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  1. Some of you need to read this post and wake up a bit. A lot of people want to come here and voice their frustrations, they may be different than yours, but hostility really takes away the conversation and turns things into an echo chamber. Now let's get ready for this meltdown in 9 1/2 hours
  2. I didn't like kamala as a candidate and still just bought in and enthusiastically voted for her. I knew she wouldn't be a train wreck and the thing that would piss me off the most about her is that she actually didn't get anything done except a few key things. She would have been a boring pick with extremely competent people around her. That isn't to discount the elephant in the room of the national debt, and the doom spiral that loomed, but there would have been a less catastrophic approach.
  3. This is life altering for everyone.
  4. Should we do a surlyhorns live stream of the market crash? What happens if it's a MASSIVE RALLY!!!
  5. https://www.jpx.co.jp/english/derivatives/products/domestic/topix-futures/index.html#:~:text=TOPIX Futures is a stock,Stock Price Index (TOPIX). Its like one of the major indexes domestically hitting a circuit breaker. Circuit breakers halt trading for a certain period of time to keep markets from going hysterical and melting all the way down so it isn't just a panic driven event. Its very bad if it continues down steep after the circuit breaker. Eventually they will do what Putin did and just close the stock market and halt trading so no one can melt it down any further, when you do this it makes your exchange basically junk though because there is no liquidity and the market is so unstable it's hard to build confidence back in
  6. I was saying in a vacuum going on a tariff spree that actually was calculated, made sense and had demands attached to it from the get go would have seemed like hard line negotiating, it would have had an impact but not a full meltdown. These people did the unthinkable and honestly the stupidest thing possible, I don't think there is any way they could have done worse. Then their erratic and unstable behavior has continued after causing even more uncertainty. The meltdown isn't a single component, it's a mix of all this massive stupidity.
  7. Well, you are completely wrong on the prices and availability of rooms. Also almost everything at that price point is going to be all inclusive, which you may not be pricing in. So if you aren't a heavy drinker all inclusive /resort probably doesn't make sense for you, since the main appeal for those is to drink your body weight in alcohol and be waited on hand and foot without worrying about the bill. Sounds like you will barely even be at the hotel and maybe your wife will enjoy relaxing. I'd go the airbnb route and maybe splurge and get a private chef one of the nights for fun. The rest of the time you can just drive wherever you want, there's also day passes for beach clubs all over the place that are all inclusive if you wanna do that vibe one of the days. (You can hire a driver or rent a car, although the insurance is a bit wonky in MX so you have to put a 10% refundable down payment on the car if you dont buy their premium insurance) Xcaret is a huge outdoor theme park with all kinds of incredible stuff. Good for 2 full days or 1 really long day. Take the ferry to isla mujeres and bounce around a bit and then go back from playa del Carmen, then maybe do a day trip to the ruins. I'd skip tulum with the fam tbh. There is no shortage of stuff to do in the riviera Maya. Everything is cheap as fuck, and it's mostly safe if you aren't being a shithead. For a family of 4 for a week in comfortable digs you should be able to do it for 4k including flights. You can cheap out and do it for 2500 and the sky is kinds the limit of what you can do, you can spend 10k it just won't really be worth it.
  8. Its pretty diverse there and there's hotels/resorts/experiences that run the gamut in both variety and price. What do y'all like to do? Beach beach and sports? Beach pool and chill people watch? Outdoor adventures and exporation? Party or no party? History/culture tours or no? Just trying to get away get hammered and not have your kids around except for dinner?
  9. Correct, its so stupid there's a no way out and they've chosen to triple and quadruple down against the advice of everyone willing to give them a pass for the stupidity. Seriously, everyone keeps understating or not fully grasping the stupidity of this, it almost needs a new word, because something this stupid has never actually happened in the modern world.
  10. I'm not here to cloak things up, but I don't think the tariffs themselves are what caused this meltdown and the correction after unveiling them didn't have to be a complete walkback to calm the market. The problem is this is stupid any way you look at it. It was stupid how it was announced, rolled out, picked, communicated, justified, any way you look at it it is completely and utterly stupid. Its completely devoid of any rational thought or basis in common global reality. It is stupid on such a profound level, no one knows what the fuck to think. When no one knows what to think, herd mentality is the most dangerous, and right now there's a mass exodus of both foreign and domestic dollars out of the market to get to something someone thinks is safe.
  11. The bottom is any company that isn't actually profitable and was using stock issued to a frothy market to pay for shit going to 0. Buckle up its gonna be a fucking ride.
  12. Dude I'm not sure what you are talking about. Do you have any proof whatsoever?
  13. I'm down to sanction a boycott.
  14. Just don't threadshit with Politics only, leave any spin or opinion on the political side out of it you can put any opinion on the economic/news/business side of it.
  15. Not too worried about it, comes with being an active poster. I'm not gonna speak for Wulaw, but I do know he's not in CR much if at all these days and he's definitely not openly rooting for anything like stassney is saying. If it was obvious that he was supporting things antithetical to the spirit of surly we would stop the sponsorship. I need some help understanding that though if it's the case.
  16. Are you confused about posters? Wulaw doesn't post in CR AFAIK and the sponsorship is paid.
  17. What are you even talking about? Is this one of your sarcastic posts it's hard to tell what you are joking about anymore.
  18. Not trying to be a dick, but that is a totally different thing than this. If every black person in the united states protested or did a strike it was only 11% in 1960s and its under 15% still today. If half the population protests or strikes then shit will happen real quick.
  19. Not sure I agree with violence, but protests need to actually be disruptive and cause something. They can't just be a way to get your feelings out
  20. Yeah if all these people just didn't work for a week it would be impossible to ignore.
  21. Yeah I'm not sure what this even does. Protests need to be peaceful but completely disruptive to something to work. Everyone going out and being pissed off that things aren't going well isn't gonna do shit but make people feel like they did something. These protests should happen any time doge tries to enter a building or when they try to close a park etc.
  22. I was told all hedge funds sold off and were gonna buy the dip wiping out retail investors.
  23. video.mp4
  24. This is actually accurate lol
  25. This is what happens when don't vote would have won the general.
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