wayneL
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I could *almost buy a Ducati for that. In fact high end is only double and 0-100 on half a second or something ridiculous.
I could *almost buy a Ducati for that. In fact high end is only double and 0-100 on half a second or something ridiculous.No he was being literal. Just the wheels are $1000.
The bike itself is about 5000 at entry level.
A high end one is 25000.
might be only two years this time if a blue wave takes control of Congress and Senate , that would be a massive reversal but Trump is disrupting massivelyYep keep in mind US foreign policy often doesn’t change much between administrations also in the US money talks at some point Trump will come under pressure if enough power brokers lose money markets still falling because no one can measure the risk or price what the other side looks like interesting times it will create opportunities for us all but it will require patience….grasshopper
Bloody Hell! Just looking through Trek's site. I thought my sport was 'spensive.No he was being literal. Just the wheels are $1000.
The bike itself is about 5000 at entry level.
A high end one is 25000.
had all my teeth out at 21 , snubbed the dentist first , am not sure i would like to compete in these times , the old days let you have interesting customizations to fit your size/shape if you wanted to$1000 is roughly the starting price for a good entry set of road wheels today, most dentists would snub their nose at you.
bike racing is very expensive , every time you come off ( and even a few times i DIDN'T come off .. like an unplanned cross-country detour )Bloody Hell! Just looking through Trek's site. I thought my sport was 'spensive.
Well at least cross country detours are our specialityhad all my teeth out at 21 , snubbed the dentist first , am not sure i would like to compete in these times , the old days let you have interesting customizations to fit your size/shape if you wanted to
and the politics would be even worse than the cheating
bike racing is very expensive , every time you come off ( and even a few times i DIDN'T come off .. like an unplanned cross-country detour )
Aren't you assuming that the cost of American labour is cheaper than the cost of foreign labour + whatever tarrif is required?Have you actually thought about what you've said?
Forcing companies to produce their goods on-shore by americans is the very purpose of the tariffs. While it increases the cost of goods it also increases the demand for american labour.
A family member had one done about 5 years ago, it was well over 16k in a private hospital, from memory.Cheezuz! Over a thousand bucks just so I don't @#$& up my knees running?
How much is a knee replacement?
love the photo bloke
had all my teeth out at 21 , snubbed the dentist first , am not sure i would like to compete in these times , the old days let you have interesting customizations to fit your size/shape if you wanted to
and the politics would be even worse than the cheating
bike racing is very expensive , every time you come off ( and even a few times i DIDN'T come off .. like an unplanned cross-country detour )
Good evening @qldfrog...
So who on the market is actually a winner, and which stocks are the worst affected by hysteria and BS news feed.
Really hoping for panic but keeping trading tomorrow as i want to start getting bargains.
Still not in cheap let alone bargain territory ..
Yeap, I think of another one too i put a buy order for tomorrow
Aren't you assuming that the cost of American labour is cheaper than the cost of foreign labour + whatever tarrif is required?
And what about automation? Do "modern" factories employ the same number of workers as they did 20 years ago?
I think the relationship is more complicated than what has been suggested so far, hence the volatile response from the markets.
Having seen the economics of a few manufacturing / processing / refining operations the big ongoing 3 costs are materials, labour and energy. All that varies is what order they're in which comes down to the product being produced.And what about automation? Do "modern" factories employ the same number of workers as they did 20 years ago?
SPY bottomed at 482. 480 buy didn't quiiiiite fill.I've done staggered buy orders in increments of 15.
525, 510, 495, 480, 465, 450. Amounts increasing each time to keep my average buy price chasing the actual market price.
If we can tell boards to have women in minorities and homosexuals then eventually we're going to be telling employers to hire humans not robots.In about 10 years from now we might have cyborg robots replacing people with jobs like the terminator movies. They won't need to be paid a salary, they would just technicians to give them a grease and oil change or program them. Your future operation might be performed by cyborg surgeons who could do the job more accurately then human surgeons.
I've heard of fully automated McDonalds restaurants in America being trialled, but I expect more automation to replace menial jobs in the future like burger flipping jobs.
Having seen the economics of a few manufacturing / processing / refining operations the big ongoing 3 costs are materials, labour and energy. All that varies is what order they're in which comes down to the product being produced.
For the West to be competitive, energy and labour productivity are the keys in terms of price, along with product quality and reputation that affords some pricing power. Because material costs are much the same anywhere and we're not going to, indeed ideally don't want to, compete on labour cost per hour worked. So it's energy and labour productivity on the cost side, and ideally gaining some ability to charge a premium via reputation etc.
The other big cost is building the factory in the first place. That's a very "lumpy" cost however, it's not one that's incurred on a daily basis so once built tends to not factor in to the day to day operating decisions. It's obviously a real cost though.
Fundamentally making it work is the domain of technical people both engineers and trades. There aren't a lot of "grunt" jobs in a modern factory, and there's not much use for anyone who can't at least read a line diagram unless they're good at selling the product or something else useful like that.
As for the bikes, suffice to say mere mention of the word brings up painful memories. Some things are better left in the 1980's - I'll stick to walking, driving or I'll catch the bus. Less painful that way.
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