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.