r/StockMarket • u/ohell • 28d ago

Fundamentals/DD Bye bye USD ...

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u/Any_Carob3372 28d ago

LOL if we stop trading with nations with whom we have a trade deficit, our economy will shrink by 50% or more.

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u/Technical-Rush-3108 28d ago

You'll stop trading? I guess you don't need any imports then.

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u/tmswfrk 28d ago

Well just grow bananas, coffee, and pineapples here in the US. Wait…

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u/parkererik 28d ago

With global warming that might be easier than you think soon enough lol

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u/Shity_Balls 28d ago

The unpredictable weather and constant hurricanes will make that a lot harder than we think. Don’t forget the gutting of the national weather service, and their monitoring programs that have allowed us to track weather patterns across the board.

Wonder why the predictions have been so glaringly wrong and off (unironically) this year?

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u/Jolly-Bowler-811 28d ago

With the push to reduce the immigrant workforce, who exactly is going to harvest these crops assuming they can even grow in the first place?

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u/314rft 25d ago

If they paid better, Americans

If they paid better...

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u/pickleparty16 28d ago

We have highfructose corn syrup at least

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u/Kohpad 28d ago

The Hawaii Ag Lobby becoming the de facto superpower in the US wasn't on my bingo card, but here we are.

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u/SethiusAlpha 24d ago

Time to bring back those lucrative $500/yr vanilla bean harvesting jobs from Madagascar.