Nomination - article of the month.  Nice job.

Yes. However, consider that inertia of the domestic or global economies is vast - much like how the announcements of the ‘fed raising or lowering interest rates’ works. In these massive global markets, the lag is roughly 9 months, and by the time a fed announcement is made, the actual action has already taken place…

there’s an impending recession in 19 or 20 regardless. the bubble we’re in right now is filled with the smoke from a hundred million doobies.  has nothing to do with tariffs - cannot be made worse or better by anything a politician of any country does.

now we’re getting somewhere - a ‘tariff’ in this context is a negotiating tool.  In that it can be done and undone in an hour is the beauty of using ‘tariffs’ as a negotiating tool.  The only objective really being to get to a real conversation, and stop lying to ourselves and each other about what is happening in the…

well said, Yutaa

You’re not wrong in that statistic - but we’re talking about jobs in this case. Manufacturing as a percent to GDP has kept pace overall, and is currently quite high in relative terms. Using that logic, we can easily afford a certain percentage of risk in terms of Manufacturing output in the short term.

what’s funny is that most of these folks are apparently unaware of the surprising number of hipster millenial youtubers who vlog this exact lifestyle as ‘woke’ individuals.

the level of ignorance (not a slur - meaning lack of knowledge) of this author and those like her are truly astounding.  they wil grow up one day like all kids do.

I am an Economist, in fact. The mere fact that you didn’t understand what I wrote is proof you are not.

well, Free Trade agreements cost us jobs, and here we sit in our service economy eaten alive by the Chinese. If the opposite approach also costs jobs, we have a null solution situation. The calculus on this is all politics, kids.

I read this whole article wondering who is the bonehead that wrote it. Then got to the comments, and scrolled back up. Yep.  The worst writer in all of Jalopville. Please be gone to a blog more suited to your natural audience, and quit wasting our time with garbage like this.

Mack Hogan is on point. The answer is an ‘old man’ car. I would lean Town Car because unlike the Buick, it will survive even the Zombie Apocalypse, and you can fix or replace anything on it with the cheapest set of “Mom Tools” from Harbor Freight. Sure, you gotta ask yourself where the hell is he gonna park it - but…

2008 ish - but if you run more alcohol, the mileage is actually worse. like a third worse. high alcohol fuel is rarely if ever cheap enough to overcome the lower energy potential (mileage)

Town Car L was only available for Livery - the extra few inches are really really nice. A former Livery L even with 250-300K “can” be a good buy - they’re usually very clean and well maintained. These ‘age out’ before they wear out - (cities have regulations about how old a livery car can be)

town car is the same money and wayyyy nicer. that’s what I did anyway - the GM is too much of a ‘tweener’ and the leather seats are hard.

worst case Ontario, those greasy bastards will get caught. doing it myself.

Town Car seats bolt right in - Mustang seats are almost as easy.

you can sell those full wheel covers for more than it will cost to get the chrome centers....

It’s NP (asking price). There’s some room to play there - but like anything in the sub-$5k range for me - it is to a large degree a question of “How’s the tires?” If it needs 4 new ones right now, the price comes down a grand. A grand in this case is 25% of the ask.

these are surprisingly efficient on gas - if you try even a little bit. Not so much if you don’t.