Big Tech and finance companies are telling H-1B employees to get to the US in under 24 hours
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This is a concerning trend. China was first in the game of "hide the youth unemployment data from the population". But now Trump has signaled intolerance for bad non-farm payroll reports that don't fit his narrative.
It is in keeping with the "post-truth" world. This used to be called "Orwellian" but that has fallen out of favor for some reason just as his 1949 science fiction classic 1984 is on the verge of becoming reality. He was a few decades off, that's all.
The series of laws, 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, 1970 Clean Air Cact, 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments, 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act, 1973 Endangered Species Act, 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act, are both a) Why Los Angeles has clear skies rather than brown smoggy skies, the bald eagle has recovered and is not endangered, and b) why manufacturing left the USA.
And why chemical companies won't expand production of toxic semiconductor chemicals to support the surge of fab construction since 2020. This is a looming challenge to actual operate the US fabs that are in the process of coming on line. Currently it looks like most chemicals will come from overseas. Mostly from Japan and Taiwan, which are not poisoning their environment, but are much more balanced than the post-1970s USA in that they permit manufacturing and don't strangle it with litigation.
Let me add one more thing. US high purity chemical manufacturers have not kept up their facilities and cannot meet 2nm-class specifications. They are operating worn out old facilities in need of replacement. Yet the ROI to invest in the US isn't there. Something has to change.
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Thus far India has not countered any of Trump's attempts to strong arm them into cooperating with his embargo on Russian energy. But there is plenty they can do.
For example they can ignore prior deals they made with the US and start buying not just Russian but also Iranian and Venezuelan oil. Indian refineries can process heavy oil like Venezuelan.
India has a negative trade balance with the US in services:
https://economictimes.com/news/econ...lties-included-gtri/articleshow/121413435.cms
They can slap taxes on US e-commerce companies.
They can reset the clock back to when they just copied US medical drugs without licenses.
And so on. We will see what happens.
For example they can ignore prior deals they made with the US and start buying not just Russian but also Iranian and Venezuelan oil. Indian refineries can process heavy oil like Venezuelan.
India has a negative trade balance with the US in services:
https://economictimes.com/news/econ...lties-included-gtri/articleshow/121413435.cms
They can slap taxes on US e-commerce companies.
They can reset the clock back to when they just copied US medical drugs without licenses.
And so on. We will see what happens.
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And so can PRC, communists are just too obsessed with $$$$ to try to leverage it yet, but when they will do it, and they eventually inevitably will, then bye bye US stock market.
The White House press secretary corrected the statements about the $100,000 H-1B fee. It is a one-time fee, not an annual fee. That makes a huge difference, though I still think the proposed fee increase is a bad idea.