Trade Wars and Tariffs

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Spineless, worthless cowards. GOP can EAD.

Oh, and McConnel missed the vote and he supposedly would have ended the "emergency" with his tie-breaking vote based on his history. If he was indeed too unwell to show, maybe his constituents deserve somebody who isn't 83 fkn yrs old. Holy ****, we live in a banana republic. Energency powers. What emergency?

reason.com

Senate Republicans voted overwhelmingly to continue Trump's trade war

Sen. Rand Paul's attempt to end the non-existent economic emergency failed to pass the Senate on Wednesday night.
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www.bbc.com

Trump tariffs: Carney wants to lead a G7 fightback

In winning the Canadian election, Mark Carney becomes the biggest economic force against the US president.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

“There was a half expectation here that Carney would immediately sue for peace with President Trump when the polls closed on the election. It has emphatically not happened.”

calls Trump his first day after winning.lol
 
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BeardedVol said:
Lol, you think Trump purchases building materials for his buildings?

This is really what you believe?
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I'm sure he's not ordering himself, but he knows the economics of it. He definitely knows more than you and your fellow libs
 
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Orangeburst said:
www.bbc.com

Trump tariffs: Carney wants to lead a G7 fightback

In winning the Canadian election, Mark Carney becomes the biggest economic force against the US president.
www.bbc.com www.bbc.com

“There was a half expectation here that Carney would immediately sue for peace with President Trump when the polls closed on the election. It has emphatically not happened.”

calls Trump his first day after winning.lol
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Also, yes this is ironic. Will Alberta still be Canada by that time? This entire thing has exploded in his face.

And by an incredible quirk of fate, it is he who will host the G7 summit in Alberta in June, just days before the expiry of President Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs pause. Will Trump attend on the land he both tariffs and covets?
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TheDeeble said:
Amazon wasn’t a big money maker for them. Same reason fedex dropped them a few years ago. Amazon kept the bulk deliveries and packages in the cities that were cheap/convenient for their delivery and farmed out the single deliveries spread out all across the county to ups/fedex. More time consuming and expensive to deliver all the individual packages spread out.

Talked to a friend of mine at UPS. He thinks some of it is the most recent union contract UPS agreed to. There are instances where drivers can get paid 4x hourly. (Yes quadruple overtime). If you work more than 9.5 hours a day three days in a row you can file a grievance and get 4x pay for those hours over. So you get drivers that drag their feet on routes that should take around 8 hours give or take to make it last 11-12 hours. Do that 3 days in a row then file grievance for 4x hourly pay for those 6-8 hours over. 1st 8 hours is straight time. Over 40 is time and half. But hit that 9.5 3 days in a row and those go to 4x. And it’s not like UPS is creating routes that take that long. Drivers can drag it out on purpose. And if UPS tries to have someone follow them on their route to see if they’re intentionally going slow the union will just claim he’s being harassed.

So employees have an incentive to drag their feet to make incredible overtime on a bunch of Amazon packages that weren’t making UPS money to begin with.

Like you’ve suggested it likely has nothing to do with tariffs.
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UPS’ CEO IMO is a big problem, from what I understand she’s the big driver of their partnership with CBRE and that has cost them big time. Facility maintenance costs have gone through the roof yet she keeps doubling down with them.
 
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MontyPython said:
Funny. When you say we've "been screwed", you really mean "free markets aren't fair".

We live in a global economy... you may not like it. You may want to hold your breath until you turn purple about it. But it's not gonna change it. Trump's whole concept of isolationism and "America First" are fundamentally failed concepts from the get-go. Folks like you that buy into Trump's snake oil really have no vision or concept of how the world economy works.
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bahahahahahahahaha
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
I remember thinking those by-the-room complexes near Cherokee Medical were absurd in my day. I think they were 300-400?

Lordy I wish I had held onto my 4th/Gill and Parkridge props. I'd have sold them all for a 500%+ turn and would be retiring early and living on a Mediterranean beach right now.

I can't stand most new builds anyway. I'm also NOT a fan of craftsman. The ones from scratch are bad enough, but when I see these queen anne vics in Mechanicsville and historic north being turned into stupid craftsman homes it makes me blood boil.
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well they aren't good craftsman. or really craftsman at all. all they do is slap on some tapered column wraps, maybe put up some brackets and or shingle siding and call it a day. craftsman was soo much more.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
I paid $600 for a 3BR off Chapman.

In full transparency, one of my best friends owns an inherited condo at Cherokee Bluffs, and we have a nice agreement in place while he renovates it and my son and friends live there. Otherwise, he would probably be commuting.

Another best friend bought and is renovating one of the nicer historic homes in the north/4th and Gill area. She paid a ton for it but it's looking really awesome. She had to preserve much of the character and style and has done well abiding by that. It's been an expensive project though.
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my parents bought my sister a house when she went to UT, not for me while I was there. it was like 60k, 1200sq rancher, on a decent sized lot no major reno needed. they sold it for about 3-4x that much. guy who bought it turned around and flipped it and sold for 2x what he bought it for, without really doing much.

within a decade that house's price went up 5x.
 
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Vol8188 said:
An opinion poll and 1 industry? That’s your comeback?

I don’t care how people feel. That’s not the question. Nor do I care if one specific industry has issues.

Is the overall economy growing? Are people better off today? The answer to both over the long run is yes. You know that too. That’s why you refuse to address reality and instead keep discussing “feelings” like a 3rd grade girl
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I see you conveniently ignored my post about how the Automotive industry is doing and the actual 2024 Financial Reportings.

EDIT: I also don't quite under stand the "leftist" argument when the entire point of MAGA and Trump is that we have lost our manufacturing and need to bring it back. That is more of a MAGA argument (that a lot of leftist agree with as well).
 
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Orange_Crush said:
No more impressive than claiming that the head of a global, muli-billion $ real estate empire doesn't understand tariffs because he isn't the one hammering nails and pouring concrete. lol

Take your partisan hat off and realize how stupid that sounds.
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The lengths you guys will go to for Trump are truly amazing.

So I guess we'll be including CBS, NBC, etc, and all movie studios in the manufacturing jobs report since they "manufacture" television and film content?

The entire housing industry is also now considered "manufacturing" since houses are the end result?

Can we include hospitals as well since they "manufacture" healthcare?
 
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Orange_Crush said:
No more impressive than claiming that the head of a global, muli-billion $ real estate empire doesn't understand tariffs because he isn't the one hammering nails and pouring concrete. lol

Take your partisan hat off and realize how stupid that sounds.
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Understanding tariffs doesn't mean there's an understanding of the difference between negotiating real estate deals and negotiating international trade deals. Huge difference
 
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