Numerous nations have issued unofficial travel advisory warnings to deter citizens from traveling to the United States under Donald Trump. The tensions between the US and Canada have been particularly bad for tourism. Statistics Canada reported a 23% decline in trips via car from the US this February, marking the second consecutive monthly decline, while trips to the US by air declined 2.4%. March’s data shows that cross-border travel plummeted by 900,000 YoY, marking the worst year of tourism since the COVID pandemic.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data found that 4,105,516 people traveled from Canada into the US this March, down from 4,970,360 visitors in 2024—a 17% decline. Now let’s just say that those 900,000 travelers traveled, say, in families of four, spending $2,500 on their trip. That is $562,500,000 tourism dollars lost in one month alone, and obviously, $2,500 is an extremely low estimate for what one would spend on vacation.

The US Travel Association stated that Canadians spent $20.5 billion in US last year while on holiday, which was believed to support 140,000 jobs in leisure and hospitality. Border towns have been hit the hardest, naturally.

Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a marketing campaign to attract Canadian tourism to California. “You know who’s trying to stir things up back in D.C., but don’t let that ruin your beach plans,” Newsom said. “Here in California, we’ve got plenty of sunshine and a whole lot of love for our neighbors up north.” Newsom is attempting to paint California as an independent state that is not controlled by Washington. Newsom is letting the world know that America is very much a divided nation where our own governors openly do not support the president and are attempting to override him at every step.

Ron deHarte, the mayor of Palm Springs, California, launched a “Palm Springs Loves Canada” campaign to attract tourism. “The Trump administration is sending messages that just don’t feel very American. This is not the way we treat our neighbors and we certainly don’t treat friends like this. It’s hurting people, and it’s causing harm. We understand that this hits close to home to everybody in Canada,” deHarte stated.

Newsom and others fail to see that their messaging is exactly why travelers do not want to visit America. No doubt, the comments regarding turning Canada into a US state deeply offended our northern neighbors. Yet, declining to travel to the US is based on fear-mongering coming from the media and politicians. Dozens of world leaders have issued warnings to their citizens, advising them not to travel to the United States for no valid reason. The checks and balances at the border have not changed for law-abiding individuals. The only difference a few people may encounter is validating their assigned legal gender on their identification.

There has been an ongoing message that it is outright dangerous to travel to the United States under Donald Trump. People genuinely believe that they will wind up imprisoned or in some detention camp since Trump is seen as modern-day Pol Pot, or Hitler, but are we not all exhausted of that headline yet?

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COMMENT: Marty, do not get discouraged. You are being heard here, and people are listening. Your experience in world finance is unsurpassed. You know how to view the world from 35,000 ft above. There are discussions behind the scenes about the tariffs and your historical views.

Keep up the good fight, please.

annonymous

ANSWER: Thank you. I hope you are right.

Happy Easter Sunday to all who celebrate!

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an ‘Easter truce’ in Ukraine. He said his military would cease “all military operations” from 6pm Moscow time on Saturday until midnight Monday in a statement to Russian television.

“Guided by humanitarian considerations, today from 18:00 [Moscow time] to 00:00 [Moscow time] from Sunday to Monday, the Russian side declares an Easter truce.”

“I order that all military actions be stopped for this period.”

 

 

While Wester Fake News constantly support the Neocons and their puttet Zelensky who they installed to create World War III because he was a Neo-Nazi who joked about confiscating assets of Jews and Russians before he was installed as President many Ukrainians believe was a riggesd elect not much different from what they did in Romania, constantly put out propaganda.

 

 

Many now see Zelensky as Soros who pretended to be Christian and aided the Nazis in confiscating Jewish assets. Zelensky only admitted being Jewish after he became president. His Neo-Nazi days of raw hatred of Russians made him the perfect guy to start World War III.

The New York Post in its outlandish claim that Putin is the dictator when Zelensky keeps martial law, renewing it so he does not have to stand for election, when no US President or European Prime Minister ever suspended elections during war, claiming martial law. In fact, under the parliamentary system, the people do not get to vote for the leader of their country. No leader in the EU is ever elected. The only two world leaders who are directly elected by the people just so happen to be

Presidents of USA & Russia

 

QUESTION: How come nobody in Trump’s team can not explain to Trump that the Trade War with China will push the rates up?

It looks very logical to me that if you are aggressive to China, they will continue to sell off bonds, and the sale of USA bonds will push rates higher. If they would start talking peace and honor the One China Policy, they will simply stop selling bonds, and rates would stay lower.

Peace means we all collaborate, and hostility will finally expose the fact that the FED is not controlling the rates, but markets do.

Is this correct logic?

Regards,
GD

ANSWER: I’m not entirely sure. What seems like common sense to me looks like Nobel Prize-winning logic to others. Perhaps because they are just domestic and cannot see the international aspects or how we are all connected, I have encountered strange forecasts from some analysts. However, I can understand it because they are purely domestic and never consider anything outside their own country.

Both China and Japan have been selling US debt, but this was before the tariffs were imposed. Their economies are declining, and they need to bring cash home. In the case of Japan, this is while the Biden Administration was threatening China with sanctions if they helped Russia. One Socrates, we also have all the countries holding US debt. You can look at the trends and see what I am talking about. Yes, selling US debt will send long-term rates higher which the Fed cannot prevent. Trump’s thinking that he can fire Powell and lower rates for politics is without any historical backing.

There is absolutely ZERO evidence that lowering interest rates will EVER stimulate the economy. Trump is dead wrong on this. The ECB went NEGATIVE in 2014, and it still did not reverse the economic decline of Europe, and it made it worse, undermining pensions and banks. Trump is a borrower, not a lender. He has to step back and objectively look at history.

This trade war will cause STAGFLATION, and Trump seems to be taking us in that direction, all on his misguided views that somehow China is to blame for us losing manufacturing. I have experience with multinational companies and have reorganized many. It is the Democratic propaganda that companies move solely because they can get cheaper labor. That is just socialist propaganda.

I even warned a company in Germany that when the Berlin Wall fell, they rushed to open a plant there on this stupid theory of cheaper labor. After one year, they apologized for not listening to me. They bought into the theory that they were Germans so that they would have the same work ethic. They admitted that it took nearly 3 East Germans to do the same work as one West German.

Companies move due to regulations and taxation. I helped some get into North Macedonia, which gave them a 25-year guarantee of no tax increases. I put Japanese companies in Britain that needed skilled labor, vs Germany or France, because the cost of regulation was 40% more on the same salary in Germany vs Britain.

Perhaps because I have dealt with international issues, it’s just common sense to me and our global readers. I sent a letter last week to the Secretary of the Treasury, and I just texted someone else about the tariffs on China. There will be shortages in goods, and that alone will drive prices higher, even without the tariffs.

The Crimean War, from 1853 to 1856, in what is now called Ukraine, halted grain shipments from that region, and wheat prices nearly doubled in the USA due to the war in Crimea.  There was a crash in 1856 when the war ended.

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