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Diesel hit record rates and these guys are claiming it's about the vibes?
This from the same financial brain trust that suggested that curing sick people is bad for business.
Not just at record prices but also the LA to Dallas route is slowing down which is for those not in the know real fucken bad.
I guess I'm not in the know...what does this mean?
As the other guy noted it's basically one of the big routes for the movement of goods within the US also one of the longer ones. If it slows down it's usually a right fucken bad sign and usually is a pretty solid real world economic indicator of how the economy is doing even if it's a tad imprecise. I live right by where the CA 60 merged with the 10 which is a pretty major merger section and it has been getting increasingly sparce.
Basically to put it in other terms it'd be like living on the Adriatic during the late medieval era and watching Venetian ships coming to port less and less. You may not know what's causing it exactly but you know it's not good regardless.
I was not either and looked it up.
They're referring to that corridor being one of the largest in terms of supply chain for the rest of the county.
A slow down in that supply chain is an indicator of weak retail demand.
I can't quantify anything for you, but it sounds like another indicator that the stock market doesn't actually represent how well 'the economy' is doing.
I've been taking a wait-and-see attitude for a few years, honestly. To me, the stock market looks a lot like tulip-bulb mania. Stocks like Tesla and SpaceX seems absolutely insane to me. It's like everyone is betting on everyone else vibing out on Elon's bullshit, and thinking either they will continue to believe it, or continue to pretend to believe it, pumping up the stock to absurd levels of P/E ratios.
Same goes for virtually everything AI, and so many things are tied to AI now. When that rug pull happens, it's going to fucking hurt.
The sad part is that the very minute the idle rich pull out of speculation on market bubbles, that's when the layoffs roll through just about every company, even companies that are not really involved.
For all their talk about "leadership", just about everyone running companies, even the small ones, just mimic one another. "If companies like Oracle lay off people, well, gosh, why aren't we doing the same?" Someone may counter with "well, sir, we are in no way tied to Oracle or their business model or anything and our financials are just fine", but MBA-brain is usually hard to be reached by actual facts.
You know what? Pizza party for the whole country. And you can wear jeans on Friday. You're welcome.
What about a Hawaiian shirt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8Ni1sXBLk
(Limited to one (1) large pepperoni pizza, to share)