Sean Brodrick

Good morning bluesky. I'm wondering this too.

U.S. Automakers Risk Being Reduced to Niche Producers of Gas Vehicles

How U.S. carmakers cope with this pivotal moment will determine whether they survive as global players or slide into irrelevance, becoming niche manufacturers of pickups and sport utility vehicles that only Americans buy. #EV #econsky #automakers #China

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Cool moon photo, not mine

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This music grows on you. youtu.be/3TmOzcwX894?...

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Currently listening to a playlist of "The Expanse" inspired music.
Because I would love to get off this planet.
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My Roomba has a taser.
I'm not sure where it got it.
Scares the crap out of the cat, though.

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Kolanovic.

It means more likelihood of tariffs being passed through to consumers. That's happening now, but merchants were absorbing some of the costs. As they accept this is the "new normal," they pass more of the price hikes through.

Only 35% to 40% of the crude oil processed in U.S. refineries is imported, so the tariffs don't have as big an impact as you might think.
To your main point, what we're seeing (I think) is the market pricing in more U.S. oil, gasoline and fuel products being shipped overseas.

Media outlets, citing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, report that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz. The daily transit volume of oil and petroleum products through the Strait of Hormuz accounts for approximately 20% of global oil and petroleum consumption.

Hiring the dregs of Liberty Law School for the DOJ is the legal equivalent of drafting 13-year-olds into the infantry

Well, it's not reaching me, because I just canceled HBO.

The 3 people I blame for this stupid war other than Trump.
Vladimir Putin – gas station owner with delusions of grandeur.
Bibi Netanyahu – Israeli crime kingpin.
Mohammed bin Salman – bone saw aficionado.
All 3 profit from the U.S. attacking Iran. All 3 urged the idiot king along this path.

who's, not whose. Dammit.
I should have typed it, I know, I know. Voice to text fails me once again.

Iran is the suicidal bad girl Uncle Sam just can't quit, and now we're both hellbound together.
By that, I mean the closure of the Strait of Hormuz will have rippling, unintended consequences for the global economy, and no one whose honest knows how this will play out.
It's a recipe for chaos.

I was just poking fun. No, we aren't Russia ... yet.

If you keep pulling on that thread of curiosity, be sure to stay away from open upper-story windows.

Via Barchart: The U.S. will owe an additional $700 million in interest each month it delays paying tariff refunds.
#EconSky

From Gas Buddy: Oil prices surging again today, WTI crude oil up $4.75/bbl another 7%, with RBOB gasoline up 5.2%, national average likely now to head closer to $3.30/gal and beyond over next few weeks #EconSky #Gasoline

TRUMP: U.S. CAN FIGHT “FOREVER” Donald Trump says the U.S. has a “virtually unlimited” weapons stockpile and can sustain wars “forever” as the Iran conflict enters its fourth day. In a social media post, he claimed the U.S. is “ready to win big,” while describing ongoing

As with most things the President says, this needs a serious fact-check. Here you go.
It's certainly a good time to be a U.S. arms manufacturer.

a bald man is making a funny face and saying inconceivable . ALT: a bald man is making a funny face and saying inconceivable .

It seems inconceivable that Iran is launching new strikes when the mainstream media assured me yesterday that the U.S. had decapitated the regime.
Almost as if we've fueled Iran's thirst for conflict. Almost as if that was the plan, a plan hatched by manipulative powers.

LOL!

If you're an investor, I hope you're long oil stocks. I made the case for them last month in this article: weissratings.com/en/weiss-rat...

There is a certain irony in Americans who moved to Qatar and the UAE for the tax-free local environment demanding US taxpayers spend money to come rescue them.
That said, if Orange Julius wasn't lobbing bombs in that region, none of this would come up. It's plain where the fault lies.

In the comments section in the February ISM Manufacturing PMI, there are 8 mentions of tariffs. This probably signals supply shock acceleration #EconSky #Inflation #Tariffs

Construction spending on data centers reached a new all-time high in December; year/year change (orange) ticked up to +29%, which is slightly below average over past decade.
America is having an AI boom while the rest of the economy stagnates.

Shoot itself in the foot with a coal powered revolver is not the future I anticipated.