Trumpenomics
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There was always a fair case to be made that the market was overvalued (and continues to be). But that doesn't mean that this correction has anything to do with anything other than the chaos tariffs.
@Horace said in Trumpenomics:
There was always a fair case to be made that the market was overvalued (and continues to be). But that doesn't mean that this correction has anything to do with anything other than the chaos tariffs.
My point was they (Trump and his financial team) never even hinted that they believed that before the Trump sell off.
Only non-witches get due process.
- Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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@Horace said in Trumpenomics:
There was always a fair case to be made that the market was overvalued (and continues to be). But that doesn't mean that this correction has anything to do with anything other than the chaos tariffs.
My point was they (Trump and his financial team) never even hinted that they believed that before the Trump sell off.
@jon-nyc said in Trumpenomics:
@Horace said in Trumpenomics:
There was always a fair case to be made that the market was overvalued (and continues to be). But that doesn't mean that this correction has anything to do with anything other than the chaos tariffs.
My point was they (Trump and his financial team) never even hinted that they believed that before the Trump sell off.
I took your point, that they are using situational rhetoric. That would be ubiquitous in all of politics.
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I wonder how much money will go to the coffers through these tariffs. It seems like that's never talked about. I'm not sure it's even budgeted in the deficit forecasts. Of course, nobody knows what the tariffs will be, so there's good reason not to budget them.
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Current total tariffable trade is $4T. At 25% that’d be $1T.
But either the tariffs are about stopping imports to stimulate domestic producers or it’s about raising revenue. Can’t be both.
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Current total tariffable trade is $4T. At 25% that’d be $1T.
But either the tariffs are about stopping imports to stimulate domestic producers or it’s about raising revenue. Can’t be both.
@xenon I think the practical effect of tariffs is necessarily a bit of both.
But the part where it's a supposedly good thing to bring back a bunch of mindless assembly line jobs at inflated wages in a dying industry that is destined to be overtaken by machines, makes me a little sick in my stomach. Then if it got to the point where we didn't allow those jobs to be overtaken by machines, because of union protectionism, while the rest of the world sprinted past us with automation, that becomes dystopic. Manufacturing jobs are nobody's American dream.
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If it was possible to have factories up and running within a month or two, this still wouldn’t have merit.
The Brad
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Current total tariffable trade is $4T. At 25% that’d be $1T.
But either the tariffs are about stopping imports to stimulate domestic producers or it’s about raising revenue. Can’t be both.
@xenon said in Trumpenomics:
Current total tariffable trade is $4T. At 25% that’d be $1T.
About a quarter of that are services, many really difficult to put tariffs on. Example: travel. When you go to Portugal and get a hotel room in Lisbon, that counts as an ‘import’.
Imported goods are more like 3T. Of course the tariffs affect demand so you can’t just multiply that by 0.25. But it’s still a lot of money in taxes on the American people.
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If it was possible to have factories up and running within a month or two, this still wouldn’t have merit.
@LuFins-Dad said in Trumpenomics:
If it was possible to have factories up and running within a month or two, this still wouldn’t have merit.
I have hope that automation will be allowed to continue apace, and having automated factories in America would actually be a good thing. Musk is a pioneer of factory automation, so it's not far-fetched that this is in the mind of the administration.
The other hope would be that the tariffs are a negotiating tool which will motivate more advantageous trade agreements for America.
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@LuFins-Dad said in Trumpenomics:
If it was possible to have factories up and running within a month or two, this still wouldn’t have merit.
I have hope that automation will be allowed to continue apace, and having automated factories in America would actually be a good thing. Musk is a pioneer of factory automation, so it's not far-fetched that this is in the mind of the administration.
The other hope would be that the tariffs are a negotiating tool which will motivate more advantageous trade agreements for America.
The other hope would be that the tariffs are a negotiating tool which will motivate more advantageous trade agreements for America.
Take dairy. Hypothetically Canada caves and gets rid of its supply management that assigns the US a tariff free quota for dairy products. We too revert back to a government subsidy system as in the US and EU, to keep our domestic dairy industry viable - you know, the Support Your Local Farmer ethos. The problem though is that consumers here are so pissed off at the US that they refuse to buy US produced dairy products. Canadian distributors and suppliers stop importing because the demand is not there. Consumers would rather pay a premium for Canadian or EU made products because they are not of US origin.
Once again I come back to the statement, you cannot fool the market.
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- I think real estate is still in a bubble.
- I also think a lot of P/E ratios are hideous.
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@Jolly said in Trumpenomics:
- I think real estate is still in a bubble.
- I also think a lot of P/E ratios are hideous.
High asset prices and high PE ratios are products of market and consumer optimism.
I think the Trump policies are doing a great number on that optimism.
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I don’t see the sociological signs of a housing bubble but I agree with you on P/Es.
Housing is expensive, largely because we subsidize homeborrowership while restricting the fuck out of new supply.
It could come down as interest rates go back up, which seems inevitable.
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If this is a good forecast housing might get a little cheaper.
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/bank-lending-rate
United States Average Monthly Prime Lending Rate
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Recession, "detox," "worth the pain," "not that bad" ...
Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, has said Mr. Trump’s policies are “worth it” even if they cause a recession. Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, has said the economy may need a “detox period” after becoming dependent on government spending. And Mr. Trump has said there will be a “period of transition” as his policies take effect.
“It’s the kind of language that you use when your policy isn’t going great and you can see that it’s actively harming people,” ...
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They'll change their tune pretty quickly if there is a recession and Trump's popularity goes down the toilet.
A bunch of millionaires and billionaires telling regular folk that they need to suffer for the common good is really going to go down well.
