Brilliant!!!

There are more details in this ZeroHedge article: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trump-exempts-computers-handsets-chips-reciprocal-tariff-blitz

Just noticed that earlier there was this BBC article: #941492

The world is healing.

The world is healing.

Living paycheck to paycheck means the funds from the one check are depleted by the time the next paycheck is received. For some, I suppose, they have part of their check go to retirement savings.

But the term generally refers to those where, if the next check doesn't come, life gets difficult. Fast.

These people don't have savings -- they live off their income, and have little-to-nothing to cover an emergency, nonetheless being able to get by for a while if the next check didn't come because of a layoff, or similar.

"Tether"-ed to the Titanic

Yes.

Unlike physical notes and coinage, Tether works just as well when you need 8,000 of them for a burger as $8 of them.

Though when that time comes, if a typical person can still justify the expenditure for a burger, I wouldn't know.

Firstly, this article is nearly a month old now. Though I wouldn't doubt that current numbers show little has improved on the spending front.

Secondly, everybody knows the saying: change is hard. But change is also expensive (in one form or another).

I know many of the actions (cuts) taken so-far have been spot-on based on my personal anecdotal evidence (i.e., from those with the most hatred towards "Elon Mussolini", which is what I've heard them refer to him as).

A reversal can be as simple as an agreement that in certain situations that two banks will adjust their ledgers accordingly, regardless of what the settlement network will permit.

Bank transfers are reversible, just not by powerless individuals.

Cash App, most frequently,

ever since Strike no longer supports debit card and to use my bank acct with them has the requirement that I authorize Plaid to harvest data from my checking account.