Get into a trade war with China, and we’ll likely be seeing inflation in imported goods like appliances and clothing 🙂 Personally, much as I dislike Trump, I actually LOVE the idea of him shooting his fat yappah off and provoking a tariff war with China.
From an environmental/e-waste standpoint, it would be nice to see people not buy unnecessary electronics and throw easily fixed items away. Also, it would be an incentive to design for durability and repairability vs planned obsolescence.
Same goes for clothing — people buy stuff, keep it for a month, the toss it or throw it in the back of their closet. It’s not even recyclable — best use for it is to shred it and covert it into insulation or make it into shop rags.
If a trade war provokes an economic crisis that temporarily knocks down housing, so much the more entertaining. Yes, housing will increase in the long run, but a few bumps in the road would be good entertainment.
