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WSJ: Trump's Tariffs are Causing a Manufacturing Boom in USA #MAGA
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:02 AM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome U.S. Manufacturing Is in Retreat and Trump’s Tariffs Aren’t Helping Levies on imports were supposed to bring back a golden age of U.S. manufacturing. They haven’t worked, so far. By David Uberti Follow Feb. 2, 2026 9:00 pm ET
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Workers inside a Ford production center with cars on an assembly line. Auto and chip makers have cut tens of thousands of workers over the past year. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters The manufacturing boom President Trump promised would usher in a golden age for America is going in reverse. After years of economic interventions by the Trump and Biden administrations, fewer Americans work in manufacturing than any point since the pandemic ended.
Manufacturers shed workers in each of the eight months after Trump unveiled “Liberation Day” tariffs, according to federal figures, extending a contraction that has seen more than 200,000 roles disappear since 2023.
An index of factory activity tracked by the Institute for Supply Management shrunk in 26 straight months through December, but showed a January uptick in new orders and production that surprised analysts. The Census Bureau estimates that manufacturing construction spending, which surged with Biden-era funding for chips and renewable energy, fell in each of Trump’s first nine months in office.
The gradual slowdown is in some ways a continuation of decadeslong trends that pulled factory jobs overseas and helped empty out Midwestern cities. In an industry where capital plans and construction timelines extend years into the future, turnarounds also don’t happen overnight.
Most since 2008 2019 '20 '25 11.2 11.4 11.6 11.8 12.0 12.2 12.4 12.6 12.8 13.0 million In November, the Federal Reserve slashed estimates for overall U.S. output since the pandemic in an annual revision to metrics for industrial production.
“We never got all the way back” from the pandemic, said Josh Lehner, a U.S. economist at SGH Macro Advisors.
While auto and chip makers have cut tens of thousands of workers over the past year, stable layoff rates across the sector suggest that the jobs pullback is gradual.
Lehner and other economists also say there are signs output has stabilized, if not inched higher, though gains in efficiency could limit the number of new jobs. A White House spokesman noted that manufacturing productivity ticked upward in recent quarters and that workers’ wage hikes outpaced inflation over the past year.
In the long term, tariffs could achieve their desired effect of making some manufacturers more competitive with overseas producers. Economists believe lower interest rates and deregulation could also provide support. But in the shorter run, tariffs have boosted many companies’ costs on materials sourced abroad, pushing firms that buy foreign parts to raise prices or scramble for supplies.
The White House’s stop-and-start policymaking—Trump threatened new tariffs on Europe, Canada and South Korea in recent weeks—has also led to what many executives view as a lost year for investment. The possibility the Supreme Court could nullify some import taxes has added to the uncertainty.
At the same time, China and others have continued pumping out exports despite tariffs, pushing down prices in global markets where U.S. manufacturers are struggling to compete.
“There’s very little in our product portfolio that has benefited from tariffs,” said H.O. Woltz III, chief executive of North Carolina-based Insteel Industries.
With tariffs on foreign steel doubled to 50% this year, Insteel has increasingly struggled to get from U.S. suppliers the metal it shapes into wire that reinforces concrete infrastructure, such as the Gordie Howe bridge, a major trade crossing that will soon connect Detroit to Canada. Instead, Insteel has at times turned to tariffed imports from Algeria, India and elsewhere when there weren’t enough American supplies to go around.
“Our growth today could be compromised by the dearth of [domestic] raw material available to us,” Woltz said.
Monthly total Six-month moving average 2016 '20 '25 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 million In the trucking industry, a yearslong postpandemic slide has dinged firms such as metal-component maker NN. The Charlotte, N.C.,-based company, which runs 23 plants in six countries, trimmed its U.S. workforce in recent years to compete with low-cost factories abroad, as well as in response to slowing growth in electric-vehicle demand.
CEO Harold Bevis believes tariffs will ultimately benefit NN by curbing Chinese competition for precision parts that appear in steering systems, audiovisual controls and more. But meanwhile, import taxes have helped push up costs for steel and aluminum, adding to pressures from soaring market prices for the gold and silver NN uses in some products.
That has squeezed how much cash the firm has to invest in new, potentially lucrative sectors such as data centers and electrical equipment.
“So you take a hit,” Bevis said. NN is trying to recoup costs by raising prices in subsequent orders.
Bevis said business has accelerated while Ford and GM, which recently took multibillion-dollar write-downs on their EV businesses, have pushed for domestic parts. As NN evaluates where to expand manufacturing for the auto business, Bevis warned places such as Michigan and Massachusetts are still a hard sell compared with Mexico, where many products remain tariff-free through a trade deal.
Investing to supply the auto market in China—home to three NN factories—is also a safer bet than building out its footprint stateside.
Pointing to that country’s parallel push to consolidate auto supply chains within its borders, Bevis said, “They are doing it at a way faster pace than the U.S.”
Nominal Inflation-adjusted 2008 '10 '15 '20 '25 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 $275 billion a year Trump has taken other measures to try to jump-start the manufacturing sector. He muscled trading partners such as Japan and South Korea into deals that include pledges to invest hundreds of billions in the U.S. Firms such as Apple, TSMC and AstraZeneca have announced massive projects that could create thousands of manufacturing jobs.
Administration officials say the long-term vision is to make industries self-sufficient. The timeline for investments is often years, muddling the near-term outlook for manufacturing.
“I don’t know when all of this money is going to kick in,” Trump said in a December interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Analysts say that new investments will likely focus on the robotic tools and artificial-intelligence components that have captivated Wall Street, meaning a surge in new, permanent factory jobs is less likely. Some sectors of the economy are also still lagging behind after years of elevated inflation and borrowing costs, which has rippled down to certain types of manufacturing.
“If people aren’t buying houses, they aren’t buying furniture,” said Meganne Wecker, chief executive of Skyline Furniture Manufacturing outside of Chicago.
Skyline, a family owned business since 1946, was early to e-commerce and began sourcing metals supplies domestically in 2018.
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But tariffs still hit hardwood from Vietnam and textiles from India and China. Prices rose. Wecker doesn’t fear direct impacts on Skyline so much as she does weakened suppliers and retailers.
“The whole industry is sort of fragile,” she said of the furniture sector, adding that tariff uncertainty has dampened the outlook for new domestic production. “I don’t know anyone who is confident putting that investment in to maybe only make it a couple years.”
Some investors believe interest-rate cuts and stimulative fiscal policy should help the economy grow faster this year.
“The biggest factor overall in how manufacturing is doing is how our economy is doing. There’s no getting away from that,” said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, which supports tariffs on steel and many Chinese products. “It’s way too early to tell what the new normal is because we’ve just exited the roller-coaster ride.” |
Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:07 AM Author: ,.,....,.,.,.,:,,:,...,:::,,...,:,.,.:...,:.::,. A lot of inputs for manufactured goods like chemicals from China are subject to 50% tariff. No way a factory dependent on sourcing chemicals can stay in business with tariffs that high. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643202) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:08 AM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome oh wow shocked the veddy stable genius and his brillant team didnt think this thru. they literalyl are tariffing foreign steel 50% because u can magically make enough steel of all types and qualities in the US overnight (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643203) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:47 AM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, The tariffs are fucking retarded
Complete braindead morons like GunneratTTT who are huge tariff stans have been silent for months |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:52 AM Author: .,.,.,.,.,...,.,,.,,.....,.,..,.,,...,.,.,,...,. 🚨🚨🚨 BROWNOID COOE 🚨🚨🚨 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643236) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:52 AM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., It hasn't worked after less than a year so it must be a bad idea. Never mind a lot of these people want the US to be dependent on imports (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643239) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:55 AM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, How long will tariffs take to "work" and why will they take that long?
How do factories in the US cope with higher input costs under tariffs? |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:56 AM Author: Die Hard 2: Die Harder Make their own chemicals duh (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643248) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:20 AM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., You want to decrease our dependence on China it's going to take time and people like the writers of this article or their backers will fight it every step of the way regardless of whether it's good for the country or not (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643509) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:39 AM Author: (antisemite) Nothing decreases our dependence on China quite like slapping massive tariffs on non-China friendly countries (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643570) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:42 PM Author: Noah Tannenbaum (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644135) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:43 PM Author: LathamTouchedMe (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644140) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 9:24 AM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome yes, its best to just wait 5-10 years with the high tariffs in place and im sure the US will become china and not 1960's socialist license raj india
protectionism and tariffs always work! just look at cuba and zimbabwe |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:41 AM Author: do you think i am retarded, . ? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643572) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:41 AM Author: (antisemite) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643573) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:01 AM Author: .,..,,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,..,.., We need to let this get to zero to know for sure. If you disagree you’re a communist. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643461) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 8:56 AM Author: space kike What else did the jewish paper say today (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643246) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 9:43 AM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad I am intrigued by the lack of willingness to contemplate alternative futures than the status quo. And it must be admitted that the status quo of the last 30 years has been abysmal for the bottom 50% of American society.
I am not a tariff champion and most people I know are firmly against them, including those whose financial wisdom I greatly respect. But I am open minded about them with the understanding that there is more to life and country than just money. The Brazilification of American society is not healthy. We have the means and resources to try a different approach to our economy other than perpetual globalization. And the first year of tariffs does show how resilient the American economy is.
I can see in too many people a blindness from the inability to see beyond their beliefs in what must be the perpetual way of doing things. Being a history geek, I've long noticed that the men of, say, 1896, firmly believed their status quo was the way of the future, yet the actual future 30 years later was very different. Fundamentally different. Likewise, the men of 1926 had a similar experience had they lived to 1956. Today, we are seeing the establishment, mostly Democrats but not all, rage against people like Trump who propose an alternative way of doing business than the neoliberal globalist outlook, of structuring the economy and American national policies for working people's benefits, in the same fearful ways as the fine bankers of 1896 or 1926 raged against the emerging labor movements.
The stories of my forbears, products of the establishments of the 1890s-1920s, who spent the subsequent decades till their death in the 60s and 70s railing against the red terror of Roosevelt's New Deal, can be funny, but I also recognize they still lived well, and maybe more pertinent, they survived. Had there been no New Deal, things could have been different and not in a better way. Who knows.
Anyway, let's be open minded. If you don't want tariffs, what are your ideas for helping the bottom 50% of Americans, financially, emotionally, culturally? I'm open to hearing them.
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:14 AM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome the bottom 50% americans hav become much richer materially in last 40 years, its just the kike shitlib media tells otherwise and now trumpkin morons have adopted this victimhood narrative
the US system made the US significantly furking richer than birdshits in western euro, now u want to destroy that shit and think it magically will make shit better
its lolzy, this has been tried before, usualy in post colonial socialist shithole countries |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:15 AM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643494) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:29 PM Author: Noah Tannenbaum We aren’t rich. We’re in debt. It’s all fake. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644291) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:30 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome eeverything is fake, all of modern western economy is fake welfare systems that never were unsustainable (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644295) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:18 AM Author: ..,,....,,.,..,,..,,...,...,,....,..., (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643502) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:19 AM Author: (antisemite) as pointed out above, your premise is mistaken.
but even accepting your premise, your argument is illogical. you're saying that unless someone comes up with a better solution, then we're justified in trying a retarded idea that has been known to backfire whenever it's been tried. basically this argument can be used a justification for any shitty backfiring socialist policy because "hey man, at least it's *trying* to help...and do u have any better ideas?"
sometimes not doing something actually hurts less than doing something. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:55 AM Author: LathamTouchedMe tariffs aren't a new idea. It's a centuries-old discredited policy. The American economy has done amazingly well since WW2. Better than every other aging first-world country. America's problem has been in its unequal distribution of income and wealth. There are better ways to tackle that than what amounts to a regressive tax. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643598) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 12:02 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome actually inequality is flame too, most of amerikkkans probs comes down to the govt being unable to fix basic things like housing prices, crime, transport, healthcare and education costs. and lots of this shit is related to NIGGAS, so the real prob is actually NIGGAS. the US stopped investing in infra 40y ago and it cant fix shit like healthcare cause of NIGGAS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643622) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 12:05 PM Author: (antisemite) piketty is a discredited charlatan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643633) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 1:06 PM Author: Long PlayroomPoon Clown Conniption ( ) stop talking sense (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643765) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:13 PM Author: Charles Tyrwhitt Dad I am aware of all of the criticism of tariffs which is why I mentioned that I wasn't a fan of them.
But it's undeniable the wellbeing of the bottom 50% of Americans have declined sharply. It's not a question of giving them cheap TVs and iphones and telling them a la Marie Antoinette let them eat cake (though she never actually said it, but you get the point). Quality of life is measured in many ways. Declines of towns and small cities and demographics affect personal quality of life. And we have many metrics showing the decline of the bottom 50% in just about everything from healthcare (lower life expectancy), financial standing, job security, housing affordability where the jobs are, family structure and so on.
The Democratic Party's response is more bread and circuses via welfare programs, which incidentally seems to be more about subsidizing employment grift schemes for overeducated social workers aka Democratic supporters than helping actual people. Beyond that there has been no real effort by the former party of working people to actually help people, which is more than just freebies. Meanwhile the progressive left only cares about its pet issues, a single trans whining about faked injustice in Brooklyn means more to the left than the entire working class population of Ohio.
To Trump's credit, he is the only politician to not only talk about helping working Americans and actually taking steps to live up to his word. It doesn't mean the tariffs are the solution, but he actually did try something. And it's beyond onshoring manufacturing, there's a distinct geopolitik policy in decoupling much of our more sensitive supply chains from certain countries. I am more than happy to have many conversations about Trump's foolishness with how much of the tariffs were rolled out and the bizarreness of attacking loyal allies and countries we have surpluses with. But back home the Democrats aren't doing anything other than continually undermining the working classes. What to do? What to think. Even people like you, with your well established liberalism, have never once offered ideas and solutions for improving the lot of working Americans beyond throwing more freebies at them. Raising taxes on the superrich to fund UBIs is just more of the bread and circuses (and not to mention inflationary).
I am a Reaganite at heart and soul, but I do accept moderation and the golden mean. Right now our society is not in a good place. We've gone too far in certain directions with our globalist and economic neoliberalism and some kind of moderation back to a healthier mean is needed. So I'm open to ideas. Real ideas. I just haven't seen any from all the usual suspects. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:32 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome "the wellbeing of the bottom 50% of Americans have declined sharply"
this is just such retarded shit that shows how this entire thing is just shitlibs and now trump pandering to retards. in reality the lives of all americans have become far easier, they have more material wealth and more bullshit and more disposable income than ever before. sure the rich got richer and can criticize the whole system and focus on material possessions but its highly retarded to even argue this point
its just u morons fantacize abt the 1950s as if it was some perfect time (20% of birdshits didnt even have indoor toilets then). and these factory jerbs and shit and thin obedient wives ljl the economy is totally diff u arent gonna bring back tons of factory jerbs and bitches beign feminazi cunts is a totaly diff issue
eat shit birdshits, its hilarous furking socialist INDIA is more free trade than USA now, they are doubling down while dumbazz trump turns US into zimbabwe |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:36 PM Author: LathamTouchedMe I absolutely agree about the declines and/or stagnation in quality of life measures for the middle to lower classes. But these really are primarily questions of income distribution, regulation, and infrastructure investment. Other first world countries have a much better balance between labor and capital and it shows. Rather than go off on some weird tangent with tariffs, we should probably look to see what other first world countries have done in healthcare, rural investment, financial regulation, tax policy etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644112) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:46 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Taxes are more focused on high-earners in the US than they are in Europe.
https://x.com/DKThomp/status/2018686056120336559 |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:55 PM Author: LathamTouchedMe I saw that today on my twitter feed. Haven't dived into the study. Definitely interesting. My initial hot take is that euro middle class pays more in taxes but doesn't have to really on the private or semi-private sector for healthcare, education, and even utilities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644181) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:10 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Income has also increased for people in the bottom 20% faster than for any other group, when you adjust for welfare. Regardless, for all groups, real income has gone up in the past decades.
https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1867457783446061454/photo/1 |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:14 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome and then on top of that these shitlib stats never factor in govt transfers, the bottom 50% are living large off welfare type payments liek SS and VA disability, if u factor that shit in i bet they are furkign doing better than ever (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644237) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:15 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, That's what the chart I linked shows.
The people for whom income growth has been slowest are the 40th-80th percentiles. But they're still doing better than they were. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:16 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome "inequlity" is the dumbest shitlib stat its just a way to oppress the ppl who actually productive and destroy business and society in the end (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644249) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:12 PM Author: Gavin Newsom Worth noting that Europeans are "paid" in numerous non-monetary ways that aren't taxed, such as 5+ weeks of vacation per year, 32 hour workweeks and they basically cannot be fired if they've worked at a place for 3+ years (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644226) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:13 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Not being able to be fire employees massively dissuades companies from hiring them in the first place, and it's why so many Europeans are jobless. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644231) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:14 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome or even shit like having better infra where u dont need to own a car if a form of "pay" whereas in US even poorshits have to find money for a car, its insane no one talks abt this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644240) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:20 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, this is one thing i absolutely agree with you and LTM on. safe and efficient public transit and being able to live somewhere where you don't need a car is huge for a working-class budget. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644260) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:25 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome amerishits yap abt having lower taxes than euros (which im not even sure is true when u factor in state and property but whatever) but then ignore all these hidden "taxes" on healthcare, education and transport that exist in US. or even safety, u have to live in a safe area so u pay a "tax" to do so
euros dont really deal with this shit |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:35 PM Author: .,.,...,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,.,..,:,.;,.., it's obv cheaper to live like ants in an ant colony the way euros do. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644484) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:23 PM Author: .,.,...,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,.,..,:,.;,.., you can't have kids and a family and not have a car you fucking moron. not everyone is some childless vagabond dipshit waste of space like you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644458) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:29 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, false. i have kids and a family and no car.
their school is a 5 minute walk from my house. the supermarket is 5 minute walk from my house the opposite way. dentist and doctors within a 10 minute walk. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:32 PM Author: .,.,...,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,.,..,:,.;,.., you likely are making this up but even if you're not, suppose you want to go to a different grocery store, or send your kids to a different school or want to see a different doctor or dentist? then what, you load them on a fucking bus? do you call an uber every time you want to take your kid to the golf course or to baseball practice? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644480) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:37 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, there are 3 other big supermarket chains within a 1-mile radius and dozens of smaller grocery stores and produce stands. the ones that are a mile away, i can get to with a 3-minute train ride. there are actually half a dozen dentists within 10 minutes, and lots of doctors too. but yeah, i have to take them to specialists sometimes, and we take the train...literally some world-class specialists within a 20-minute train ride of where we are.
getting them on the train is easier and less of a pain than strapping them into car seats in a minivan. and they enjoy taking the train.
lol at taking my kid to a golf course. that's a good one. devastating.
there are two ballfields within a 10-minute walk of my house. kids did flag football last fall and it was a 3 minute walk from their school to the ball field and an 8 minute walk from the ball field to our house. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:42 PM Author: .,.,...,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,.,..,:,.;,.., lol you don't have kids and are some weird chinese incel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644501) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 4:49 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, i have two kids, 7 and 9 years old. both boys. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644524) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:37 PM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Link showing decline in life expectancy since 1996 (not including the COVID decline)?
It's easier to have good financial standing and afford more house when iPhones and TVs and food and other goods are cheap. Easier to keep your family afloat through a period of job instability. Tariffs do the opposite of promoting that goal. |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 1:53 PM Author: ,.,....,.,.,.,:,,:,...,:::,,...,:,.,.:...,:.::,. The demographics have changed a lot since 1990 and the country is now 56-57% white and the bottom 50% isn't very white. Even if tariffs start working after 10 years, it's hard to care about the people who will get those newly created jobs especially if it means the S&P 500 won't do well over the next 10 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643959) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:59 PM Author: AZNgirl talking Selfie with Snow Leopard Handsome protip: the bottom 50% is plenty furking birdshit u dumb retard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644190) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 1:58 PM Author: Judas Jones Picturing a respected family patriarch sitting by the fire in a high backed chair with a pipe and brandy, wearing a perfectly crisp white CT noniron french cuff shirt giving this thoughtful monologue. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643977) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 2:27 PM Author: :;:;:::;:;;:::;;:::;:;:;;:;;: I reject the premise that the bottom 50% is doing poorly economically (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644081) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 11:35 AM Author: Candy Ride If the WSJ says so it must be true! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49643565) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:50 PM Author: some on social media WSJ is the fucking Rudolph of macroeconomic predictions (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5830424&forum_id=2...id.#49644352) |
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Date: February 3rd, 2026 3:50 PM Author: Lab Diamond Dallas Trump I am mixed on the tariffs but:
1. the impact on prices hasn't been anywhere near what the screeching chicken littles claimed it would be
2. i wouldn't have expected them to significantly boost manufacturing in under a year
3. hollowing out US manufacturing is a national security issue that tariffs, if successful, would address
4. i wouldn't expect WSJ kikes to be honest about the impact of tariffs, and their impact can be difficult to isolate from what may be normal cyclical economic slowdowns |