Eine Flutwelle des Wandels ist für die US -Wirtschaft auf dem Weg

Trump’s “tariff tsunami” hasn’t hit shore yet, but give it till June, then watch prices spike and jobs vanish.

Boyos, I can smell it on the air. A shit storm in brewin‘

A contemptible shit stain named Arlene Wexler started her question to another contemptible shit stain named Karoline Leavitt by saying “I can attest to the deportations in Florida — My Uber drivers finally speak English again, so thank you for that,” 

Your Uber driver speaks English because the truck drivers that the ports just laid off are flooding into the gig economy.

Late last year, I started developing a game, and I’ve been using Uber Eats to make ends meet while I do that. In the last few weeks, I’ve had to increase the amount of time I spend driving by 25-30%, to make the same amount of money. I’ve had to completely rearrange my schedule to make this work. From only working at night, to having to decide if turning on the air conditioning is worth the price of gas while waiting in hot parking lots all afternoon. All my plans go on the back burner now, and I’m beyond pissed about it.

Our store has started up ing prices already. And I mean everything in the goddam store

A skilled economic surfer might stand a chance against such a wave. Not me. I’m more likely to get pummeled and dragged across the reef and maytagged in the churn.

i’m actually excited that rural MAGA country is going to suffer due to their choices, sooner rather than later.

stock up on rice, beans, and canned meat.

yeah it is and people are not ready for it

Hell hath no fury like an inconvenienced American.

It’s coming and economically stupid Trump voters and the public who don’t follow these things at large have no idea the sea change that they are in for. China now has the upper hand and will use it to their advantage. The longer this drags out the worse it is going to be in ways most people can fully comprehend. The impacts are already being seen in Seattle and they’ll be less impactful on the East Coast but economically, it is going to be ugly come late May, early June.

I wonder what specific products will be the first to have shortages that create serious problems.

American consumers are not yet seeing much evidence of the drastic changes President Trump has made on trade. But they are on their way.

When the Covid pandemic hit, factories in China shut down and global shipping traffic slowed. Within a matter of a few weeks, products began disappearing from U.S. store shelves and American firms that depend on foreign materials were going out of business.

A similar trend is beginning to play out, but this time the catalyst is President Trump’s decision to raise tariffs on Chinese imports to a minimum of 145 percent, an amount so steep that much of the trade between the United States and China has ground to a halt. Fewer massive container ships have been plying the ocean between Chinese and American ports, and in the coming weeks, far fewer Chinese goods will arrive on American shores.

While high tariffs on Chinese products have been in place since early April, the availability of Chinese products and the price that consumers pay for them has not changed that much. But some companies are now starting to raise their prices. And experts say that the effects will become more and more obvious in the coming weeks, as a tidal wave of change stemming from canceled orders in Chinese factories works its way around the world to the United States.

The number of massive container ships carrying metal boxes of toys, furniture and other products departing China for the United States plummeted by about a third in April.

The reason consumers haven’t felt many of the effects yet is because it takes 20 to 40 days for a container ship to travel across the Pacific Ocean. It then takes another one to 10 days for Chinese goods to make their way by train or truck to various cities around the country, economists at Apollo Global Management wrote in a recent report. That means that the higher tariffs on China that went into effect at the beginning of April are just starting to result in a drop in the number of ships arriving at American ports, a trend that should intensify.

By late May or early June, consumers could start to see some empty shelves, and layoffs could occur for retailers and logistics industries. The major effects on the U.S. economy of shutting down trade with China will start to become apparent in the summer of 2025, when the United States might slip into a recession, said Torsten Slok, an economist at Apollo.

Guess it’s not that important since it’s behind a paywall

I don’t think people realize yet the total calamity of this yet. We import a lot of timber. That timber is used in construction. That is now tariffed so it costs 25% more. New construction buildings are going to cost more. BUT wait. That means the reconstruction cost is going up. So insurance costs are going to go up. Which means home owners are about to pay more in insurance. Renters breathe a sigh of relief. BUT wait. Those buildings are insured. So guess who absorbs that cost. Renters. Rent is going up too. That’s ONE industry. It’s a domino effect and it’s happening to everything. Like Hershey bars? Yeah that cocoa is taxed and so is the plastic to make the wrapper. Coffee lovers are probably going to go broke. Like rice? Actually rice is ok because most of the rice here is grown here. Beer! We import most of our hops and most of the aluminum for the cans. We’ve already seen it. A fucking 6 pack of Hamms tall boys went from 5.49 to 5.99 in 3 months.

Shits already bad. And it’s about to get much worse. As Americans we have to buy to survive. What happens when we can’t buy anymore? That’s what’s coming.

This country needs a complete reset. The GOP needs to go away and the dems also need a total overhaul with all the geriatric politicians retiring so a younger generation can come in and take the country forward. We are a joke with crumbling infrastructure, falling behind in green energy and innovation and public transportation. We need to put a stop to the 1% and go back to taxing them appropriately.

Number of ships from China is almost half in April 2025 compared to April 2024. It is only projected to be worse unless Cheeto get some senses

It will be a tsunami, but we are currently in the „Most people on the beach stand up realizing the water’s edge retreating rapidly. Many others have already started running to higher ground.‘ Phase.

The Mayor said he would bring jobs back to the town by allowing a mine to be opened that would run near the continental shelf. Most thought it was a dumb idea, but 99% of people with cursory knowledge of physical science said that it would only not work. It would make things exponentially worse.

The mine caused a collapse of a portion of the continental shelf nearest to the town 5 minutes ago.

The earthquake caused by the collapse shocked only the mayor and the people who believed him. Everyone else checked the time, let out a sigh, and said under their breath, „This is going to suck.“