https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14419.htm

War started two years after COVID. Didn’t help, but didn’t cause it.

Price gouging happens when supply is short.  Because if you had other options, there’d be competition.  It’s all the same.

OMG are you that dense? Have you ever seen a supply/demand curve?

I legitimately would like to know what fascination trump has with tariffs. He’s clearly a “deal negotiator” and maybe thinks they give him leverage? All it takes is for his bluff to be called and the government to let prices go up.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/fiscal-policy-and-excess-inflation-during-covid-19-a-cross-country-view-20220715.html

You do realize that shortages CAUSE inflation right?

God, that reminds me. When everything really started to take off my CEO tasked me and a bunch of people at my company to do a deep dive into our supply chains. Our costs were spiraling way out of control, and we couldn’t price check the market fast enough to keep up. We wanted to figure out how much was just a cash…

No.  Can we dispense with this money printing fallacy.  The bloody Romans did it for over a 1000 years, funding war after war and immense infrastructure projects.   It’s not what took them down. 

Which admin was in charge of that printing & distribution of the money?

Raise prices THEN make the govt sign a contract requiring every department to purchase a fleet of your cars yearly, thats the DOGE experience coming soon!

Part of the problem is that they think Toyota is the one selling them their Camry. But it isn’t, it is a US-based corporate entity. That US-based entity both buys the imported goods from the manufacturer at wholesale price AND pays the tariff to the US government. The tariff makes each imported item cost the importer…

To be fair (and I do NOT believe one needs to be fair to Elmo or Tesla at this point), Canada is also flirting with the far-right. That should be worrying to us over here, as their largest trading partner. But insofar as Tesla is concerned, it could be thinking that there are a lot of MAGA-equivalent dipshits in…

Elon Musk is a straight up Nazi. If you’re still driving a Tesla, you’re saying you’re okay with Nazism. If you’re buying a Tesla, you’re saying you’re a straight up Nazi too.

Well about half of the US used to think EVs were hippie bullshit but suddenly thinks buying a Tesla is the best way to show loyalty to our Dear Leader. Musk should call the price increase The Orange-Noser Tax.

It blows my mind that anyone believes that tariffs aren’t paid by consumers. A tariff is just another tax increase, plain and simple...but it’s regressive. I guess the orange man has to find a way to pay for tax cuts for the top 1%.

Correct.  Who TF wants a Tesla?  POS product from POS CEO.

Jacking up the prices on cars hardly anyone wants to buy anymore in the first place is a bold strategy, Cotton... let’s see if it pays off for them.

Hold on, won’t the government of Canada just cover the cost of the price increases for their consumers?  That’s how I was told this works!!!

All of these dog-eating Haitian immigrants living in Ohio are going to crash the auto industry.  I guess that’s why Ford stock is down 20% in the last six months.