sacrebel.bsky.social
🏴🇺🇸🇵🇹 Scottish former California Tech Engineer now retired to Portugal
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Hi Inês, yes I used skyfeed. I use last 3 hours as input then I added a search for UK and variants of UK and major cities. I add in posts from a couple of lists for journalists and news sources from UK then I use HN Ranking with gravity of 4 to get them sorted.
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This is only true because the exporting country isn't paying the tariffs (as he said they would) and the companies importing aren't eating the tariffs as a cost of doing business (like he says they should). Weird how anyone with a brain knew this is what happens when you impose import tariffs....
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We need YPVA (Young Punk Von Alten) graffiti all around your routes in Boise so these kids get it!!!
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Dick Campbell - similar personality and longevity just in lower leagues - xcancel.com/contextdick?...
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You guys really need to get Amber Ruffin to join and let her rip on the current occupant!!!!!
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Since the early 90s I've always described British Indian restaurant food as westernised Indian food - Indian flavours adjusted for Western tastes...
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So if they aren't selling cars I assume that means they can't sell carbon credits either so its a double edged punishment for the bottom line!!!!
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Ivan who???
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Explains why after years of screwing around a US LNG ship turned up out of the blue at Sines in Portugal last week....
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These idiots are all about distraction.....better this than discussing the cost of tariffs or the fact they seem to be ready to abandon Ukraine because Russia isn't bowing down to the clown...
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Vance opened his mouth, Vance is lying.
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snake oil salesman doing what he does....
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When buying houses people avoid PG&E areas as it adds $2-3000 per year in utility bills! PG&E also drives people to home solar!!!
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PG&E is in the surrounding county and with profit and AC needs electric bills are triple the city rates. The challenge is SMUD built the infrastructure over last century and has huge hydro and now solar sources, replacing PG&E elsewhere would require buying their infrastructure and power plants...
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My local electric company was a community owned non profit so acted like a private company but with no traditional shareholders. www.smud.org/Corporate/Ab...
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ICE is taking over the island!!!
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In the US some cities have private electric companies that are owned by the city....they have some of the cheapest electricity in the country but avoid the issues with outright nationalisation.
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Not that I know your situation but is surgery only available in US, I know rehab would be trickier away from home but cost of surgery is typically 50% in Western Europe, 20% in Turkey or Thailand, 15% in Mexico. I understand there are risks in going overseas but if it means you can walk...
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standard 60 votes so at least 7 democrats would need to vote for it
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It still needs 60 votes in Senate so as long as only a few Democrats support it, it will fail.
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Some companies may absorb some margin but they will be investing more in product inventory so ROI will drop for investors which doesn't usually go over well!
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You are assuming the retail price will be previous retail+tariff.
The formula is (import price + import/retail margin %) + sales tax %
I've seen 30-50% as margin & 5-8% as sales tax but all things being equal a 10% rise in import price results in a 10% rise in retail price.
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But if you got the 10 minute heads up of the 90 day pause you could have made 10x that.....corrupt bastards.....
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And every low cost item on amazon.com triples in price....
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Oops I used $571 instead of $520 in current price - it should be $551 total not $605...
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($400 + 30%) + ~6% = $605 paid (not sure how wired got $571, without sales tax it is $520)
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($795 + 30%) + ~6% = $1095 paid NOT $966
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Why would the importer and any retailer reduce their margins - the idea they tie up more in inventory without charging the standard mark up is falsely reducing the new price. A doubling of the cost will double the price and sales tax is also doubled as it is on final price.
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Funny clip but the sad part is once again Lutnick is lying. California ships significant quantities of rice to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan....
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Chinese crap like iPhones and Nike shoes???
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Pretty simple - he is a 21st century snake oil salesman...
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Rich people who like tax cuts, knuckledraggers who hate non white, non straight, non males, low intelligence people who believed headline lies in right wing media and independents who were too racist and sexist to vote for a black female president over a conspiracy theorist junkie like RFK Jr...
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Retail prices will go up by much more than the tariff unless importers and retailers slash their margins....a $10 tariff increase creates a $35 increase in retail price of a ~$100 shoe...
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Kings aren't terrible.....yet.....
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I wrote a guide for someone who wanted to transition from twitter articles, hopefully useful! whtwnd.com/sacrebel.bsk...
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Setup your account on whtwnd.com and you can blog and share your adventures on bluesky!
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Fair comment but all the other recent crashes had major world events drive them (covid, banking crisis) not government policy. This week was driven by a moron.
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Someone figured out they are the trade deficit divided by the exports in to the US so absolutely nothing to do with tariffs and all about trade deficits....