[HN Gopher] DOGE's government cuts may hurt business, companies ...
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DOGE's government cuts may hurt business, companies warn investors
Author : howard941
Score : 24 points
Date : 2025-03-09 21:03 UTC (57 minutes ago)
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| howard941 wrote:
| https://archive.ph/okSlz
| downrightmike wrote:
| Nothing they are doing is good for business. All will suffer.
| Think the Military Industrial Complex can't run when agencies,
| the military and our allies won't be able to buy our
| munitions/platforms? Nope, and private business won't need it
| unless they can offload on to local governments at less than
| cost, and cities will be broke without federal funds backing them
| up.
| ty6853 wrote:
| Most of the bombs/munitions the US drops is from the
| perspective of the American worker the equivalent of digging
| holes in the desert.
|
| The way to have more goods and services is to make more goods
| and services. Releasing people from digging holes allows us to
| create more wealth.
| voidfunc wrote:
| It's pretty clear the obvious objective is to cripple the
| economy and buy up the losers for pennies on the dollar then
| also use government money as the carrot to compel surviving
| companies and local governments to adopt policies that are
| favorable to administration insiders.
|
| The new game is how much dick can you suck so someone in power
| smiles upon you.
| xpe wrote:
| I'm looking for predictive economic models out in the open. I
| want to see the underlying assumptions and experiment. I'm not
| even picky about the kind of model: it could be a relatively
| simple linear regression model, a systems dynamics model, a
| complex simulation, or anything in-between. I just want models to
| a focal point of discussion rather than some poorly-explained
| textual interpretation.
|
| I know... I'm asking for too much... this is usually proprietary
| stuff, so people are reluctant to share. But I want to live in a
| world where sensible people can compare models of what might
| happen. We don't have to necessarily agree on the assumptions or
| results. But we could at least be open about why we predict
| various outcomes. That would be better foundation that how we do
| things now, which is really embarrassing for a world with our
| capabilities.
|
| Eventually, I want to live in a world where we have sensible
| discussions about our predictions and about which outcomes are
| more and less favorable.
|
| P.S. If you are building a product or startup doing this, let me
| know. Or let everyone know. I built a product in this general
| area many years ago, but I didn't find product-market fit.
| Anyhow, I just want modeling tools like this to exist; I don't
| care who makes them.
|
| P.P.S. I'm very intentionally not bringing in my political
| philosophy nor level of personal concern here. To be open, I am
| personally affected, as are many of my friends, but I want to
| find some kind of common ground that doesn't make this about my
| particular take on the overall situation.
| trescenzi wrote:
| I mean there's some fed ones. Two are
|
| - GDPNow if you want shorter term:
| https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow
|
| - DSGE if you want longer term:
| https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/policy/dsge#/overview
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