You are only thinking short term. The increased buying power of those employees would create a greater demand in the economy. Also, those costs would not create inflation on a 1:1 ratio. This has been proven many, many times already.

2nd Gear:

No, it fucking isn’t. A long standing tradition of almost all except one (the current) administration is at least justify with factual evidence that enacted policies are good for citizens. This one just makes shit up on the fly (10% tax cuts any day y’all!) and then has to write something on a bar napkin in hopes of…

This is an unwinnable argument. I’ll just say that both sides are likely not the same. If there are ten examples of bad things Republicans did and 2 examples of Democrats being bad, Republicans will talk up those two things as if they were treason and simply not mention the 10 things they did wrong. Of course there…

“I am FOR the tax cuts. I also think its fucking ridiculous that it wasn’t accompanied by a reduction in federal spending. I cared before, I still care.”

Yeah both sides, very fine people blah blah blah

Worse than that. The high student might accidentally learn something once in a while. This whole administration is made up of the students coasting by on legacy who aggressively don’t give a fuck because their dad is just going to give them a VP of Sales job after graduation anyways. 

This is an absolute shock that the Trump administration would try to implement any policy based on claims they can’t verify. Total shock.

Why does every report from this administration read like it was made by a high college student who forgot the assignment was due?

If you take inflation into account, then most cars really are about the same price as they were back in the 80's and 90's for a similar trim level. On top of that, you’re getting much more car for your money now. What you don’t see much anymore are the stripper models that cheap as dirt.

Inflation raised prices.

Good news for you then. The IMO low sulfur regulations take effect in January 2020. This will make ships burn low sulfur fuel, down to 0.5% sulfur by weight from the current limit of 3.5%, or else install scrubbers to reduce their emissions to the equivalent of the low sulfur fuel emissions. Ships operating in…

The answer is minivan. It’s always minivan. Just that some people refuse to accept it. You’re hauling people and stuff every day—why ignore the very best vehicle for that purpose?

And yet, so many people are on this post claiming corporate accounting is basic arithmetic.  And they don’t even understand depreciation.  Thanks, Internet! ;)

Well if “infotainment” problems get the downgrades I really don’t give a tinker’s damn. I want to know about the engine, trans etc that really matter.  (Side note..  why do we have all this silly shit in our vehicles anyways?)

To be fair, CR’s methodology has pretty much always been a mix of the reasonable and the insane. I remember WAY back in the day being surprised that our family car (a fun little late-70s Scirocco) got dinged by CR because the non-power windows took one or two more cranks to close than similar cars tested.

1st Gear: I cannot recommend enough that everyone goes and watches Dirty Money on Netflix. If you can only be bothered to watch one episode, then watch the Third: Drug Short. It is eye opening how outrageously stupid prominent investors can be. I still want Tesla to succeed, but their stock price is built way more on…

1st Gear: Maybe he changed his mind because of the drop in stock price and thinks his short position is played out. Now moves into a buy position, creates some positive news ahead of an expected positive report, and voila! He makes a boat load of money.

Not quite a good example.  You can ramp up the number of burgers you cook.  It’s hard to ramp up steel output as fast.  This inelasticity of supply means significantly higher prices, which is what we’ve seen in domestic steel spot prices.

Trump is not good at business. His chief business skill is getting lenders so deeply invested in him that they cannot afford to let him fail, and then using that borrowed monetary clout to overwhelm competitors.  And when it falls through, his next big business skill saves his ass - that of insulating himself…