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I own some AMZN. I bought in 2 lots early April, $182 adn $175. I am holding. Clearly they don't have to worry about competition from WMT online - they still can't get there act together. But what I am really waiting to see is if they get tiktok.
Tough to be a daytrader the last month. I did pretty well with my long VIX stuff on April 2nd. Been giving it back a little at a time since
Call me a doubter because if all these tariff plans hold the course it will start impacting a lot of companies, and then the actual economy. It's going to take a while for the real impacts to hit the streets. It hit the stock market first because investors didn't like the economic "plan". The real impact will be the effect on all the businesses, and that in turn will effect the prices and availability of products ... we all know what that causes. If these tariff plans aren't modified to something logical, my bet is by Christmas buying season, the spending will be way down and people will be carving toys from wood in the back yard for their kids instead of buying them stuff.
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I believe most countries will fall in line and we will get deals that are fair for both sides . China is another story , who knows . It's not like they care about their citizens.Call me a doubter because if all these tariff plans hold the course it will start impacting a lot of companies, and then the actual economy. It's going to take a while for the real impacts to hit the streets. It hit the stock market first because investors didn't like the economic "plan". The real impact will be the effect on all the businesses, and that in turn will effect the prices and availability of products ... we all know what that causes. If these tariff plans aren't modified to something logical, my bet is by Christmas, the spending will be way down and people will be carving toys from wood in the back yard for their kids instead of buying them stuff.
GainCall me a doubter because if all these tariff plans hold the course it will start impacting a lot of companies, and then the actual economy. It's going to take a while for the real impacts to hit the streets. It hit the stock market first because investors didn't like the economic "plan". The real impact will be the effect on all the businesses, and that in turn will effect the prices and availability of products ... we all know what that causes. If these tariff plans aren't modified to something logical, my bet is by Christmas buying season, the spending will be way down and people will be carving toys from wood in the back yard for their kids instead of buying them stuff.
Anything is possible with these fake, phony and manipulated markets.
All retail store shelves can be empty for 6 with cobwebs and we might see new highs with the Puppet Masters keep pumping it up higher and higher.
Like I said before….. it’s similar to WWF pro wrestling match.
At this point it's all chaos and the long view of the economic future is anyone's guess because the people trying to execute this "plan" are reactive knee-jerkers. At this point the stock market is just basically disconnected and a day trading business when there's this level of chaos ... driven by "investors" (more like gamblers) trying to buy low and sell higher for short term pump and dump profits. If this economic "plan" plays out in the current form, I think it will eventually catch up and hurt the economy ... not make this a "boom town" economy like some are lead to believe will happen. Time will tell, and I'm sure there will be more chaos to come.
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Agreed, I'm not interested in paying new highs for everything as that's how you become a bag holder..Tough to be a daytrader the last month. I did pretty well with my long VIX stuff on April 2nd. Been giving it back a little at a time since
We don’t need boom town. We need to not be tied to China. They are not a trading partner never were. They are a serial abuser. Secondly USA is not the world trading patsy.
"All chaos" kinda tells me you winging your opinion, man.
There is no easy button but things will work out even though people are rooting against it
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Don't forget India
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The point is, the "plan" is chaotic, and if it stays on the current track it's going to cause more pain and economic impacts. No "winging" anything, that's my opinion just like you or anyone else has an opinion based on what they see unfolding. It basically took 40-45 years to get to this point that should have been dealt with along the lines in real time over the last 4 decades, not trying to reverse 40 years in 4 months.
I'm not disputing that this country should be way more self sufficient, it absolutely should be for many reasons. I saw that movement starting to go on 40 years ago at the company I was working for back then - there was a big inhouse movement to not outsource. They were famous for designing and building everything in the company themselves, or in the US (some military programs absolutely stayed here for security reasons), but corporate wanted more profits so they started outsourcing outside the US more an more, driven by profit greed and stockholder satisfaction to ensuring strong public investment. That business model started being practiced by more and more US companies decades ago (Intel was another good example - they even outsourced design projects), and now we are here.
So the bottom line of my point is this "plan" is too chaotic and being executed sloppy and hasty, mainly driven by a showing of "power and control" at this point without much if any regard for the real effect and impacts it will actually cause. The "planners" don't seem to have much economic forethought or expertise in their wheelhouse, and basically ignore economic experts. So here we are, along for the ride, and it's just started. And as already seen, the "plan" changes all the time because it's a "test and react" process due to no good forethought on how the moves impact the country and world economy.
Almost worse, I think just about every prepared food we eat has ingredients made in China
Just about all spices except if you hunt and buy higher end spices on your own you may be able to find a different country of origin, prepared and commercial food use the lowest cost possible and even as a consumer it’s almost impossible to avoid China.
When it comes to pharmaceuticals, at least we know the USA pharmaceutical companies or testing the products for quality control.
I’m not so sure spices off the food rack in your supermarket are treated the same
I suggest you filter your "news", use more varied sources, etc.
