This Is How Dumb Ghost Really Is

[BoxofFrogs]

Oh, Trumpy Bear has the economy booming.
Denso is in the hole for $40 million this year so far because of Trumpy Bear's tariff's.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/news/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/business/store-closures-retail-bankruptcies/index.html

https://www.autonews.com/sales/sales-weakest-start-5-years

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...-worst-revenue-17-years-cloud-hits-air-pocket

 

[Dr. Curmudgeon]

Oh, Trumpy Bear has the economy booming.
Denso is in the hole for $40 million this year so far because of Trumpy Bear's tariff's.

https://gasprices.aaa.com/news/

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/16/business/store-closures-retail-bankruptcies/index.html

https://www.autonews.com/sales/sales-weakest-start-5-years

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019...-worst-revenue-17-years-cloud-hits-air-pocket

I think Amazon not Trump is responsible for store closings...New York and Miss AOC sure were stupid to turn Amazon away.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

The Doctor gets it.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Brick and mortar stores were falling on hard times while Trump was hosting a mindless TV show while inexplicably enjoying hefty TV ratings.

Auto sales might be slowing after coming off record years 2016, 2017, 2018.

Gasoline prices might be effected by demand.

Without tariffs there would be no trade negotiations. Stupid doesn't even start to describe our agreements with say South Korea (and others). President Obama signed our third "free" trade agreement with South Korea and assured us this one would finally work. Ho, ho, ho!!! The last I checked there's one Ford dealer (yes, ONE) in South Korea. There's 1500 Kia and Huyndia dealers in the United States. Now let's brag on the unmitigated brilliance of U. S. trade negotiators.

 

[BoxofFrogs]

I believe your NWO boy started this NAFTA chit.
George H.W. Bush
Again, Republicans don't wanna acknowledge that part of the story.
I'll agree with the Dr. on retail stores closing's but Ghost was the one who
made the remark that the economy was going great and it was all because
of Trump. We, just went another trillion in debt and everyone is acting like
everything is Business As Usual. No damn responsibility!
Trump wants to get rid of the debt ceiling? As i read once before,
The day will come that our grandchildren will curse the ground we walked on!
Be proud of that gentlemen! Be Proud!

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Jobless claims tumble to fresh 50 year lows. Drudge.

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Retail spending rebounds. Drudge.

 

[fsu939913]

Economy is booming. Trump has us rolling

 

[BoxofFrogs]

I am beginning to get skeptical about some of these numbers that
are being put out there and reported. Like i said before, i work in this
industry and see firsthand what comes across the docks and the port
over in Charleston and here in America it is somewhat stagnant and
globally it has flat out slowed down and decreased. The main revenue increase is from rate hikes but not from increased business. You can't
keep pumping trillions of dollars to prop up business and growth.
Supposedly there is progress being made in the American and
China trade talks so we'll have to play the wait and see approach.

As this article states:
“The other thing that we’re hearing from customers is that the warehouses are full,” Matthews said. “We’ve got a very late spring, and the typical restocking of spring merchandise did not show up in March as it has in past years.”

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/04/16/largest-us-trucking-company-details-u-turn-of-trucking-boom/

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Some very good points, Man Called Box. We also had a healthy increase in consumer spending in March. I can't remember the exact numbers. nail? We also had fresh 50 year low jobless claims for March.

China and the European Union now are in a down turn which will effect us. Our trade deficit in March lessened after a record February. Good news.

 

[IrishPokerDog]

I am beginning to get skeptical about some of these numbers that
are being put out there and reported. Like i said before, i work in this
industry and see firsthand what comes across the docks and the port
over in Charleston and here in America it is somewhat stagnant and
globally it has flat out slowed down and decreased. The main revenue increase is from rate hikes but not from increased business. You can't
keep pumping trillions of dollars to prop up business and growth.
Supposedly there is progress being made in the American and
China trade talks so we'll have to play the wait and see approach.

As this article states:
“The other thing that we’re hearing from customers is that the warehouses are full,” Matthews said. “We’ve got a very late spring, and the typical restocking of spring merchandise did not show up in March as it has in past years.”

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/04/16/largest-us-trucking-company-details-u-turn-of-trucking-boom/

Here in the mid south it’s busy as hell; I’ve got a huge new clinic on the boards, a new bourbon distillery, a pharma plant renovation in the fall, and the potential of a 800,000 sq.ft bottling plant brand new .... and maybe a hemp plant expansion

I thought after the new clinic budgeted an additional $330,000 just for steel cost increases due to the new tariffs, I’d see things slow down - not so much

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

Central and North Texas is boom land. Heck, Texas is boomsville.

 

[Ncgatr1]

Let’s go back to 0.8% GDP