United States Biden administration policies and actions - megathread
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You know, when they say the absence of evidence is evidence in itself... just saying.
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shutting down the investigation looks more suspecious then simply letting it go on and do its job.
shutting down the investigation looks more suspecious then simply letting it go on and do its job.
At this point, Beijing Biden is pretty much acting against his own country.
And Libtards voted this fool in.
And Libtards voted this fool in.
Navarro
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We were told Trump was a Russian puppet, but he was a relentless hawk on them. No "Siberian candidate" would have backed the Poles - no friends of Putin's - to the extent he did.
Funny thing is Beijing because of Domestic politics can not accept a clear win. Their goal is to piss off the entire world and provoke a nationalist backlash to keep themselves in power. No matter how much Biden bows, Katows and bends for them they have no choice but to spit on his efforts and slap every out streched hand.
Which means the democrats have a choice of either looking weak, which the spooks, milatary and other people can only handle for so long or they have to go into a hard trade war with china.
Biden has decided to double the tariffs on Canadian lumber for whatever reason, despite the fact that timber costs are already pretty high.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Keep in mind Trump enacted a 20% tariff on Canadian Lumber back in his administration as well, but the World Trade Organization ruled in favor of Canada and the tariff was reduced to 9% and furthermore, the base price of lumber at the time was a fraction of what it is now. Everyone is pretty bummed about this... Canada... as well as every business and consumer in America that uses lumber.... but the lumber industry itself is pretty happy.
Biden administration moving to double tariffs on Canadian lumber despite already skyrocketing timber prices
The Biden administration is recommending doubling tariffs on Canadian lumber despite the current skyrocketing prices for the materials for U.S. consumers.
www.washingtonexaminer.com
Keep in mind Trump enacted a 20% tariff on Canadian Lumber back in his administration as well, but the World Trade Organization ruled in favor of Canada and the tariff was reduced to 9% and furthermore, the base price of lumber at the time was a fraction of what it is now. Everyone is pretty bummed about this... Canada... as well as every business and consumer in America that uses lumber.... but the lumber industry itself is pretty happy.
History Learner
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Timber prices are actually low, but Lumber prices are high; tree growers are actually suffering big right now in the South. There’s some sort of fuckery going on with the Lumber Industry itself rather than any real issues with supply or importation.
What's the sitch?
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I heard that it was due to the people/companies that turn the trees into various lumber products/sizes that are jacking up the prices since there are a limited amount of them and they are backed up now due to everyone trying to go out and buy wood at the same time.
Normally there is a steady flow, but because of corona they are basically behind in supplying the demand and thus can raise prices.
Normally there is a steady flow, but because of corona they are basically behind in supplying the demand and thus can raise prices.
I remember hearing on Twitter months ago that a few mills shut down in the last year or so, meaning there is a bottle neck in production, not supply or demand.
It might me more economically for people to buy raw timber and cut it themselves for a while.
It might me more economically for people to buy raw timber and cut it themselves for a while.
It would also make sense that if they expect this to only last like, a month they wouldn't be willing to up orders which would drive up wood prices. And if the lumber companies aren't actually upping wood orders, there's nothing to drive wood prices up.
I guess this is the Austrian point that raw data analysis is not enough, you need to have a theory of mind to actually explain things, otherwise your just explaining a current correlation, rather than an explanation. Normally, an increase in price like this should be driving wood prices up, but if people don't think this is some new normal, no one wants to invest all the money necesary to increase production which the higher price would normally suggest.
Though, does anyone have a chart on timber prices? How long has this spike gone, and how high above base are things? Its also quite possible things haven't been going on long enough for plan adjustment yet.
Bear Ribs
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This should help lumber:
markets.businessinsider.com
It looks like the peak is passed, it's dropped from 1686 on the 7th down to 1323 today. Personally, I'm hoping it continues well as I need quite a bit for the next house I'm building but I've put it on hold for a couple of weeks in hopes that I can get the lumber cheaply if the current trend continues.
Timber as opposed to lumber is far harder to measure as a commodity and not traded the same way, because "a tree" isn't nearly as clearly measurable as "thirty 2x4s."
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markets.businessinsider.com
It looks like the peak is passed, it's dropped from 1686 on the 7th down to 1323 today. Personally, I'm hoping it continues well as I need quite a bit for the next house I'm building but I've put it on hold for a couple of weeks in hopes that I can get the lumber cheaply if the current trend continues.
Timber as opposed to lumber is far harder to measure as a commodity and not traded the same way, because "a tree" isn't nearly as clearly measurable as "thirty 2x4s."
If this is true, and Biden has decided to leave our Afghani interpreters at the mercy of the Taliban in the pull out...Afghanistan is going to hate us even more than it did before 9/11 when all is said an done, and the locals will never trust the US again.
What was President Trump's plan on dealing with these interpreters?
Looks like the Courts thankfully did the right thing and struck down the racial preferences for the restaurant relief bill that was supposed to be reserved for people of color owned restaurants first.
I hope USA manage to free itself without cyvil war.It would be shame if country which not die fighting soviets go down as bigger Venezuella.Not sure if this is the right thread, but thought it needed to be shared.
