Trump, typhoons, taxes and tariffs

Trump, typhoons, taxes and tariffs
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Simon Robertson
Typhoon warnings are called a taifū (台風) in Japan, in China and Hong Kong, it’s a tai fung (颱風). It's suggested that its origin is Arabic – sailors who used ‘tufan’ to describe a large cyclonic storm or the Greek word "typhon", meaning ‘monster'.Typhoon credentialsI am good to go: I have seen tech bubbles, Long-term capital management, Black Mondays, the GFC, 911 and covid. I also lived in Hong Kong for 15 years and saw my fair share of actual typhoons. They run the systems T1 (stand...

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