*Laughs nervously in job that largely depends on imports from China*![]()
To combat some of this I guess China is making some things in Vietnam so they can get around tariffs but still this is not great.
Walmart wasn’t making orders under $800, so the 10% hit is what customers will notice. That rule was aimed at Temu, Ali Express and Wish customers.Wal-Mart just got a lot more expensive for many...
Elon Musk is not happy with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking program that adds notes to correct misinformation on his social media platform X. And the billionaire says he’s now going to “fix” Community Notes so that it agrees with him, claiming without evidence that it’s being manipulated by governments and the media.
“Unfortunately, @CommunityNotes is increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media. Working to fix this,” Musk tweeted Thursday.
This is about as clear an indicator as any where the markets think this is heading. The green sectors are as important as the red.Not agreat morning on the markets...all 3 indexes down over 1%. Dow down 600 points and NASDAQ is down over 300.
I thought I saw on BlueSky that every gain the markets had since inauguration were wiped out.Dow down 750, NASDAQ down 2.2%, S&P down 1.7%.
That is odd.This is odd, I never knew firing 10% of highly paid professionals from their federal govt careers while simultaneously taking direct actions to deliberately increase inflation, AND having a secondary impact of increasing expected future inflationary food pressures because the people that are being fired were working on various grain crops to keep future crop prices low as the environment’s changing could be seen as a negative by stock market investors. Weird.
Trump mistook "Great Depression" as something kickass and wants to be responsible for "The greatest depression anyone has ever seen!".![]()
Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social)
BESPOKE: “On a 12-month average basis, .. Housing Starts have completely rolled over from their peak .. “.. Recessions have always followed a rollover in Housing Starts, and the only question is timing.” 🇺🇸bsky.app
Well at least this time he wouldn't be lying when he says people come up to him with tears in their eyes...Trump mistook "Great Depression" as something kickass and wants to be responsible for "The greatest depression anyone has ever seen!".