Trade Wars and Tariffs

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kiddiedoc said:
Can y'all chill out for a bit and let trade, tariff, drug price, border, and peace negotiations work for just a bit before totally losing your minds?
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Why doesn't Trump, the president, chill out for a bit and let things work themselves rather than using his bully pulpit to try to control private business like a socialist Bernie Sanders wannabe?

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Velo Vol said:
Why doesn't Trump, the president, chill out for a bit and let things work themselves rather than using his bully pulpit to try to control private business like a socialist Bernie Sanders wannabe?

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Gotta help all those fine, beautiful MAGA Walmart folk. Ironically if Walmart actually headed his moronic advice, it would be the stockholders who ultimately shoulder the tax. A very pro-communist comment from the Orangeblob.

At least Trump is predictably insufferable and stupid.

Thinking well-done filet with catsup tonight, gents. Thems good eats!
 
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Velo Vol said:
Why doesn't Trump, the president, chill out for a bit and let things work themselves rather than using his bully pulpit to try to control private business like a socialist Bernie Sanders wannabe?

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Who still thinks he has any idea what he's talking about with the economy? I'd like to meet the man brave enough to admit that.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Why doesn't Trump, the president, chill out for a bit and let things work themselves rather than using his bully pulpit to try to control private business like a socialist Bernie Sanders wannabe?

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Executive Order banning private businesses from passing on tariff costs to the consumer, incoming.
 
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Velo Vol said:
This is like watching a chicken running around with its head chopped off.

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Sounds like a strawman argument to me.

Claim:
"We will...
No, we will...
No, we will..."

It seems like the "If/Then" logic that the quote contained would be just as easy to report.

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"You're not grounded now, but if you do x, you will be."

"Talk about parenting like a chicken with its head cut off!"
 
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BeardedVol said:
Lol
www.dailymail.co.uk

Target employee exposes MASSIVE tariff price hike for popular items

Consumer advocates and CEOs have been warning that prices will rise for months. Now, at Target, employees are seeing the first big shifts.
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Even if that is true, the price won't stay there because people will just buy at Amazon:

A $9.99 USB-C cord from the store's in-house Heyday brand is now ringing up at $17.99, according to a self-identified employee on Reddit.
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You can get a pack of 6 for $9.99. If customers don't get it from Amazon, that's on them

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

The point here is that there's too much competition for this kind of stuff. The retailers will have to absorb it to a certain extent
 
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Sea Ray said:
Even if that is true, the price won't stay there because people will just buy at Amazon:



You can get a pack of 6 for $9.99. If customers don't get it from Amazon, that's on them

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

The point here is that there's too much competition for this kind of stuff. The retailers will have to absorb it to a certain extent
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until the competition figures out they can price gouge. call it whatever they want, supply chain issues, supply & demand, government regulations, inflation, whatever. they can just raise their prices, but still keep it lower than the competition to keep the edge, while just increasing their profit margins.
 
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Eventually the market is going to catch up to the reality that the tariffs are not going away and even the "compromised" rate is harsh. Everyone should read what Jamie Dimon said yesterday about the state of the economy. JPM has more of a finger on the pulse of the economy than anyone.
 
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LouderVol said:
until the competition figures out they can price gouge. call it whatever they want, supply chain issues, supply & demand, government regulations, inflation, whatever. they can just raise their prices, but still keep it lower than the competition to keep the edge, while just increasing their profit margins.
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Good thing that I don't need anything. I will just avoid purchasing from their stores.
 
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jmacvols1 said:
it becomes more apparent some companies are using tarriffs as an excuse to raise prices...

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It's apparent huh?

But that means some products could disappear from shelves.
"There's items that we have that could potentially be impacted from a tariff that, candidly, we won't have going forward if it doesn't make sense inside the line structure," Bastek said. He did not name any specific items that might be affected.
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Can't all be like Callahan auto parts
 
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utvolpj said:
It's apparent huh?


Can't all be like Callahan auto parts
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yes, it's apparent.

do you know for a fact how much a tarriff adds to the price of an item? A tarriff may only raise the price of an item 10 cents yet the retailer raises the price 50 cents blaming the 50 cent price increase on tarriffs
 
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jmacvols1 said:
yes, it's apparent.

do you know for a fact how much a tarriff adds to the price of an item? A tarriff may only raise the price of an item 10 cents yet the retailer raises the price 50 cents blaming the 50 cent price increase on tarriffs
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I know the example you used stated they will have to choose empty shelves to avoid the tariff impact. Clearly it adds more than you realize

You also only cite finished goods in your simplistic example whereas tariff impact is much more complex
 
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Sea Ray said:
Even if that is true, the price won't stay there because people will just buy at Amazon:



You can get a pack of 6 for $9.99. If customers don't get it from Amazon, that's on them

Amazon.com

www.amazon.com

The point here is that there's too much competition for this kind of stuff. The retailers will have to absorb it to a certain extent
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You must have missed the meltdown Trump had when it was revealed that Amazon had floated putting up the real cost of the tariffs next to the price on the Amazon website.

Trump lost his sh*t.

At some point, the Trumpers are going to have to come to terms that Donny imposed a tax on us and sold it as something that was good for us. And you bought it. Now he wants to blame the private businesses, beholden to stockholders as the reason it's happening.

If it wasn't evident already, he does think you're all stupid.
 
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Septic said:
. Now he wants to blame the private businesses, beholden to stockholders as the reason it's happening.
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You saw this happen this week with his comments about Wal-Mart. Ironically in those comments he admitted that tariffs are paid by us, not the other country.
 
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