Boris
Beach Bum
Good evening. 44° and raining. Supposed to be quite nasty tomorrow. We got mostly everything pressing done today, including a full tank of gas in the truck.
Wonder how she would make out at QuikCheck? Almost everything including checkout is self serve. That would be the ultimate battle, a convenience store run by Artificial Intelligence and a customer with no apparent intelligence.
Tomorrow, may well be a good day for bargain hunting on Wall Street. Selloff is too broad to be a reaction to Tariffs. Yesterday's excuse for a bigger drop was higher interest rates...bankers don't like paying for the money they use to make money either...Bonds that tanked yesterday, rallied today. Tomorrows excuse might be???
The 2007-2014 great Recession, which was actually much worse economically than the Great Depression, was caused in part by Free Trade, and abnormally low interest rates. Since we are still working through the effects of this recession, the theory has not made it into Economics Text Books, and still affects markets.
Free Trade is a two way street. The proposed tariffs are in response to dumping, which is not exactly in the spirit of free trade.
Curt: We only did the ATM, and ShopRite today, plus gas for the Truck. The rest can wait for next week, including my haircut. You mentioned Cheese steak, and caused me to drool. Have to take a ride and get one, it's been too long.
Have a good evening.
Woman in front of me at Sheetz: Can I have a quarter strength, decaf, soy cappuccino, with less foam, no chocolate dusting, two marshmallows on the side, six sugars, and can I have it heated to eighty degrees, please?
Wonder how she would make out at QuikCheck? Almost everything including checkout is self serve. That would be the ultimate battle, a convenience store run by Artificial Intelligence and a customer with no apparent intelligence.
Investors don't like tariffs, and the President talked about that today. Tariffs are not a free market solution to any problem. Protective tariffs played a role in causing the Great Depression of the 1930's.
Tomorrow, may well be a good day for bargain hunting on Wall Street. Selloff is too broad to be a reaction to Tariffs. Yesterday's excuse for a bigger drop was higher interest rates...bankers don't like paying for the money they use to make money either...Bonds that tanked yesterday, rallied today. Tomorrows excuse might be???
The 2007-2014 great Recession, which was actually much worse economically than the Great Depression, was caused in part by Free Trade, and abnormally low interest rates. Since we are still working through the effects of this recession, the theory has not made it into Economics Text Books, and still affects markets.
Free Trade is a two way street. The proposed tariffs are in response to dumping, which is not exactly in the spirit of free trade.
Well we went to 3 grocery stores today (sales) then met a friend for lunch at a local cheese steak shop and then came home. Still have to go to Wally World tomorrow before I get my haircut.
Curt: We only did the ATM, and ShopRite today, plus gas for the Truck. The rest can wait for next week, including my haircut. You mentioned Cheese steak, and caused me to drool. Have to take a ride and get one, it's been too long.
Have a good evening.
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