Even in stagflation, corps will do well - they are sitting on mountains of debt - those that globalized will benefit from incredible triage in labor rates around the world.
Habeeb in india is now nearly 20% cheaper to employ...
Stagflation makes US employees even MORE expensive - corps cant (or wont) afford; so more work will be shipped overseas, more ppl in america will fall behind.
US becomes more of an empty shell, 2 societies - one at the top making all the important decisions where labor will be employed and factories will be built and the other barely holding on
Nearly every corporation is doing same thing - taking on debt, buying back stonk- here is $UNH
$LOW
$AAPL
$GE is an interesting study - they are paying DOWN debt AND retiring shares....this might be set to explode higher next earnings....
$WMT is doing it
$TGT is doing it
But heres the problem - Trump had the best intentions when he cut corporate taxes; He then imposed HI import tarrifs on china - the idea - coerce corporations to invest domestically.
"Oz - then why are you leading with a picture of your cat?"
Cause her belief system is exactly like that of the USD and the US government - she thinks she is the center of the universe and everything revolves around her...
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Oil going up in price is deflationary - if people are spending all their money on fuel, they arent buying anything else.
But US is an oil producer - the biggest oil producer on the planet right now actually....and everyone - especially europe - needs it.
After poot invaded ukraine, US set in motion price controls + money printing to fight that deflationary force.
It was a plan that biden and G7 hoped would end the war quickly, starve russia of revenue, and G7 would come out on top.
As ya'll shop in the American capitalist system that's better than every other system, yet, can't seem to produce a reliable supply of eggs...and when they are available, they are hyper expensive...
It is 1USD = 25000 vnd.
Here's Vietnam and a few prices of other things:
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