If someone literally gave me a Tesla, I'd just put up for sale (at fire sale numbers) to get rid of it.
It's an absolutely toxic brand image to be associated with any longer.
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iPhones Could Cost Up to $2,300 in the U.S. Due to Tariffs, Analyst Says
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If someone literally gave me a Tesla, I'd just put up for sale (at fire sale numbers) to get rid of it.
It's an absolutely toxic brand image to be associated with any longer.
How much are you paying for that Honda, if you don't mind me asking?
And that is why Putin’s pet name for tRUMP is Agent Orange.
Officially on file at Lubyanka as "Krasnov"
These estimates always ignore two things:
1) Apple already makes huge profit margins, literally the best in the industry.
2) They are greedy, they are already charging as much as they think they can get away with. If they could charge $2400, they already would be.
Basically their estimate is "to maintain their margins, this is what they would have to charge." But why assume they will just maintain their margins, *that's why the stock is down 15%*. No one who actually has skin in the game is assuming that.
Don't get me wrong, prices will go up, but I would bet virtually anything even if the full 54% is ever applied, prices won't increase nearly that much. Apple's margins will absorb a great deal of it. Don't panic on Apple's behalf.
What I find hilarious, it's the same poor reasoning the other side uses about minimum wage. No, just doubling the wage of the cashier doesn't double the price of a Big Mac. And no, just adding a 50% tariff doesn't increase the price of an iPhone 50%. Both are a stupid oversimplification.
1) Apple already makes huge profit margins, literally the best in the industry.
2) They are greedy, they are already charging as much as they think they can get away with. If they could charge $2400, they already would be.
Basically their estimate is "to maintain their margins, this is what they would have to charge." But why assume they will just maintain their margins, *that's why the stock is down 15%*. No one who actually has skin in the game is assuming that.
Don't get me wrong, prices will go up, but I would bet virtually anything even if the full 54% is ever applied, prices won't increase nearly that much. Apple's margins will absorb a great deal of it. Don't panic on Apple's behalf.
What I find hilarious, it's the same poor reasoning the other side uses about minimum wage. No, just doubling the wage of the cashier doesn't double the price of a Big Mac. And no, just adding a 50% tariff doesn't increase the price of an iPhone 50%. Both are a stupid oversimplification.
Makes it worth flying to Canada or Mexico, buying a phone there and sneaking it in.
Xi Jinping, Mark Carney, Ursula Von de Leyen, Putin, King Penguin, are just a few who've thrown the MAGA script into the dustbin. Diplomats across the globe are in huddles. What happens when the entire school stands up to the bully?
I couldn’t give a hoot about that. My current car is a Tesla and my next car will be a Tesla. To each their own personal views and ymmv. I can’t relate to that line of thinking.
I never bought products based on the ceo. They come and go.
Same where I live, egg prizes (among other products) have gone a bit down.
With that said, I am opposed to this administration’s tariff plans. I could understand the motivation behind forcing México and Canada to do his bidding, but what is the end game here? Everything is going to increase in price and the consumer will pay for it.
Manufacturing plants are not going to pop out magically everywhere. He could do this on a per-sector basis like he did to help the American steel industry, but not on whole set of products from an entire group of countries.
I wouldn't call it "greedy", it's what the market can bear. With so many options, some people still "choose" Apple products. It says more about us who buy their products than apple being "greedy"
You probably won’t need to. These tariffs are a gift for smugglers importing illegally.
No one is giving you a Tesla so you don't have to worry about that. If Tesla is such a toxic brand then why is 87.2% owned by companies funding 401k's.
And if you had some geographical knowledge you would understand why it wouldn't work for Norfolk Island. It doesn't have a proper port. They have to use old whaleboats to get close enough to a jetty if the wind is favourable enough.
Sorry that happened. German company or foreign subsidiary? What industry?
Every weekend at the Costco here in Vancouver Canada, I see tons of cars from America and I've read egg smuggling has increased https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7486369
People are just going to smuggle iPhones now.
No. I'll highlight the Heard and MacDonald Islands tariff set at 10%. It's population of zero people only has penguins, so my theory is that penguin eggs might be being sold to the US... now likely at a higher price once imported.
Do Americans realise countries around the globe have had enough of them?
There is a real anti-American sentiment at the moment.
There is a real anti-American sentiment at the moment.
Wholesale prices of eggs are down, not prices for the end users buying from the grocery stores.
“Passing on costs to consumers” is a myth, a PR-friendly version of strategic pricing. Profitable companies don’t price based on cost, they price based on what they think you’ll tolerate. Always.
When companies coordinate or move in lockstep, especially in B2B, it’s not “cost pressure”, it’s price fixing. That’s a real crime. It’s surprisingly common. People go to jail for it.
In consumer markets, we soften the language and act like it’s just economics happening to us. It’s not. It’s choices and narratives.
When companies coordinate or move in lockstep, especially in B2B, it’s not “cost pressure”, it’s price fixing. That’s a real crime. It’s surprisingly common. People go to jail for it.
In consumer markets, we soften the language and act like it’s just economics happening to us. It’s not. It’s choices and narratives.
At least half of us do, yes
So, you'd happily have purchased one of Hitlers paintings when he was in power, if you'd have liked the art?
Blaming all Americans for this is pure prejudice and doesn't help the issues. Millions of us did everything legally possible to prevent this.
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