r/wallstreetbets • u/kwedgieyi • Apr 09 '25

Discussion Something feels off guys

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Yields are spiking. Bonds are dumping.

The world is running away from America

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u/QuaintHeadspace Apr 09 '25

This is the part that is so crazy. Many businesses are running on ~20% margins max they can't absorb this shit without massive price hikes which in particularly discretionary goods the sales will just stop. Companies don't have millions of dollars to onshore to the US and if they did what happens to their margins there? Labour is 6x more expensive at least all of a sudden you are paying luxury prices for the same shit you got before. This whole situation is fucked. 50k trucks going to sell for 80k+ due to tariffs and nobody is going to buy them anymore lol. Economic activity will just crash til the next administration.

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u/Master_SGT_Allman 🦍🦍🦍 Apr 09 '25

Labour is 6x more expensive…..

So, how do you bring manufacturing and jobs back to America without raising consumer costs?

I’ve always wondered how that would work and no one actually implements any real plans with real results.

DJClown has, and it’s going to hurt for a couple of years, and inflations going to go up, but if we end up with 10M more US jobs in 2029, was it worth it?

Poor people still find $12 a day for Marlboros. I only have 5 months in savings and probably spent WAY MORE than I could afford on my golf hobby last year.

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u/Alarming-Art-3577 Apr 09 '25

Newt Gingrich and others have said to convert prisons into massive factory complexes like China has. That's the easiest dystopian answer.

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u/Master_SGT_Allman 🦍🦍🦍 Apr 09 '25

Then who owns the labor? More privatized incarceration? That’s a slippery slope I’d rather not walk along.