Trump's tariff wars...long post.

[SteveXFR]

7 hours ago, Steve Browning said:

 

Very true. It's odd how the 'free market' can apply to everything but people's labour. 

 

Exactly. Skills shortages should result in higher wages to attract those skills but instead, employers seem to just make do with under qualified or inexperienced workers and then moan that they're not up to the job. Skills shortages should also mean an increase in training but that's also not happening. 

[SteveXFR]

5 hours ago, prowla said:

Presumably then there have been a lot of lefty lunatics previously buying or intending to buy Teslas.

 

Where's the good upstanding right wing patriots? Why aren't they all buying Teslas? 

It's mostly lefties who buy EVs while right wingers buy big V8's. Musk should have known that attacking the left was an attack on his customers and would hurt his business but apparently he's a genius.

[Leonard Smalls]

4 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

lefties who buy EVs

I'm glad our Swasticar was on a lease that finished in December!

[TimR]

8 minutes ago, Leonard Smalls said:

I'm glad our Swasticar was on a lease that finished in December!

 

I wouldn't be surprised if MAGA flock to buy them now Trump has announced he's going to buy one. 

 

I have no idea what to believe and what not to believe anymore. 

[Russ]

22 minutes ago, SteveXFR said:

 

Where's the good upstanding right wing patriots? Why aren't they all buying Teslas? 

It's mostly lefties who buy EVs while right wingers buy big V8's. Musk should have known that attacking the left was an attack on his customers and would hurt his business but apparently he's a genius.

He's hoping they'll buy Cybertrucks. Demand for them has softened significantly in the US, and they can't be exported as they don't meet other countries' safety standards. 

 

But they won't. They'll keep buying Fords, Chevys and Rams. 

[Leonard Smalls]

11 minutes ago, TimR said:

I wouldn't be surprised if MAGA flock to buy them

I left an opened pack of prawns inside the aircon vent...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I didn't really but it might have been a spot amusant in findsight!

[mcnach]

2 hours ago, prowla said:

Further news on Trump's special operation trade wars, he is announcing the tariff on Canadian steel & aluminium will be increased to 50%:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cly412xwz44t

 

At this rate China will run out of popcorn very soon

[Woodinblack]

34 minutes ago, TimR said:

I wouldn't be surprised if MAGA flock to buy them now Trump has announced he's going to buy one. 

 

Will they notice the obvious that trump never drives

[tegs07]

Fairly sure tomorrow is the release date for February CPI figures in the USA. Could be interesting. Way too soon to see any real impact from tariffs but if it’s remaining sticky or even rising it will have a big impact on sentiment.

 

Edit: This is the real area of interest for me. I am expecting the usual hatchet job on Powell and if rates are lowered and fiscal policy relaxed when inflation is rising it could get very interesting.

Edited 12 hours ago by tegs07

[tegs07]

Leavitt argued the US would become a "manufacturing superpower"

 

Right so that’s the master plan? 

Good luck with that. Maybe you can force Americans to pay more for things but unless you pay less than China and have the same level of health and safety I doubt you can export to the same levels.

 

So Americans to earn less and pay more sounds like a winner.

[edstraker123]

3 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

Why aren't they all buying Teslas?

Is it because they've realised they have  the style of a 90's Vauxhall ?

[SteveXFR]

2 minutes ago, edstraker123 said:

Is it because they've realised they have  the style of a 90's Vauxhall ?

 

They're not as stylish as even a Nova but they do have similar paint quality. 

[Si600]

Again, another thing to be impressed by Musk, he's managed to persuade people to buy BL quality cars at BMW prices.

[chris_b]

The guy over the road has a Tesla. They've had all kinds of problems with it.

 

Next door has a Skoda EV, and have no issues at all.