Hate the Dogebags.
I hate to be that guy but what are the odds any of our big projects are even started, much less finished, any time soon given the economic climate the GOP has decided to voluntarily enter? Save for SLU/Children's hospital
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well there will be plenty of lumber
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
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Still probably cheaper to find a new lumber import partner than investing in US production that will crumble the moment the tariffs are liftedchris fuller wrote: ↑Mar 04, 2025well there will be plenty of lumber
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order
If they found a way around the massive inflation they'll find a way to do it now.jtlq53 wrote: ↑Mar 04, 2025I hate to be that guy but what are the odds any of our big projects are even started, much less finished, any time soon given the economic climate the GOP has decided to voluntarily enter? Save for SLU/Children's hospital
I meant I'm confident in that one, SLU/SSM wouldn't do it without guaranteed funding. Anyone have any ideas about the others? Albion? AHM? etc
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This is one of the more ignorant things you’ll read on UrbanStL this month.flipz wrote: ↑Mar 05, 2025If they found a way around the massive inflation they'll find a way to do it now.jtlq53 wrote: ↑Mar 04, 2025I hate to be that guy but what are the odds any of our big projects are even started, much less finished, any time soon given the economic climate the GOP has decided to voluntarily enter? Save for SLU/Children's hospital
Developers DID NOT find a way around “massive inflation”. Development tanked and projects stalled (especially in our market) as a result of, among other things, inflation.
“Massive inflation” ended almost two years ago.
Stagflation is a serious concern with these policies. Construction will cease basically everywhere if we enter stagflation.
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Aluminum and steel prices are going to be a real sticking point on these projects. I hope they can find a way to move forward but these tariffs might ruin the margins on most of these bigger buildings in the short term.
Why build a building when the feds are increasing uncertainty when you can buy digital currencies where the feds are going to add stability?
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/bus ... c162d.html
Gonna get whip lash with all of this back and forth. Looks like the FDA lab in the CWE will remain open.
Gonna get whip lash with all of this back and forth. Looks like the FDA lab in the CWE will remain open.
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Now with a 40% chance of a recession this year I don’t think much is going to get started & everything probably get put on hold. I hope that I’m wrong. Trump is purposely tanking the economy. Oh well I’m glad I didn’t vote for this sh** show of an administration. President Musk knows what’s best for us as well. What’s even worse the people that voted for this make excuses for this crap cause they don’t like liberal policies. As an independent voter while both aren’t great I far desire the policies of the liberals than this fascist hate everything Maga shift. Anyways democrats need to grow some b***sacks.. Can’t believe we’re stuck with 4 years of this absolute garbage nonsense. That’s my rant.
Preach! Funny how conservatives were too stupid to understand the economic complexity of cooling inflation three months ago but now it’s “there will be necessary detoxing”, “a little inflation is ok”.
Hold your jobs. Save your money. Put spending on pause. Republicans are in control and coming for your money.
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Hold your jobs. Save your money. Put spending on pause. Republicans are in control and coming for your money.
Markets have fallen off a cliff today. Basically the last 6 months of gains are gone in a month. They're so beyond lucky that the economy was so strong when they came in, pretty big buffer for these losses.
$TSLA is lower than it was on election day. That $250M to buy Trump may not have been a good trade.
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I didn’t expect Trump to talk us into a recession but he’s on that path. Simply stunning. And right wing media will tell us that this is a “healthy” recession.
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They’re saying this is needed because the market was too high yeah whatever. What a bunch of blow wads. Trying to make every excuse to not look pathetic. Their hate for Biden is beyond evident & then this unnecessary bullying of Canada & Mexican is just dumb f***ery is worse than a baby throwing a tantrum.
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At least I'll be able to hyperinflate away my mortgage
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I just bumped my 401k contribution to MAX. Love it. Its a little chaotic right now. Tariffs get implemented, then a new, better deal for the US gets worked out, then tariffs are paused or stopped. It's all just a quick and simple renegotiating of bad deals. I'm ok with DOGEing everything with a hatchet and starting over. It's been so corrupt for so long. The reset button always works. All good. Best thing to happen in years. I honestly thought nobody would ever actually do this. It's so great.
^ Got it.
If we are blaming Biden for the drop in the market, it's a negative. If it's because of Trump, then it's best thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe.
If we are blaming Biden for the drop in the market, it's a negative. If it's because of Trump, then it's best thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe.
I'd rather go through the little bit of chaos to reduce GHG emissions.
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Eh, I think I'm just kind of a buy the dip guy by nature. I also have confidence in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, highest ranking gay official in US history. His comments seems spot on to me.pdm_ad wrote: ↑Mar 12, 2025^ Got it.
If we are blaming Biden for the drop in the market, it's a negative. If it's because of Trump, then it's best thing that has ever happened in the history of the universe.
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DOGE has cut ~$55B (and that’s likely generous because courts are going to unwind a portion of these cuts) from a $6.8T budget. Thats 4/5 of 1%. And again, a significant portion of these cuts will not make it past judicial scrutiny. So it’s more likely to be one-half of 1%.
And because there is no oversight, DOGE haSN’t offered any evidence that any portion of the $55B is in fact wasteful.
Speaking of corruption, how about Tesla winning a $400MM federal contract while its CEO works the president like puppet from a cabinet post?
And because there is no oversight, DOGE haSN’t offered any evidence that any portion of the $55B is in fact wasteful.
Speaking of corruption, how about Tesla winning a $400MM federal contract while its CEO works the president like puppet from a cabinet post?