Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner

[Russell Jaslow]

Mariners couldn’t even sell out a weekend series against Blue Jays, something that was almost a given in years past.

There's an interesting article in The Athletic about this. Many BC fans cancelled their trips this year for their one chance to see the Blue Jays play.

 

[Kepler]

Number I saw was 80% drop in advance bookings for Canadians traveling here for tourism.

That is the kind of thing that sets up a cascade that wipes out downstream businesses too.

 

[Handyman]

Border towns area being crushed and southern Snowbird hotspots are struggling. I have seen projections for job loss and it ain't good...

 

[walrus]

Maine is going to get killed if Canadians don't show up and it appears they aren't going to. Border towns have slowed down and its hurting retail business in those towns

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Is Susan concerned yet?

 

[ticapnews]

Maine is going to get killed if Canadians don't show up and it appears they aren't going to. Border towns have slowed down and its hurting retail business in those towns

CNN interviewed a hotel owner in Old Orchard Beach who displayed a small stack of domestic reservations and then held up a stack about five times larger that were all the Canadian reservations that has been cancelled. The tourism industry is fucked.

Is Susan concerned yet?

"I am deeply troubled by this thing I will do nothing about."

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Oh, well. I'm sure the tourism industry in Maine is still happy with their Orange God. They worship him every Sunday.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Border towns area being crushed and southern Snowbird hotspots are struggling. I have seen projections for job loss and it ain't good...

Good

 

[ticapnews]

Would you let your family fly out of Newark?

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Changed His Wife's Flight to Avoid Newark Airport

Would you let your family fly out of Newark?

gizmodo.com

 

[Handyman]

Matt McDermott (@mattmfm.bsky.social)

Scathing new op-ed from the Wall Street Journal editorial board torches Trump’s economic failure: “Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs.”...

bsky.app

Those socialists at the Wall Street Journal really going a step too far!

 

[walrus]

Oh, well. I'm sure the tourism industry in Maine is still happy with their Orange God. They worship him every Sunday.

The border towns worship the orange god but not the tourist towns. Although fisherman types on the coast worship the orange one.

 

[Handyman]

Trump is apparently using tariffs as a means to get countries to switch to Starlink to help Elmo out. Nothing says "healthy business and smart leadership" like having the President strongarm Gambia into switching broadband...

 

[rufus]

Muskrat didn't give all that money to the campaign for nuthin'

 

[French Rage]

Trump is apparently using tariffs as a means to get countries to switch to Starlink to help Elmo out. Nothing says "healthy business and smart leadership" like having the President strongarm Gambia into switching broadband...

Makes sense after cutting funding for rural fiber in the US too, to Starlink which has less bandwidth and more latency.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Makes sense after cutting funding for rural fiber in the US too, to Starlink which has less bandwidth and more latency.

Even my one uncle who is fully in the tank for Dump gave up on Starlink, precisely because it was so wildly inconsistent.

 

[French Rage]

Even my one uncle who is fully in the tank for Dump gave up on Starlink, precisely because it was so wildly inconsistent.

I mean, satellite is perfectly useful for pure reachability, if it's somewhere you couldn't reach otherwise and want the option. Otherwise, just run some freaking fiber. Like, if you're trying to connect airports already near populated areas with plenty of options.

 

[LynahFan]

I mean, satellite is perfectly useful for pure reachability, if it's somewhere you couldn't reach otherwise and want the option. Otherwise, just run some freaking fiber. Like, if you're trying to connect airports already near populated areas with plenty of options.

Made me smile. For my MBA capstone project, we had to "advise" a foreign company (who paid the school handsomely for our labor) on breaking into the US market. Our team was assigned to a Finnish company who specialized in setting up stand-alone power grids for rural/remote villages in Africa that were not on utility grids. We dutifully did the analysis, and found exactly zero market for that in the US - we're ALL (to a third order approximation) on utility grids. So we told them not to come to the US, collected our B+'s, and that was that.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I mean, satellite is perfectly useful for pure reachability, if it's somewhere you couldn't reach otherwise and want the option. Otherwise, just run some freaking fiber. Like, if you're trying to connect airports already near populated areas with plenty of options.

He was using it at his vacation home in rural northern Michigan, in an area where there still isn't enough demand to run fiber. But another option became available, so he immediately switched.

 

[French Rage]

Made me smile. For my MBA capstone project, we had to "advise" a foreign company (who paid the school handsomely for our labor) on breaking into the US market. Our team was assigned to a Finnish company who specialized in setting up stand-alone power grids for rural/remote villages in Africa that were not on utility grids. We dutifully did the analysis, and found exactly zero market for that in the US - we're ALL (to a third order approximation) on utility grids. So we told them not to come to the US, collected our B+'s, and that was that.

If you had told them to wait 20 years and sell them as MAGA Freedom Grids you would have gotten the A+.

 

[Handyman]