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Svend, O Captain! My Captain! (Walt Whitman for those not sure), regardless of my lucky punt at that £7 come Feb, you've proved yourself to be the absolute captain here and I'm a mere cat in your presence.

So lovely to have these conversations with you. I'm off to the cat's quarters right now (second on the left to the rats holding)

Steer the ship well my captain - I hear we've a few waves ahead.

What a golden response my captain! You've said everything I'm thinking, let alone aspire to.

Honestly Svend, I'm humble to be in your presence sir - such an absolute honour to hear such grounding and level thought when it comes to the "Right or Left" - there simply doesn't have to be either. Something I've waited for in response for a long time my friend. The grey field in the middle is the awesome soup we can all work from.

Sorry Svend, can't tell you what a lovely response that was mate. You've made my week. Not many have the ability to do that sir.

I've no idea what your knowledge of IPR (intellectual property rights) are Tim, but mine are vast and I don't want to belittle you in me saying that - I've traded my IPR globally for around 30 years now.

America are by far the worse company for IPR infringement, in my humble opinion of working with them on a daily basis. Second only to the UK. China, I'm yet to have a problem with. Australia and New Zealand are really bad!

Brazil are lovely by the way! 👍

Not sure how you feel about things current Svend but I'm loving the idea of nationalised services.

I've always being centre right in my approach to capitalism but the older I get, the more I realise those in a CEO role of a capitalist enterprise have forgotten the desire to transition to that position.

I've never voted Labour in my life, and I'm not a big fan of unions, but I'm becoming more friendly to the idea of natural resources being a nationalised enterprise - moreover, energy, trains, transport, essentially anything that isn't a luxury.

How do you feel about that captain - their aren't many peoples opinions I listen to, but you are certainly one of them.

I fully support China in its stance by the way.

A global economic infrastructure based on diatribe economics is destined to fail.

China exports more to Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam (combined) than that to the US.

Forget India and Germany, the rest is 62.08% .

For anyone to suggest China isn't in a better position that the US is being ridiculous.

They could cut out exports to the US tomorrow and the they'll survive from other global interest - the US won't.

Beautiful to hear from you Captain Svend. I feel I may be having one of my savant episodes of righteousness right now so I do apologise for anyone not able to argue against me - that said, I continue my point of view at this point.

All that said, I'm happy to debate anything I said in Jan that wasn't clear... That's what makes us better.

Not at all Dusty. I said clearly in my Jan Blog that these tariffs where not just a progressive action from the US(Trump) but actually a totally disruptive situation that the global economy would have to work with.

I stated clearly that money should be going into mining at that point - to hopefully allow investors the chance to not get the hurt they would surely have with Trumps dire ideas.

I've not correct my Jan blog, it's there for all to see at the point I posted it.

The decision to trade out of US stocks at this time is a different topic.

In reply, I'm a little fed up of being right all the time and excusing that fact.

I can't help being correct - and as the initial post suggests, Haters will hate!

Dustyslay, In polite debate my friend, did you see the huge Tarrifs I did? Or did you think it would be a minimal tariff for each country to continue trading?

Dustyslay, I'm not one of those idiots here who say "look at me, I'm amazing".... but I did call the Tarrifs back in January, as I have shown. Nobody else was worried about Tarrifs at that point - I was!

i'd honestly not like to know what is about to happen but i'll tell you if you are interested?

tariifs will continue with china (which is rather funny now if truth be told). you get to 100% and you can't trade. anything after than (200, 500, 10,0000) means nothing. it will fall on its **** and china will reciprocate a 15% tariff for the interim.

from there, we have a global 10% tariff from the us after these 90 days and trump will suggest he's the main man for instigating exactly what was there in the first place.

what i consider to be most important, is the global situation with china not giving a crap about exports to the us.

that is key right now. china export to hong kong, japan and south korea to the same volume of the us.

moreover, the other 159 countries they export to dwarf the us export in volume.

fact is, china hold the cards right now, and i'm very happy they do.

I'm not here to say I know everything. I know that berates those RR workers (I'm not a RR worker).

However, I know my stuff. I knew RR would be £7 come Feb 2025 (I said that back in 2020). And it happened, and everyone who hates me can't give me credence on that.

I called the Tariffs back in January, and again, hater's won't want to acknowledge that I did (although is factual in what I've shown).

I can't help but be correct all these times chaps. It's embarrassing to try and make you feel better for arguing against me.

I know exactly what will happen in the next 90 days, but you won't want to hear it. Or will you?

Moreover back in Jan I then said this:

WHERE TO INVEST?

So we have a dilemma here.

Whether you're a socialist or a capitalist, we are soon to enter an even more capilist state, globally, than we ever imagined. My forecast is the absolute lacklustre approach we have in UK will be detriment to 2025 and beyond.

The amount of hostile takeovers of decent UK companies will be at an all time high in 2025/2026 due to the righteous greed of retail share holders. I'm one of them, and I find it hard to offer any kind of argument to not make a 'fast buck' in companies we don't really care about, but I'm not going to be the one person voting with three fat cat board members to keep things UK - they should have done better in the years before.

Musk (et al) is already berating UK industry - don't be fooled he's not doing this for any other reason to buy cheap, as he did with Twitter.

If we leave things to the last minute, as the UK government are with the obvious choice of RR SMR LTD to supply the UK with future energy, we are destined to become an "end of line sale" for any external factor with money.

All that said, I'm not selling out just yet - I'm personally investing in UK companies that have global importance.

We just need to convince those in power that these amazing UK companies need support and maybe do exactly what Trump is about to do in the US?

PUT BRITAIN FIRST

I'll make the logo if you guys want to source the caps?

(Not red ones though!)

Joking aside, I feel we're on the brink of disaster if we don't man up and reaffirm our desire to be a leader in this capitalist world we're living in.

Anybody unable to see my blog in Jan this year, I said this:

TARIFFS

Trump plays the "Big Business Boy" with the threat of these potential tariffs as he feels the US has the only say on matters, and it will benefit the US financially.

So:

25% tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico, an additional 10% levy on Chinese imports (could be around 60% tariffs) looks like Trump is taking strong action to get his 'level playing field' but has he not thought about the factor of economic transition? Can China simply sell to the EU, UK, Japan and other countries with a lesser tariff to the US to then sell on to the US?

In 2022 China was the top supplier to the US with 16.5% of gross imports (around $540m), Mexico was second by the way (you know that wall he wants to build?) 😂

I think we know what Trump and his followers want

US for the US (America First)

Great slogan Mr Trump but you have no idea of economics.

Trump feels the US exports balance this out, but they are second to China in terms of exports (monetary value) - so someone do the maths for me? You put a 60% tariff on China imports to the US whilst your top three countries for export are Canada, Mexico and.... yes, you guessed it... China!

If the UK had a stronger government, and one of more economic understanding, we'd simply say "Yes Mr Trump, you put your 60% tariff on China and let us store the stock for you".

UK then buy the US requirement from China at current 5% tariff and export said goods to the US?

This sounds silly, I know, but totally economically viable and valuable to the UK - we could just be a big storage unit for intermediary exports.

Is that suggestion more ridiculous that the silly tariffs being bantered around by Trump?

I really hate to say I got it right.... but I got it right. And I know exactly where this will end up.

I suggested getting into minerals at that time. I never forecast what Trump has actually done but I was pretty close.

I'm not here to say "look at me, I'm golden", but I do know my stuff regardless of those that argue against me.

Next blog coming soon.

But on the 16th of January, I my blog said this:

https://mailchi.mp/78b23eb9f5f8/nettles-stocks-for-january-18157128?e=2107b5af1a

“ that’s some great news!”

apologies ****flyer, i thought you mentioned only those who work within rollroyce can have a claim of purchase?

not being rude dude, but sounds like you’re the last to know.

toilet cleaning is an awesome job mate.