Tariffs? Buy stuff now?

florduh

Well-Known Member

• Monday at 6:14 PM

• #51

It's just too much chaos. The damage is done. Corpos will raise prices even if their costs haven't increased yet.

 

florduh

Well-Known Member

• Wednesday at 12:36 AM

• #52

everybody who spent the last 3 months assuring me tariffs were about to usher in a new golden age of American manufacturing today

 

florduh

Well-Known Member

• Yesterday at 11:45 AM

• #53

I honestly find this kind of shocking. I thought for sure China would cave at least a little. To keep global trade functioning.

China tells Trump: If you want trade talks, cancel tariffs

China denies any trade talks with the US as it calls for sweeping tariffs to be cancelled.

www.bbc.com

LOL. The US is now begging to negotiate. China says, "nahhh we're good. Best of luck"

 

Flotsam

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• Yesterday at 12:09 PM

• #54

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florduh

Well-Known Member

• Yesterday at 1:45 PM

• #55

Look, I'm no Big City Business Genius. But maybe instead of crashing the global economy to bring factories back, we can instead simply improve the wages of the jobs we have now?

Hyundai factory workers in Alabama make less than McDonalds workers in Denmark

 

old-fart

Maybe not the oldest, but possibly the fartiest!

• 21 minutes ago

• #56

florduh said:

Look, I'm no Big City Business Genius. But maybe instead of crashing the global economy to bring factories back, we can instead simply improve the wages of the jobs we have now?

Hyundai factory workers in Alabama make less than McDonalds workers in Denmark

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If we are going to bring back manufacturing to the US, we are goin to have to cut wages significantly. Like by 75%. Some people may not like this.

 

old-fart

Maybe not the oldest, but possibly the fartiest!

• 11 minutes ago

• #57

I just went to order some more from AliExpress, and much of the stuff in my cart is no long able to ship to my country (USA). Bummer.