Red Mosquito

Remember when The Onion was funny?

I think we all took a kick in the crotch today..

2016-2017 playbook incoming

fear of trump tariffs -> tariffs considered inflationary -> market freaks (Fed already adjusting fwd dot plot adjustments based on trump policy expectations)

then trump in office, with Bessent, weakens the USD -> market takes off again

should be frothy by summertime

Yeah hold the line

Hopefully my mom didn’t take like $70k out of the market and plop it into her savings account like last time Trump was President.

the Fed will always inevitably have to print money and make the number go up

doug rr wrote:I think we all took a kick in the crotch today..

Amazing timing right before the Christmas shopping rush and given the pending wave of Q1 layoffs

96583UP wrote:2016-2017 playbook incoming

fear of trump tariffs -> tariffs considered inflationary -> market freaks (Fed already adjusting fwd dot plot adjustments based on trump policy expectations)

then trump in office, with Bessent, weakens the USD -> market takes off again

should be frothy by summertime

Hopefully Trump continues to care more about the stock market than he should. Might be the only chance of reining in some of his worst (economic) policy ideas.

Just read that DOGE wants to get rid of the penny. I support this!

No I just think coins are pointless in this day and age.

tragabigzanda wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:No I just think coins are pointless in this day and age.

How else are you going to tip the paper boy

My wife never seems to have this issue

E.H. Ruddock wrote:No I just think coins are pointless in this day and age.

I always heard that charities receive a lot of pennies, but I'm not sure how true that is today.

tragabigzanda wrote:Is America still a nation of small businesses?
Small businesses are a pillar of the American narrative, but are they still a pillar of the American economy? The Department of Data runs the numbers.

https://wapo.st/4hmIBgx

I wanted to read that but I'm not subscribing to anything else. My Inbox is enough of a nightmare already.

I miss seeing corner deli's around the suburbs here. Now its all supermarkets and chains.

I guess I shouldn't be a hypocrite though - my exit plan is to sell up my little practice to one of the big players in a few years too.

tragabigzanda wrote:Well the short answer is no; other than restaurants which continue to thrive along an average seven year lifecycle, virtually every other industry is being acquired by private equity or large incumbent corporations.

Which can be painful for a lot of employees. Overnight culture shift, generous incentives gone and constantly changing goals/metrics as the purse strings tighten, disorienting restructuring. I’ve been through it before as middle management, and you end up spending a lot of your time reassuring people.