<p>carmakers are going to raise prices to maintain marketshare? I thought that no one is buying new cars today even at the current prices? If they raise them , wdn’t that just make it harder to sell units?</p>
<p>ford’s stock is up . Are units sold up commensurately?</p>
<p>as far as food and gas goes: they are not discretionary commodities such as a car ( mine 215k and going still; knock wood); also . gas is crazy since a bunch of unstable shieks control THAT. isnt a lot of our food produced right here in the US of A? Aside - yes, I heard that ag is one of the better industries nowadays. maybe i s/ lose the IT gig and head back to the farm (after my grandparents on both sides left it at the turn of the last century). oops, I probably could not get a job THERE since I’d be competing with people south of the border. </p>
<p>Note to mod: this might SEEM off topic to the outsourcing subject of the thread, but eagle thought that valuation of the USD might be important when considering whether a foriegn service such as outsourcing might be cost efficient and therefore used - I think. eagle, please clarify the connection to outsourcing. if foriegn labor gets too costly, then the US corporations might go back using (now newly) poor U S of A people?</p>