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@Calde13 It wasn't random. It was planned and targeted from a sick individual that hated literally everyone. |
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@fubah2 Dems - take from the rich >>> to give to the "poor" (ie, the overwhelming majority) CONS - take from the poor >>> to give to the rich!
Fixed your color coded words for you. Take a look and let me know what you think. democRATS - tax the rich >>> waste the money (Could be a thousand page post on how they waste the funds). Deceit their followers to believe they are working with robinhood. bahhhaaaa RepublICANs - Creates work >>> to move the economy!
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cave0707 | 755 |
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@joe pockets
Quote Originally Posted by joe pockets:
@BigGame90 I think there’s a difference between Natural & Manufactured cost hikes? Tariffs are paid by the origin and the recouped by price to the consumer….Not Natural ! Trump and his cabinet royal rump kissers will understand come November…If only ICE would come the Carolina’s. Georgia and Texas and detain undocumented immigrants that have built 80 to 85% of the homes by company’s like DB Horton Mungo & Linear…Who are huge donors to the GOP on a state & Federal lever….This would make a lot of rich southerns angry!…Not one arrest by ICE since Trumps 1st day in the Myrtle Beach…Business as usual!
Have any facts? In the future, I'll stop reading your posts when you slander someones name. Have already skipped over a couple posters in here that slander on every post. I'm not coming here to read or engage in garage.
I would imagine some of the quick housing developments that have been popping up in major cities have produced some lower quality workmanship warranty. But hey, we need lower cost housing, right? How else do you get lower costs? You can go read some reviews on the new builds to get a better idea. I'd suggest you give it a try if you'd like to do your own research on how the builds are going. Reviews (until AI takes them over) give a good idea of the living situations. |
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Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:
@StumpTownStu No comment on personal information, I wont disclose anything about me personally since in the past when i did even a SLIGHT discussion of my personal life there were many who personally attacked me with that information, a few still are members today so I will not be saying anything about what I did in the past. Lets just say I know the difference between low, mid and high quality items and I know the value of paying a bit more to get a LOT more in return. I would rather skip consuming or making something of low quality than to get the ingredients to MAKE the high quality product. To answer your other question, a place like RD or Sysco will carry a very small section of high end products but the majority of the stock is mid to low quality stuff used for mass production, so for example I bought some BOUNCER flour today it is high gluten used for artisan baking and I cannot find a similar quality high gluten product anywhere else that I find performs as well so I buy a 25 lb bag of BOUNCER ever so often for home use. It is my experience that the higher end pastas or cheeses or sauces etc you will have to find an importer that carries that elite brand if you are seeking that upper end product. I buy the Callebaut chocolate line at RD because it is considered an upper tier chocolate for baking but getting it at RD is as cheap as the Nestle bag at Costco, so I will drag my butt up to RD which is a 20 min drive to get a few items that are a good price and high quality.
In my line of work, I've found that manufactures haven't been focusing on their higher end products ever since covid. So finding the high quality product takes more work to deliver. At the same time, suppliers can be down sizing, trimming the fat and they have no room or capital to stock high end materials that may take longer to sell or may never sell. The elimination process of the higher end products slowed or stopped when covid opened back up. Even since the economy has been burning hot the last handful of years, customers might have stayed away from the higher value, higher quality and have shifted to the mid to lower tier prices/qualities. Maybe that's because of inflation? Maybe because of supply chain? Maybe the majority of consumers (the middle class ya know) have been squeezed and have been pushed to buy lower quality? |
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Quote Originally Posted by Zeus4par:
Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers: This morning I did my once a quarter trip to Restaurant Depot which is a warehouse that small businesses use to purchase items they sell so pretty much any small to midsize QSR or full service restaurant either uses them or an outfit like Sysco but pricing at RD is less than delivery because you are not paying for delivery (from experience) I do not run a restaurant any longer but anyone who has an LLC can sign up for a membership so I will go there for a set of items I cannot find at places like Kroger or Costco or Whole Foods and buy that way knowing I will use larger quantity over a few months time. So this trip I went with the intention of buying two or three things and maybe a few others depending on price. What I found is that the items I was considering based on price were dramatically impacted quarter over quarter due to tariffs. Ive purchased items like Chilean sea bass, high end filet/ribeye steaks, belgian chocolate etc. What I noticed is that all items I thought would be higher priced WERE higher priced vs the first quarter time frame by between 20-30%. Seabass was higher by 30%, chocolate up by 25% and steaks were up 30%. I also noticed other imported fish items were up as much or more (like crab or lobster). So what this means is when restaurants have to pay higher prices they either have to pass that along to the consumer or absorb the higher costs and thus have less profits and less earnings since most small to mid businesses are owner operated. THIS is the definition of tariff inflation flow through. Profit margins in most restaurants are very small to begin with. They can't absorb the costs and stay in business long. They either raise their prices or keep the prices the same but reduce the portion sizes, which we see happening in many products where size or quantity are an issue So instead of sitting down to a meal filling a large plate soon we could be sitting down to the same menu item but it only fills a medium size plate for the same price Since the actual price wouldn't rise, the dishonest Trump regime will claim they are doing a fantastic job for American consumers with the tariffs policy
This has always been going on and has been more prevalent shortly after covid. The media just never brought it up. I wonder why? Portion sizes were going down (clever packaging) while prices were up. Do you think this has more to do with corporations trying to maximize profits or the US trying to make people less fat? Maybe both. Probably both. |
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@wallstreetcappers You're complaint is prices are raising and it's from Trumps tariffs. Prices rose right after covid, did you have issues with inflation then? If so, what's the difference between prices rising because we printed money, or rising because of tariffs? I threw the lib jab in because inflation is a form of taxation while tariffs is a more in your face taxation. Is it true that liberals/democrats are in favor of increasing taxes? If so, why would a lib complain when tariffs go up which is basically a tax? Liberals only like when taxes raise when it's NOT Trump who raised them? |
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@wallstreetcappers So the problem it seems you and may other libs have is that tariffs have the potential to raise prices for consumers and/or possibly lower profits for business, right? Is it only a problem when prices are higher when it's possibly due to tariffs and the supposed to be accepted when it's just a direct increase in taxes? Isn't a tariff just another option as opposed to simply raising taxes? With raising taxes, that's it. With tariffs, there's at least options, right?
I thought libs wanted more taxes. Inflation is just a form of tax, right? Did we have inflation from the printing of money? Or is inflation just an issue now because of Trumps tariffs? |
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I knew this thread wouldn't be bumped by the usual suspects. To those that want to punish the gun industry, do you also want to punish those that pushed this child to progress in the transformation of ones gender? Besides the tool, do you see any other commonality with the recent mass shootings in schools? Remember, the guns don't fire themselves and AI bots are not walking the streets yet. |
Midnight1 | 1907 |
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@cd329 Markets are at all time highs, everyone in the market is wealthy right now. On paper. |
Danelaw | 1347 |
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@cd329 This could have been put in the countless other threads about Musk, DOGE or Trump. Please enlighten us, what would happen with the iNfO? Since you seem to outraged by this, please describe what you think could happen with this aRtIcLe and the consequences in detail. Use your big brain and get into specifics. |
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Every person with a smart phone are now at risk
Fixed the title for you. |
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Quote Originally Posted by wallstreetcappers:
@BigGame90 Well when you have to throw out insults to make a point I guess I will make a counter point using your same logic but no insults.. Given this jaded logic you cannot credit Trump with any easing of inflation until his inflation numbers are under that to which he left office, just using this absurd partisan approach you made here. So if you want to blame Biden for inflation (hilarious) and criticize a member for his generalization then please do the same with regards to your political party and any generalizations or praise observations. Trump has a LONG LONG ways to go to claim victory on inflation especially given your analysis.
Is it an insult if it's true? I never credited Trump with lowering inflation, did I? Did I blame Biden for inflation? Not in this post. I just stated the numbers under his term. I also just stated how the bot is obfuscating the truth, like it does in every post it makes. Please go back and try to find 1 post that is in favor of Trump. You won't find any in the nearly 8k posts. Of those posts, they 100% read like a bot with an agenda. Just calling a spade a spade, why hate on me for it? Is the bot part of your army? Seems like it since you're always quick to take it's side. |
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Quote Originally Posted by thirdperson:
Quote Originally Posted by Calde13: your economy has basically not experienced the effects of it yet (apart from him rolling a lot of it back - the companies also stockpiled in advance and the supply chain is something like 6-8 weeks behind!) Your most likely future is stagnation or stagflation ! Which is due to dollar value falling, unemployment growing and inflation not falling fast enough - it is still outweighing the wage gains - so it still makes you poorer for each passing month - your economy is on life control and you should be happy you have that Jerome guy at least having some idea of what he is doing - cause Trump don’t Trump inherited a strong economy with low inflation and unemployment from Biden. US economy is like a big ship that slowly changes direction. Effect of Trump bad policies on US economy could take months to be fully implemented. Most economists disagree with Trump dumb trade war. If something doesn't work in theory, it is unlikely to work in practice. When you say "low inflation", do you mean YoY rates or since Biden took office? Seems like you're trying to hide the fact that Biden brought on record inflation that stayed elevated and never returned to when he entered office. So he actually increased inflation at record rates and he didn't technically have low inflation relative to his 4 year term. Did your bot program gloss over the super elevated inflation Biden couldn't bring back down? Inflation spiked, then stayed elevated. It was never "low". Lets get it straight because your attempt at left leaning manipulation propaganda doesn't go unnoticed.
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cave0707 | 755 |
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@wallstreetcappers I believe Clinton was the spark for the start of the housing crisis and everyone thereafter played a roll in allowing the snowball to build. It got to a point that everyone, literally everyone, was greedy and stopped paying attention because everything was gravy.
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@HayHay2 Nice write up and I agree with you. I'll have to look into the Fannie and Freddie scandal that you talked about as I'm always ready for another rabbit hole to dive down. Lowering rates will allow more people to qualify, however, sellers will eventually raise prices as demand is picking back up due to expanding the qualifying pool. I think we're still in the middle stages of sellers realizing they lost a lot of qualified buyers as rates have been increased which in turn caused prices to come down to allow a larger groups of qualified buyers. I believe this is why homes have been actively been cutting listing prices. Currently, banks are making higher interest while lending less. So lowering rates might help in the immediate by opening up the qualifying pool while the long term would most likely push more buyers back out as prices rise since demand is higher, right? So do you really fix "elevated" prices by lowering rates? If credit is maxed for most and most people are tapped, who's going to qualify if we lower rates right now? What happens if we lower rates and then face a recession right after because rates are low and demand is also low?
I've been noticing large construction for multi unit family's being built and it really seems like the pace has slowed to a snails pace right now while they wait for the empty units to sell. If they need to sell to finish the build, they are in trouble and lower interest rates won't help. My guess on that is because the builders are offering 5% and they are still not selling. So I don't think there's a short in supply otherwise they'd have more incentive to pick up pace and finish. If they need to sell in order to finish, they are in trouble. I think the banks are the only ones that was to lower rates considering the ZIRP that WallStreet was referencing.
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@wallstreetcappers Still waiting to hear a logical explanation on why people think the FED should lower rates. All I seem to hear/read is "FED needs to lower rates. Period". I know this is off topic to this thread, but I will continue to ask people why they think rates should come down right now. Powell has never shown his cards and he's doing a great job at not taking sides. I couldn't believe some of the questions from congress today towards Powell. They each had 5 minutes and some of them just hammered the same shit over and over it was actually pretty discouraging to hear congress take part today. Everyone was greedy back before 08'. Banks were collecting massive fees on loans and then bundling and selling off, home owners were cashing out on elevated appraisals while taking on adjustable rates (hell they had to bring in interest only and then the most ridiculous of them all the Neg am loans to keep feeding the beast). The ones that didn't get greedy ultimately paid the price (in the shorter term). Banks got bailed out and nobody took responsibility, home owners were allowed to basically cash out and then not pay for 12-16 months while the house was in foreclosure and then were able to repurchase after 3 years (used to be 7 after a bankruptcy or default). The ones who made out are the ones that bought the dip and the banks that didn't shut down.
I'll digress as this is off topic was brought in and mostly off topic for the thread. |
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@HayHay2 If people are already priced out of new housing, please explain how lower rates are going to help people buy a house? If people are tapped on credit cards and delinquencies are increasing, please explain how lower rates are going to help? And lets be real, credit cards won't lower their interest rates because the FED does. Have you ever seen CC drastically lower rates? If delinquencies are increasing, why the hell would anyone lending money want to lend more money at lower rates? You do realize when banks lend and defaults happen, the responsible people pay, right?
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Liberal media has once again confused the left. Protestor is not the same as a rioter. Trump sending in the National Guard is not to fight against the protestors. If people can not see the media manipulation happening right now, good luck. Media is not confused when using these terms, they are doing this with intention and it's clearly working after reading posts online. |
joe pockets | 138 |
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@cd329 If you don't want to read my posts, skip over it. When I come here and see your posts at the top, I'm going to comment about how silly you. I don't think I should say you should shut up, I think I'm supposed to say "all you lib tards STFU and go about your day you little cry babies". See, going after everyone and not just you my guy.
Maybe you called on a Friday when they had the day off. Maybe you called on one of the ridiculous federal holidays they get off. Nobody ever gets a live person when calling a govt agency for help. |
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