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 $UNH
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$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.
If you go to the local market the sparkly has a known value.
Say the local value is 100 schmeckels.
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But one day you decide to travel to country Zenoblob.
In Zenoblob that sparkly is HIGHLY desired.
You can break of just a tiny bit of the sparkly and with it you can exchange that tiny bit for the best restaurants, the best transportation, the best hotels and still have a lot of sparkly left over.
You go home thinking you are a genius so you start looking for more sparkly.
You find another chunk of sparkly and this year you try the same thing again.