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bucolic_frolic

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1. Volatility in inputs and tariffs and taxes and oil markets

Reply to crud (Original post)

Mon Jun 15, 2026, 02:36 PM

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have caused complexity that manufacturers, distributors, retailers, shippers cannot quantify accurately at this point.

They were big tariffs, and varied geographically, they were 15%, there were exemptions and penalties, the shippers collected on them, the public paid for them, the price of fuel is up and down, the war is on and off all in the same day!

How can anyone know their costs anymore? Who eats the increases this week? Cost accounting is a whole genre, but what about all the fluctuations?

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How to lower costs... [View all] crud Monday OP

Volatility in inputs and tariffs and taxes and oil markets bucolic_frolic Monday #1

It's hard to make any sense of the chaos crud Monday #2

Unfortunately it seems Trump loves the slush fund this creates for him 31j20b3 Monday #3

no doubt he treats it like a slush fund. crud Monday #4

Little is forgotten and all the offenses are remembered 31j20b3 Monday #5