big-partition layout. For the average user, their files are not stored in any partition, they are stored "right there on my desktop, with a separate folder for photos and bills"
EFI/ESP and a restore partition have been standard or at least common for a decade. Restore partition might be big enough to install to… my Linux system partition is only 30GB.
But yes, been using a /data partition since it was called D:\ under DOS.
What files? Where would the files be originally for this to be a concern? I’ve switched OS many times but I don’t think I’ve ever thought about moving any files.
The window-dressing is great. You get the votes from the renters because you are doing ”something”, and you get the votes from the landlords because property values remain high
The stock market as always been about whatever is the fad in the short term, and whatever produces value in the long term. Today AI is the fad, but investors who care about fundamentals have always cared about pleasing customers because that is where the real value has always come from. (though be careful - not all customers are worth having, some wannabe customers should not be pleased)
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