Investing Thread

[The Sultan]

I'd love to quit exporting farm goods completely.  America First.  Starving parts of the world would exert our dominance and I think is something we ought to consider

Eating cornmeal covered with soy sauce daily to show the world who's boss...

[jesmu84]

I am all for the US to be more self-sustainable with its farming, but growing huge volumes of staples and inexpensively getting them to world markets is something we do better than almost everyone.

It's not like these farmers from Iowa and Illinois can move away from corn and start growing strawberries or something. At least not easily.

Is there any significant incentive to do that considering current subsidies?

[Jockey]

Is there any significant incentive to do that considering current subsidies welfare?

[Skatastrophy]

Eating cornmeal covered with soy sauce daily to show the world who's boss...

They would have to start growing different corn if we want them to be edible by humans. It will be an extremely painful shift, especially as the population continues to eat less meat because that's already creating downward pressure on feed corn.

[The Sultan]

Is there any significant incentive to do that considering current subsidies?

No but that's what I mean about being more self-sustainable. If we want to grow more of our own stuff, we definitely have to change the subsidy structure. That change just can't happen in a month or even a couple of years.

[Jockey]

No but that's what I mean about being more self-sustainable. If we want to grow more of our own stuff, we definitely have to change the subsidy structure. That change just can't happen in a month or even a couple of years.

Raise our own chickens. Grow our own food.

Easy peasy.

[Uncle Rico]

Raise our own chickens. Grow our own food.

Easy peasy.

We really need to become a nation of yeoman farmers like Jefferson envisioned

[Jockey]

We really need to become a nation of yeoman farmers like Jefferson envisioned

Can we bring slavery back to help us out a little? Us white guys don't dig manual labor.

[Scoop Snoop]

Can we bring slavery back to help us out a little? Us white guys don't dig manual labor.

Tune in tonight. You may get your wish.

[Shaka Shart]

Swapping in high Fructose corn syrup into my cooking in place of Olive oil, which is 99% imported.

[Jockey]

Swapping in high Fructose corn syrup into my cooking in place of Olive oil, which is 99% imported.

That'll add years onto your life. Good for you.

[BrewCity83]

Eating cornmeal covered with soy sauce daily to show the world who's boss...

It's called polenta.  You should try it.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

The greatest economy we'll ever see is thriving

STONKS

It's the Golden Age!

Just ask Goose.

[Pakuni]

lol

President Donald Trump will "probably" announce tariff compromise deals with Canada and Mexico soon, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/trump-tariff-compromise-canada-mexico-commerce-lutnick.html

[jesmu84]

No but that's what I mean about being more self-sustainable. If we want to grow more of our own stuff, we definitely have to change the subsidy structure. That change just can't happen in a month or even a couple of years.

Right.

When you only change one variable in the equation, it's absolute stupidity

[Uncle Rico]

lol

President Donald Trump will "probably" announce tariff compromise deals with Canada and Mexico soon, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Tuesday.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/04/trump-tariff-compromise-canada-mexico-commerce-lutnick.html

It really says something that 250 years into our existence, we may be dumber than ever.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

It really says something that 250 years into our existence, we may be dumber than ever.

Idiotocracy arrived sooner than expected.

[Pakuni]

Idiotocracy arrived sooner than expected.

Brawndo has what plants crave.

[Uncle Rico]

Idiotocracy arrived sooner than expected.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjnjLtRvH7Q/?igsh=OTRkdDFkeGU1eGEw

[Skatastrophy]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjnjLtRvH7Q/?igsh=OTRkdDFkeGU1eGEw

Delete FB and Instagram, imo

[rocky_warrior]

I wasn't monitoring, so I'll just issue a politics warning this time:  be better (or be banned)

As for investing, you're all a bunch of wimps.  It's not even bad yet, the real pain is coming.

[Jockey]

I wasn't monitoring, so I'll just issue a politics warning this time:  be better (or be banned)

As for investing, you're all a bunch of wimps.  It's not even bad yet, the real pain is coming.

I think that is a political comment. I have reported you to my wife and she is pondering what action(s) I should take.

And since you haven't been monitoring, I think you owe it to all of us diligent rule followers here on Scoop to report what you have been doing - using bullet points - for the last 5 days.

[rocky_warrior]

• Morning Coffee: Attempting to turn caffeinated bean juice into functional adulting. Success rate: 37%.
• Checking Emails: Enduring a daily barrage of "urgent" newsletters and passive-aggressive work updates, while desperately searching for a winning lottery notification.
• Grocery Shopping: Navigating a labyrinth of tempting snacks and produce that will inevitably rot in the crisper drawer.
• Folding Laundry: Engaging in a Sisyphean struggle against the mountain of clean clothes, questioning the very fabric of reality and the existence of matching socks.
• Going to Bed: Engaging in a nightly negotiation with your brain, attempting to convince it that "tomorrow's problems" are not, in fact, "tonight's riveting late-night lecture series."

[Jockey]

• Morning Coffee: Attempting to turn caffeinated bean juice into functional adulting. Success rate: 37%.
• Checking Emails: Enduring a daily barrage of "urgent" newsletters and passive-aggressive work updates, while desperately searching for a winning lottery notification.
• Grocery Shopping: Navigating a labyrinth of tempting snacks and produce that will inevitably rot in the crisper drawer.
• Folding Laundry: Engaging in a Sisyphean struggle against the mountain of clean clothes, questioning the very fabric of reality and the existence of matching socks.
• Going to Bed: Engaging in a nightly negotiation with your brain, attempting to convince it that "tomorrow's problems" are not, in fact, "tonight's riveting late-night lecture series."

No Arbys? I should have known.

My recommendation is termination!

[Scoop Snoop]

Only one question Rocky-do you know how to fold a fitted sheet?