"The good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy"

That's a summary of Trump's entire snake oil pitch.

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This wouldn’t be an issue if stores just listened and ate the cost of tariffs

4 minutes ago, paco said:

This wouldn’t be an issue if stores just listened and ate the cost of tariffs

F'ng commie stores. how dare they care about their P&L's.

8 minutes ago, paco said:

This wouldn’t be an issue if stores just listened and ate the cost of tariffs

As much as I was an inflation doomer on here months ago and proceeded to look like an idiot as inflation remained somewhat steady, I have it my mind that corporations were doing their best to eat some of the costs. Yeah, they stocked up inventories as much as they could but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to give Trump some rope in hopes that he'd finally get some meaningful trade deals done. I think the rope is starting to run out and as inventory levels start to fall, consumers are going to be passed the full cost of tariffs.

Of course tariffs were going to raise prices if they persisted. The people thumping their chests the last month have absolutely no foresight.

Yeah, the cost of housing is trending upwards from the looks of it. Which is weird because the assurances from the wicked smaht trumpbots was that getting rid of all brown people was gonna make things significantly more affordable.

40 minutes ago, paco said:

This wouldn’t be an issue if stores just listened and ate the cost of tariffs

I was told the tariff money was "pouring in” from the "other countries”.

1 hour ago, mayanh8 said:

As much as I was an inflation doomer on here months ago and proceeded to look like an idiot as inflation remained somewhat steady, I have it my mind that corporations were doing their best to eat some of the costs. Yeah, they stocked up inventories as much as they could but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to give Trump some rope in hopes that he'd finally get some meaningful trade deals done. I think the rope is starting to run out and as inventory levels start to fall, consumers are going to be passed the full cost of tariffs.

There are very few outlier examples where the exporting country is being reported as eating the tariff. Japanese cars seems to be one. Overall the US consumer is being tariffed at its highest rate since 1933.

2 minutes ago, dawkins4prez said:

There are very few outlier examples where the exporting country is being reported as eating the tariff. Japanese cars seems to be one. Overall the US consumer is being tariffed at its highest rate since 1933.

The bottom half of the country getting hit the hardest with consumption taxes and still voting for him en masse because they don't understand the meaning of the word "tariff" is kinda hilarious if I'm being honest.

1 hour ago, mayanh8 said:

As much as I was an inflation doomer on here months ago and proceeded to look like an idiot as inflation remained somewhat steady, I have it my mind that corporations were doing their best to eat some of the costs. Yeah, they stocked up inventories as much as they could but I wouldn't be surprised if they tried to give Trump some rope in hopes that he'd finally get some meaningful trade deals done. I think the rope is starting to run out and as inventory levels start to fall, consumers are going to be passed the full cost of tariffs.

Pretty much this. Since our biggest months are July and August, we start stocking and manufacturing inventory in the winter. We have plenty of pre-tariff madness stock on hand and pushed off the majority overseas purchasing until fall waiting to see if this shakes out. It has allowed us to maintain pricing, but some of the restock containers we're going to be looking at a 66% markup just to land it instead of 35-40% markup. We'll eat that to get us through peak months since we have enough lower cost inventory on hand and our margins are strong, but we're working on pricing earlier than ever and it's not going to be pretty. Especially since we deal with a lot of aluminum. Our US extruders just raised it 23 cents a pound.

3 hours ago, rambo said:

Pretty much this. Since our biggest months are July and August, we start stocking and manufacturing inventory in the winter. We have plenty of pre-tariff madness stock on hand and pushed off the majority overseas purchasing until fall waiting to see if this shakes out. It has allowed us to maintain pricing, but some of the restock containers we're going to be looking at a 66% markup just to land it instead of 35-40% markup. We'll eat that to get us through peak months since we have enough lower cost inventory on hand and our margins are strong, but we're working on pricing earlier than ever and it's not going to be pretty. Especially since we deal with a lot of aluminum. Our US extruders just raised it 23 cents a pound.

It's almost like electing the world's most retarded politician to be in charge of the largest economy on Earth was a really bad decision. I guess this, plus covering up child rape, are just things we're gonna have to live with for the next 3.5 years because we "didn't like her policies".

Looks like Hydrogen is the future. Good for the economy

And even that seems like a best-case estimate. Maybe they mean initially, but long term I'd bet it's closer to 90 or 100.

weird, i was told that gas prices are "PLUNGING".

5 minutes ago, Alpha_TATEr said:

weird, i was told that gas prices are "PLUNGING".

Is gas expensive these days?

I wouldn’t know, I charge my car with free, clean electricity

1 minute ago, paco said:

Is gas expensive these days?

I wouldn’t know, I charge my car with free, clean electricity

just know, lord trump is coming after smug ev jerks like yourself.

we voted for this.

Just now, Alpha_TATEr said:

just know, lord trump is coming after smug ev jerks like yourself.

we voted for this.

Try and take it!

(But seriously, they have a free charger at work so I’m making it my life’s mission to never pay for charging again )

On 7/15/2025 at 11:32 AM, dawkins4prez said:

There are very few outlier examples where the exporting country is being reported as eating the tariff. Japanese cars seems to be one. Overall the US consumer is being tariffed at its highest rate since 1933.

Well, luckily nothing bad came out of that decade.

3 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

We are eating the cost on some key items for my company but, don't know how long that will last as of right now... People will lose their sheet when the price of bananas go up and im not even joking.

One of the key items that consumers pay attention to while grocery shopping. Eggs are bad enough wait till other everyday items start going up.

Who needs groceries when gas prices are waaaaay down…😅

3 hours ago, Frankfurteagle89 said:

Who needs groceries when gas prices are waaaaay down…😅

"Plummeting"!

28 minutes ago, Paul852 said:

"Plummeting"!

dude, wawa just paid me to fill the tank.