Nature is healing
The number of ships coming into LA today is lower than Vancouver, Canada. You can look at real time tracking for cargo ships and it’s crazy how empty the US ports are compared to normal. Shanghai still booming tho
Seems bad idk
If your in america and have the means to you should be making sure all your electronics, clothes, etc are good to go for the next few years. Its gonna be hard to find and stuffs gonna be expensive. I don’t have money for new clothes which i already needed and its worrying me. Maybe i can make my own out of blankets and stuff lol. Luckily i rarely upgrade tech anyway and know how to repair stuff so on that i should be fine. Food should be alright for most things atleast. Hope you don’t like Tilapia tho. Like 90% comes from China.
Being in a position where a bunch of my electronics are on the way out but I don’t have the money to replace them before they skyrocket in price is so cool.
what are you needing to replace? I’m pretty resourceful on cheap electronics if you need some reccomendations.
You can buy used clothes, you know. Not to knock your attempt to make them yourself, that’s cool, but there are plenty of ways to avoid having to do that.
Well i imagine the used market prices will go up too it wont be immune to tariffs. Since the supply is limited, and everyone needs clothes. If people cant find them new theyll all go used, and people like me that were already buying used and wearing stuff til it fell apart will be pushed out of even that.
used markets are already precarious, new manufactures are flimsy and theres only so much surplus antiques able to enter the market. then again the US has sat on such a high throne of excess its hard to say how much is out there
I think there’s a ceiling on how much people are willing to pay for an ugly poly blend t-shirt from Goodwill, even in a nightmare scenario.
I mean im guessing my limit on shirts of 9$ per shirt max is a bit below other peoples max.
Nobody wants to bring in shipments because shit could change in the time it takes to get here.
Even “reshoring” is a bad business call because all of the equipment and materials that go into that are more expensive and uncertain.
If Trump doesn’t fold soon, we’ll be on track for a sequel to the Great Depression.
If Trump doesn’t fold soon, we’ll be on track for a sequel to the Great Depression.
Even if shipments resumed, and there is no indication of such (that I know of), with the time it would take for freight to make its way to consumers, not to mention the resulting congestion, it be long enough to cause serious trouble. I’d be surprised if the drepression isn’t already there, and the symptoms are just about to manifest
Yep, imports are an investment from importers/capitalists perspective. And under capitalism, investments are done with expectation of profit.
Really complex ideas here, really have to have some sympathy for Trump. Who could’ve thought the economy doesn’t like it when you just flip the tables and give everyone a middle finger?
If Trump doesn’t fold soon, we’ll be on track for a sequel to the Great Depression.
Just a few more weeks of this will cause enough trouble in the supply chains that even if Trump completely drops all tariffs to zero, there will be significant economic problems. It takes at least 2 weeks for a ship to come from China and that is assuming that everything is running smoothly.
If Trump doesn’t fold soon, we’ll be on track for a sequel to the Great Depression.
Even if us from other countries are affected, let it happen, I want to see this Western world cope and seethe about this
Burgerland used TANTRUM!
This shit’s going to take a while to fix, too.
it’s not gonna get fixed it’s just gonna find a new equilibrium
No ships is an equilibrium lol
Yea idk gow we got anything g resembling a pass last time but going forward now every other country is gonna understand any “official agreement” is completely useless less than 4 years from when it was made.
That’s not new, liberals have been tossing that one out for forever
The difference was, prior to now other countries were still operating under an assumed US hegemony so they responded accordingly
China isn’t bending the knee though, so that may not be the case for much longer
What a beautiful sight
So America is getting hit by embargoes it imposes on other countries but its self imposed
Something something fascism is Imperialism at home
I’m in danger
Trump must be the Horseman of Famine since he will starve his people out of treats
I was out at the store and things still felt relatively the same price wise. Guess that’s going to change soon.
I’ve noticed that the actual prices haven’t changed but all the stuff that used to be 4 or 5 bucks is still 4 or 5 bucks bur it’s “on sale” marked down from 7 or 8 bucks. And everyrhing is “on sale” my guess is these sales are gonna slowly dissappear and everything’s gonna be the higher price within 2 months.
This is a well established retail tactic to ease customers into price hikes. I remember Walgreens pulling this shit all the time when I worked there like 15 years ago.
When I worked at Lowes they would also increase the prices of appliances a couple months ahead of big sales
Most groceries are domestically produced, probably won’t be the first thing affected (although posters last week noticed cheaper soy/tofu prices due to the lack of export)
Soy face ascendent
Anecdotally, coffee was 10% higher this weekend over last week
If nothing is coming in that means no cabbage is coming in and I think that’s a worthy sacrifice.
My cabbages!
You’ve got the biggest cabbage in the world in the White House. How much cabbage do you need?
got his ass
There’s a dang crucifer in the white house!
uh oh
This wouldn’t be the time tariff shipments would arrive. These are pre tariff ships. And next month should start to show the real impact.
Would the tariffs cause ships to be rerouted? I have no idea how shipping works but i assume importers must be trying to get out of their contracts.
I don’t think that’s logical for the shippers. Way too many gears and unions to deal with to turn it to a different port.
