There used to be posts here every time ExxonMobil posted earnings. I looked across other big companies to compare stats and stumbled upon one that was actually pretty obvious in retrospect. Coca-Cola. They don't make as much money as ExxonMobil, of course. Nowhere near. But in relation to how much money they invest, they blow them out of the water. Coca-Cola is mostly water. They add in a few very cheap ingredients and put it in a plastic bottle and sell it for WAY more per gallon than ExxonMobil can sell the stuff they make from an expensive ingredient that you have to get permission to look for, drill into the Earth to catch, and extensively refine. A 12-pack of coke at my local Walmart is showing online at $7.92, spot on 5.5 cents per ounce. That's $7.04/gallon for sugar water. The Google AI Summary thinks it costs $.50 to make a gallon of Coca-Cola. I don't know if that is correct, but assuming it for the sake of argument and then also pretending that they have to get their water and sugar from China (I think the coca extract is probably imported??) then they could definitely eat that tariff if doing so got them something. They aren't going to do it out of civic pride, but it would look good in a marketing campaign.
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One thing to keep in mind running those figures is that Coke doesn't get that potential $6.50. there's also the middleman and logistics bringing that down, and everyone taking their cut.
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This is a podcast from a couple people who publish 3rd party RPG books, and they aren't afraid to talk about the business side of things. This section, if the timecode works, should put you right at where they were talking about the whole distributor price breakdown, using their products as an example. In Coke's case, they make it up some in volume, but they still have these issues because almost no one among the general public buys directly from Coke.
This was recorded before the dial-back-down to 30%, but it makes for a interesting conversation to hear from the manufacturer side of things. I think the full tariff discussion starts around 1:18:45 if you want to get the whole thing. They also discussed this in one or two of their other streams, but this was the most recent one that talks about the distributor and retailer issue for people making things.
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This is a podcast from a couple people who publish 3rd party RPG books, and they aren't afraid to talk about the business side of things. This section, if the timecode works, should put you right at where they were talking about the whole distributor price breakdown, using their products as an example. In Coke's case, they make it up some in volume, but they still have these issues because almost no one among the general public buys directly from Coke.
This was recorded before the dial-back-down to 30%, but it makes for a interesting conversation to hear from the manufacturer side of things. I think the full tariff discussion starts around 1:18:45 if you want to get the whole thing. They also discussed this in one or two of their other streams, but this was the most recent one that talks about the distributor and retailer issue for people making things.
It doesn't really matter why they won't just suck up the costs, they just won't. But the reality of the situation is: walmart creates and created massive sinkholes of poverty in the US, especially in the small towns they functionally now own because there is no other game in town. For millions of americans: that's it, there is no choice. Wally's or you don't eat.
Frankly: given how anti "any government interference at all" trumps cult is, I'm surprised they aren't screaming at him for daring to dictate terms to a corporation. Surely telling walmart what their profit margin would be is bridge too far.
A lot of them probably work for Walmart and would end up fired if they spoke out against it on social media.
Right, but the difference can still be seen in net margins. ExxonMobil's net profit margin is 9.43%. Walmart 2.71%. Coca-Cola 29.92%.
Those numbers are just a summary of all the things going and it is impossible for me to factor the tariffs in with actual math, but it is enough to let you see that Coca-Cola could weather have ALL of its costs go up 10%. ExxonMobil maybe could. Walmart, whose wares we know are mostly imported, clearly cannot.
I looked things up a different way and found:
The Observatory of Economic Complexity
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It is a little gross. Walmart got 17% less shipments from overseas in March than the March before. Those things will transfer through in shortages, not price hikes. I don't know how high toys USUALLY are, but I kind of suspect that they make up a lot of the drop because they are less likely to sell at double price. What did come in was mostly clothing. Next highest was...insect resins, which apparently are bug secretions that go into food.... (Edit - I'm really not getting a lot of clarity on exactly what the insect resins are, but it COULD be candy coatings)
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I've been seeing commercials from Hyundai claiming they're not going to raise prices. Best of luck to them on that, or maybe they plan to secretly do it anyway and hope customers blame the dealerships.
non-paywalled: https://archive.is/20250516210656/h...-s-loses-last-triple-a-credit-rating-bfcbae5d
This actually sounds like it was a long time coming, considering one bureau updated it in 2011, and another in 2023.
This actually sounds like it was a long time coming, considering one bureau updated it in 2011, and another in 2023.
trade destroyed, deficit about to be blown apart but hey; let's cough up millions in taxpayer money to a terrorists' family.
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Trump Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer Money to Family of Rioter Killed on Jan. 6
Donald Trump's Justice Department will reportedly pay $5 million to the family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt in a wrongful death settlement.
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FCC Chair Brendan Carr is letting ISPs merge—as long as they end DEI programs
Verizon got FCC approval after ending DEI. Now Charter and Cox plan to merge.
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I'm starting to believe that I'm not a real person, but a character in some hack writer's ham-handed political satire.
Being a bright green cartoon lizard really should have been a clue.
So, that "anti-Christian bias" jive Tmurp's on is going to the obvious place:
Being used by dipshits who think not having the absolute grossest of all pro-Catholic biases is somehow "an anti-Catholic bias".
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Being used by dipshits who think not having the absolute grossest of all pro-Catholic biases is somehow "an anti-Catholic bias".
FFRF slams DOJ probe into clergy reporting law
The Freedom From Religion Foundation excoriates the U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement that it is launching “a First Amendment investigation” into Washington state’s new child protection law.
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"Won't somebody please think of the child abusers?!?"
I want to take some time to think this through later, but the birds-eye view here is that at least in some small way, the Trump administration has taken responsibility for January 6. The White House is responsible for this woman's death.trade destroyed, deficit about to be blown apart but hey; let's cough up millions in taxpayer money to a terrorists' family.
Trump Is Giving Millions in Taxpayer Money to Family of Rioter Killed on Jan. 6
Donald Trump's Justice Department will reportedly pay $5 million to the family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt in a wrongful death settlement.
No, TRUMP is responsible for her death. "Fight like hell or you won't have a country anymore". Trump is then using tax payer money to reward her family for attempting to overthrow the government.
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Basically no further COVID boosters unless you're over 65 or classified as highly at risk.
Basically no further COVID boosters unless you're over 65 or classified as highly at risk.
Make sure you've got plenty of masks and toilet paper now, we're all gonna be needing them again soon enough.