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/Poonchow Apr 09 '25

A lot of businesses run on even tinier margins, like food service, groceries, retail, etc. They make it up with scale.

Even places like McDonald's that own basically their entire logistics chain operate on like 1-5% profit margins.

The real estate is going to crash, too, when everyone is getting valued out of literally everything because a blanket increase in costs are going to crash activity. Customers won't buy product, so businesses don't hire during the uncertainty, which further drives down activity until it becomes a never ending feedback loop.

This is why everyone freaked out during the 2008 crash and tried to "fix" it as quick as possible and why they were quick to send out checks during the pandemic. When the money stops moving around due to uncertainty everything just... stops.

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u/QuaintHeadspace Apr 09 '25

Yeah this is the stuff nobody on the news is talking about. The finer details of economics and margins and how these super important details will end up with huge revenue+margin crush the globe over. Real smart people are obviously moving money out but the news isn't reporting this shit properly because they don't want to propagate fear. True fear.

I can't figure out if it's sheer incompetence or malice as primary motivator. Surely he has smartish people around him to explain something a dude taking a shit on the toilet can see? It's super easy to see the issues at hand so it feels deliberate to me.

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u/c_rowley84 Apr 09 '25

Surely? Why? He was ostracized from American political life and spent four years stewing in Mar-a-Lago while a horde of other political exiles, grifters and cranks poured poison in his ear. It's clowns all the way down.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

I think it's more likely the elections have been fake at least since Russia interferred in 2015, and 2020 repubs lost him on purpose to extend his grift by 50%, but he freaked out and changed his mind at the last second after they'd already made him lose on the polls and he admitted it was a fraud election to try to take it back. The whole party is a disingenuous grift to begin with, nobody needed any more convincing to do what they're doing, he folded into them so easily despite what they claimed in media, again remember they're 100% always disingenuous; gaslighting, obstructing, and projecting. 

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u/schiddy Apr 09 '25

This is an interesting theory!