American Economics Thread

FairAndUnbiased

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The "fail fast" model is most appropriate when engineering discipline isn't properly established. It is nothing new it is known as the "spiral model" of development and was used back in the space race. Fact is there simply wasn't enough experience on reusable vehicles to begin with. So attempting to make a huge project that is expected to work 100% correctly the first time is kind of impossible to begin with.
problem - rocketry is actually extremely well established. It was invented in Song Dynasty lmao and
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That is to say it is a contemporary with antibiotics, air travel and gas cars. Therefore the 'fail fast' model is actually just 'fail' and destruction of value.
 

9dashline

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Being a CEO of a company has some disadvantages one of them being restrictions on selling shares (to avoid insider trading). He cant suddenly bailout with his share if he wants. Acc to rules he would have to declare his sale in advance . If that happens then the share price will fall and reduce his net worth as a result.

Teslas valuations are absolutely mindboggling but if you listen to the general discourse amongst Americans, for them Tesla is a company of the future that will dominate critical sectors like Space (SPaceX), Cars, Clean Energy etc Hence the massive bets on it.
Hey didn't Google restructure a few years ago during the AlphaGo era when DeepMind was making waves, and they asked why did the parent company get changed to Alphabet.... the answer was it was going to be the Alpha of all bets, hence the "AlphaBet"....
 

9dashline

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As the article title says ...

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""Net of inventory accumulation, real GDP for the third quarter was slightly negative, US government data released Thursday morning show. Real GDP grew at an annual rate of 2%, below the forecasters’ consensus of 2.6%, the Commerce Department reported. But a jump in inventories added 2.07 percentage points annualized to GDP. That’s more than the reported growth.

That’s a very odd number, considering that the inventory-to-sales ratio of US business stands at the lowest level on record, due to supply-chain constraints that prevent businesses from restocking. It’s likely that the inventory number was exaggerated. If that’s true, the US economy shrank during the third quarter.""
 

FairAndUnbiased

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Its simply a 22 trillion dollar economy that is 70% end consumption being grinded in to dog meat by stagflation.
The consumption figures are also misleading - rent, fuel, electricity, car, maintenance, etc just to run a household in the US is crazy expensive. Same with huge tax software and accounting companies simply to be in compliance with complex tax codes. Or tuition to attend university.

US used to have tons of discretionary and retail consumption... Now it has skyrocketing expenses in required consumption.
 

9dashline

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GDPNow forecasting Q4 GDP growth at 6.6%.

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The other day it was forecasting 0.2% growth, I don’t understand how it changed for Q4.
Don't forget to deduct 15% for imputed rent, now that more folks are staying at home with their mom and pop.... maybe -20%

The US is fudging numbers, the GDP for Q3 is negative
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emblem21

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Its simply a 22 trillion dollar economy that is 70% end consumption being grinded in to dog meat by stagflation.
The USA economic destruction is certainly taking its time yet the government is focussed on China as though it is a solution to their problem. Once the civil unrest and riots start, it will be too late to save the USA and hence we can expect the USA to begin losing all its privileges so that well, we may eventually see the birth of a fourth world nation that is also going to be the most unsafe nation in the coming decade
 

bettydice

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Its simply a 22 trillion dollar economy that is 70% end consumption being grinded in to dog meat by stagflation.
It also exclusively produces world's highest-tech products that no one else can make.

The US economy being heavily on consumption is natural and how it's intended to work. The US dollar is the world's reserve currency. To serve as the reserve currency, the dollar needs to flow out of the US by consumption of imported goods so that the rest of the world can earn the dollar to use. It doesn't matter to the US because the US can create the money as much as it wants, and the inflation is passed on to the rest of the world which cannot create money. The ruler doesn't produce generic products, he consumes what his subjects produce. The reserve currency status of the USD is guaranteed as long as the US military is physically controlling most parts of the world.
 
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