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2025-06-13 Economy

Trump tariffs claim first major victim as auto-parts giant files for bankruptcy

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [205 views ] Top

#1 Marelli has been having operations and financial problems for years (let's just say that the way they ran their business wasn't as efficient as it could have been).

So now they've found a scapegoat.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-06-13 00:36|| 2025-06-13 00:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Companies that can't make a profit without slave labor shouldn't exist.

Good riddance.

Posted by Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-06-13 02:03|| 2025-06-13 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 TESLA is coming out with the S2 soon. Somewhere between 10,000 and 13,000 $.

Posted by 3dc 2025-06-13 02:20|| 2025-06-13 02:20|| Front Page Top

#4 CEO David Slump?

Unfortunate name

Posted by Frank G 2025-06-13 02:59|| 2025-06-13 02:59|| Front Page Top

#5 British Exports To US Suffer Record Slump As Tariffs Take Effect

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-13 08:31|| 2025-06-13 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 So now they've found a scapegoat.

Propped up by media like DM trying to put a millstone on Trump's neck.

I've been documenting my scapegoat farms; most recent was purchasing a custom piece of equipment, rep was trying to sell something on lot, which is fine, but he said one custom build went quickly, but the other...it took a long time because of tariffs. My eyes rolled so hard I thought I was winning a game of Risk.

Posted by swksvolFF 2025-06-13 10:22|| 2025-06-13 10:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Classic American truck maker grovels as it brings back an icon: 'We got it wrong'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-06-13 14:26|| 2025-06-13 14:26|| Front Page Top

#8 "which supplies components for Nissan and Stellantis"
Talk about hitching your wagon to a stump...

Posted by ed in texas 2025-06-13 18:20|| 2025-06-13 18:20|| Front Page Top

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