Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "CNBC" channel.

  1. Translation: we're doing pretty well because we gave good service at reasonable prices. Now we're getting to be one of the big fellas, so we can send all our planes back to Boeing -- get them refitted: narrower seats, less leg-room, bigger bonuses for the bosses.
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  2. I remember when Doctor Pepper first arrived in Japan, early or mid '74 I think it was. I was operating ten or eleven coin laundries around Tokyo at the time and I had soft-drink machines in most of them. Doctor Pepper went on the air, into the machines, and out into the world. For two weeks it outsold everything else combined. Then it dropped dead. They tried it. The didn't like it. Thunkk!
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  3. To call this guy a halfwit would be an insult to the good and useful number 0.5. To call him a crook would be repeating old news.
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  4. Coming soon from CNBC: "Yukon's sugar industry stuggles"!
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  5. I stand corrected: mostly AirBus, some Embraer. The point remains the same, they specifically, and the industry as a whole, have reduced legroom and the general level of amenity a good deal over the years.
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  6.  @rollling7523  ...in Australia.
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  7.  @petercdowney  Nope. Iceland is the green one. Greenland is the one covered in a thousand feet of ice. Also, steel-workers make iron and ironworkers erect steel.
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  8.  @OhhDaarBenJePerry  That doesn't seem to be supported by the evidence: they have grown into the big leagues exactly by not skimping on the seats, etc. They haven't been in the business of "keeping up." They have been in the business of catching up and surpassing. The point which you are missing, in one message after another, is the irony of the fact that they are, on succeeding, destroying exactly the foundation of their success to now.
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  9. The guys know that the Great Wall of China was to keep the Mongols out, right? Did they maybe miss the bit about how the Mongols have ruled China for most of the last thousand years?
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  10. Got news for you, Del: the world is round. It's a globe. It's all connected.
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  11. 1.) Japanese traffic drives on the left, so steering wheels are on the right-hand side of each car. No American cars come with right-hand-drive steering wheels. 2.) "When car-makers get into trouble, the Japanese hire engineers, the Americans hire lawyers." The American family sedan of today is the Honda-McLaren of 1975. Soeichiro Honda, like Henry Ford, was a race-car nut, and Honda Motor has been 20% British from back in the 50 cc. motorbike days; Honda went into partnership with the most advanced racing car developers to make today's high tech cars. 3.) American cars have dominated one Japanese niche. Japanese gangsters and sumo champions overwhelmingly drive Lincolns. Pyrrhic victory: not many people want to imitate gangsters.
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  12. And when Apple collapses? There's an answer to this: everything else will bump or swell or skidaddle over a bit to make up the space. But it's going to be interesting to watch.
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  13.  @chech5774  How is that not fair? Since when did blacks and Hispanics stop being part of the American system? What you're saying is exactly the same thing as the most extreme critics of American education say: your system doesn't serve all its students.
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  14. Awww. I weep for poor wikkle Donnie Fats. But not very much.
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  15. Mopar, Your real problem is, when there's a real challenge to be faced the Japanese call an engineer, the American guy calls a lawyer.
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  16.  @OhhDaarBenJePerry  But they have, according to the video, spent money to get closer, i.e. less. Keep your eye on the main point, OK?
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  17.  @maxcoughlin5561  Wanna buy a bridge? You can probably put toll booths on both the Manattan and the Brooklyn side, get 'em coming and going.
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  18.  @KirkBuchanan  You don't seem to be paying attention. Netflix and Blockbuster are in entirely different businesses. Blockbuster rented physical goods, CDs. They weren't put out of business by Netflix; they died when their technology became obsolete.
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  19. "In the belly of Jesus, go." - Cromwell.
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  20. Camo? Right: stuff that's intended to make fake indistinguishable from fake fake.
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  21. Warning to investors: if all these weapons get used, there isn't going to be any business replacing them.
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  22. For the rich.
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  23. Nice thing about Cheetos and suchlike snacks: they weigh next to nothing. Expect Tesla to conquer the feather transportation industry. A solid eight, even eleven, trucks!
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  24. Toledo, Michael Parker obviously knows that. Poor whiny Stephen G doesn't.
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  25. Naked Dave, It's a Japanese company, and still largely run by the very competent Toyoda, with a D, family. On the other hand, they learned a good deal of their business from two Americans, Henry Ford and most importantly W. Edwards Deming. (Google him. Everybody!) America gets it right sometimes. America forgot Deming from maybe 1945 to 1990, a crucial generation, and is only getting back in the game now. If it wasn't for all the immigrant brains, American industry would be totally, like really totally, down the drain instead of just badly wounded. Things are not as bad now as they were in the double-dip recession of 1991, and the rationality of the Obama years has helped America a lot. What happens next with this ignorant burbling dumbnutz in the White House, nobody knows.
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  26. THX, The China market is the only thing keeping the Buick brand alive -- and since the Cadillac is pretty much a Buick with a different badge, you can count on a big percentage of them -- parts certainly, whole cars perhaps -- coming in from China soon. And there is nothing, nothing, Hair Furor can do about it.
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  27. "In the US" at last! But a Chinese company after all...
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  28. Shall we break it to these folks, that all that rain started out as sea water just a little while back?
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  29. Their market didn't shrunk, it shrank.
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  30. NASCAR may take more guts. Golf more brains -- unless you take rich guys' and Presidents' mulligans, that is.
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  31. Kudlow, Lighthizer, and Ross. These guys failed the tryouts to succeed the Three Stooges, so now they run the economy. And Janet Yellen, the last grown-up seen in any responsible position in Washington,* has left the building... * Secretary of Defense Mattis a possible exception.
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  32. More people "postpone my trip to the dealership" and "families are buying more cars each on the average" are two claims that contradict each other. Fire the writer. Hire some copy editors.
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  33.  @pilerks1  I am not the David Lloyd-Jones who ws among AA's founders, but it was always pleasant to have their people look at my ticket and sorta strighten up their spines in salute.
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  34.  @petercdowney  Peter, In that case, I don't understand what you mean by "their respective names." Nor do I understand why you're agreeing with Jacob now while you seemed to be correcting him back then.
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  35. One-bomb coffins. No military value. Mere diplomatic symbols, useful for pushing around the board to show unsubtle messages.
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  36.  @filthysoap  Perfectly true. The Great Wall as we know it today was built by Deng Xiao Ping in 1987 for the tourist industry. In fact, it is named after the Great Wall Hilton Hotel, which it is located next to. Next question.
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  37. TrueBag, You gottit. I've known member of his family, visited one of his companies in Chicago, and my experience backs you 100%+++. 'Course the Trump economy is only starting to exist about now. Up to now it's still the Yellen-Obama proposition still coasting forward.
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  38. Wall to wall nonsense. Just don't step in the benghazi: some people just don't clean up after their dogs.
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  39. kazzicup a.) The election.is over. b.) Hillary is not a crook. c.) Anybody who believes what Trump tells them is a fool: he has spent his whole life betraying his wives, his suppliers, his banks, his backers and his investors. Right now he's busy betraying the people who voted for him. Bet on it. -dlj.
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  40. XYZ, The election's over now -- and you're still on display as delusional across the board. Wince Foster? Hey, have you found te Big Foot yet? -dlj/
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  41. How do we get from the pickup truck at 4:02 (with a WWI tank photo to illustrate "WWII") to the 1963 Thunderbird without any mention of the 1958~60 Edsel, "A monarch sucking a lemon"? Could MSNBC please post a note saying who was fired for this rather stunning bit of omission?
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  42. Attractive message -- until you consider that a ver-ree high percentage of all that Janet Yellen funnymoney ended up in the portfolios of the .01%. OK, it was necessary to do something, given that McConnell's was obstructing -- or is "subverting" the better word? -- any recovery from the GOP disaster of 2008. But surely any kind of "easing" or other neo-Keynesian managerial program has to have some solid undergrowth of egalitarian theory to it if it is to be taken seriously?
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  43.  @SporkPlays212  It may very well soldier on for centuries. The stock price, however, will return to Earth. Maybe they'll change the name from Apple to Blueberry.
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  44. Wow! People never knew about chips. Thank you for enlightening us, AMD. We would never have known it without you. (CNBC is Nutsy the Squirrel stupid to tell us AMD became a second source for Intel "by the 1980s." That was its main role from the very beginning.)
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  45. CNBC, Solar City wasn't "thinly stretched." It was stretched thin. It's called a predicate adjective. Look it up, half-wits.
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  46. Of course steel is a tiny little bit of the whole world economy. And bourbon? How much Bourbon is there in Kentucky, Wilbur? How does the Midwest feel about Brazilian soybeans?
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  47. Step on the gas an turn left. For the Confederates out there, "left" the foot with the hay on it, "right" is straw.
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  48. So embarrassing for poor Donnie Fats with Jack Ma, meeting a genuine billionaire and having to smile...
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  49. Down 1.9%? That's Horrible! Horriboriborrible! At that rate they'll be down 62% in fifty years flat! And in fifty years? Why, no way anybody's going to think of anything else to sell in that time, is there? Hey, do people get paid to make videos like this? Can I get in on the gravy train?
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  50. Bitfinex was not a "virtual" exchange. It was a genuine exchange online. Doesn't anybody here even speak English?
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  51. No billionaire in that picture, Pete. He's a straightforward Trumper: lie, lie, lie and lie.
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  52. Not "they" the US, Eddie. Lighthizer and Ross, now joined by Kudlow. That's not us. Sheesh, the only reason Kevin O'Leary isn't in there is Trump prefers troikas.
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  53. That's OK, theyll pur in a little vroom-vroom noise machine for you, Missie.
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  54. The irony of being challenged by China: Nissan -- Nippon Sangyo -- started out as the Japanese Army's little pet in Manchukuo, the Japanese Empire's occupied Manchuria. It's a Chinese, not a Japanese, company by ancestry.
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  55. Saying we are "on the edge of a trade war" is as stupid as saying WWII started at Dunkirk.
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  56. Monty Python brainwashed?
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  57.  @thefogg  sheer. Different proposition.
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  58.  @stepfrom1500  Nope: radiation: Coal is like any other rock or fossil, a source of radioactive elements that go up the chimney when you burn it..
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  59.  @YIHAOWang-h8u  什么？你在当地的土耳其浴室找不到门卫的工作？
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  60. The main explanation here is not quite right. It was to keep the slavery-supported states' wealthy rulers happy. And somebody needs to break it to the Heritage Foundation that Bush was elected over Gore by a vote of 5-4.
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  61. You need to teach your robot that "1/5" is pronounced "one fifth," not "one five." CNBC needs to fire the person responsible for posting this without listening to it and correcting ver-ree stupid errors.
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  62. It's in orbit around the Sun -- a mere matter of perspective.
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  63. Your header is incorrect. Shipping is not particularly volatile: its volume varies very strictly in tandem with all other economic, i.e. with seasonal variation and majestic annual drift. (Maersk, btw, are stunningly competent and a pleasure to do business with.) The voices inserted, talking about volatility and price increases, are industry shills, repeating industry talking points. Prices paid by shippers, however, will be volatile in places. In my experience, shipping forwarders and brokers are the most successful bunch of thieves since Ali Baba's Forty. The ones who don't need to go to jail should probably be locked away in padded cells at their local Hospital for the Badly Confused.
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  64. Did you subtract out the weight of the many dozens of containers we each use part of? An empty 40-foot container weighs about 4.1 tons -- and carries no more than forty cubic feet of light-weight products like food, so... A saw a five ton truck delivering milk to my local supermarket the other day, btw.
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  65. Chrysler never really existed: it was always just Dodge with fat added.
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  66. People figgered out that five bucks for a paper cup of joe is insane. Who knew?
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  67. "Tradecraft" is simply a synonym for "technique," folks, the technique of "our trade," maybe. And the capital of China is Beijing, not any Bayzhing. "Jinj" means "capital." "Zhing" means some illiterate furriner trying to sound in-group, and failing. Finally, somebody needs to tell poor Senator Warner that the word he's looking for is either ambit or orbit, but not gambit.
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  68. I doubt that there are sixty million planes in the whole world. Could CNBC maybe check and see if some sneaky planes in the US are taking off more than once each a year? I think that might be how they get up to sixty million takeoffs...
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  69. "How China’s New AI Model DeepSeek Is Threatening U.S. Dominance" You don't think maybe "dominance" is the wrong word to use about competent open source research? And how about the thought that seeking dominance might be a counter-productive atmosphere to foster in an important field?
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  70. Half true, Guillevem. Ford, a brilliant mechanic with at least three of the greatest engineers of the century on his side, was beaten by Sloan, the genius of marketing and organization, who put General Motors together. (Sloan then managed to lose most of his own personal fortune in an ill-advised attempt to "correct" what he sw as the market's underappreciation of his genius: good at management does not necessarily mean good at financial speculation...)
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  71. At 7:12, "It's important to note that Anne's on the Board but is not involved in..." Nope. "On the Board of Directors but is not involved in X" does not exist. Even if you go fishing and don't even look at your mail from the day you get on any Board, your views, or what people imagine your views might be, will affect their behaviour, and your own behaviour while "out fishing" will be changed by the knowledge that you can return and flex your legally mandated powers as a Board member. Long short: this woman is babbling nonsense.
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  72.  @Hobinator17  Hobsie, "It all comes down to" is one of those give-away phrases. It always and everywhere means "Here comes a half-truth if ot an outright lie." What the public wants and what the supplier offers may very well be quite different, and in the few cases where we're very very lucky a market emerges to let us reach some sort of compromise. I think that's the best one can ever hope for. managed expectations are your more likely outcome.
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  73. @jordanhurley7307 And vice-versa.
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  74.  @petercdowney  Yes, Peter. That's what I just explained to you. The problem you need to work on is getting your story straight. Do you agree or disagree with the guy you were first correcting then claiming you'd agreed with? My suggestion would be you just go back and erase your first mistake and all the follow-ups will vanish with it.
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  75. And incidentally, no, they didn't "get the names the wrong way around." The climate has varied over the centuries, parts of Greenland have been green and then become uninhabitable. Whole civilizations have bloomed and collapsed there. Our current "Iceland is green and Greenland is icy" thingie is a temporary joke. They could both look like Bermuda a hundred years from now -- and by that time the Gulf Stream might be diverted to the North-West Passage, and they may be skiing in Madrid in July.
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  76. Here's my idea: let's charge them money for the electricity they use.
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  77. Kirk, You don't seem to be paying attention. They're not a "true monopoly." They're, uh, competing with FedEx and UPS. Three companies among many competitors. Competing. That's what stops monopolies, even duopolies sometimes, from happening. Get it?
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  78.  @JonathanMaxwell27  Four majors (UPS, FedEx, the Post Office, and Amazon) and a whole lot of minors in package delivery is not an oligopoly -- and if Amazone hadn't been there it's pretty easy to imagine Japan's Red Hat or some European company moving in, had there been a real non-economic situation. What would be interesting to see might be legislation making it 1940s-style easy for the Teamsters to get into Amazon's hair.
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  79.  IkeGee1973  Um, Ike, perhaps you missed it: Sears just went belly up. They were trying to compete with Walmart.
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  80.  IkeGee1973  Poor Ike, I think my reading is in fine shape, thank you. I read your suggestion, and my thought was that since Sears chad demonstrated itself incompetent in the market it was a pretty stupid suggestion. They couldn't stand on their own feet. Why would they be a serious proposition up against the demonstrated hyper-competence of Amazon?
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  81. Trump goes to war -- against Boeing, against FORD and GM, against everybody who uses steel. Worse, with his withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership he goes to war against the industries in which America is strongest, Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, Hollywood, the whole information- and research-based 30 or 40 percent of the economy. All of these sectors, companies, investors and workers depend upon patents, copyrights, and the rule of law and respect for negotiation. TPP protected these, and with a strong -pro-US bias. Trump is undermining them all.
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  82. English, like Chinese, is a tonal languagem though in a slightly different way: in English the tones convey the meanigs of phrases or sentences, not single syllables as in the Chinese system. At 6:57, you don't mean "even BIG banks," you mean "even big BANKS."
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  83. 'Course part of the reason energy demand was growing so fast back in the 1950s, as the guy correctly says, is that up to a quarter of America's electricity went into Hanford and the TVA for the separation of bomb-usable uranium and the creation of plutonium.
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  84. 2:30: Every X was... All the Xes were... If you can't identify the subject of your sentence you probably don't know what you're talking about, do you?
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  85. Case in point: a minute later you say "In 1955 the first McDonald's opened in Illinois." Not true. The third or so McDonald's, perhaps the first franchised Mcdonald's, the first McDonald's not owned by a McDonald, but not the first. Sorry, folks, you don't know what you're talking about. You're just making it up.
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  86. To repeat, Mr. Trump, These are taxes paid by Americans, not Chinese.
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  87. Scary stuff! And one oddity that struck me: the prevalence of "giant houses" in the suburban sky shots. Those huge houses -- with no gardens -- squatting almost to the proerty line in serried mindless identical ranks. Ugh! How do people put up with eighbours so close? How do people know which house is theirs when they come home at night? The kids when they come home from school? There's beena generation-long failure of taste here, it seems to me: tens of illions of peple for some reason buying half an acre of house why? Because it's bigger than their parents? Just ver-ree strange houses, everywhere, everywhere, and then more everywhere...
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  88. "The average repairable vehicle’s headlight price has climbed from $307.73 USD in 2015 to $418.36 USD so far in 2019, a rise of 36 percent over just a four-year span." Google is your friend. Admittedly this is a steep increase from the $38 parts and $75 labor which were typically the top-out cost with mere bulb headlights.
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  89. Coal is filth.
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  90. How come they're allowed to sell ladders without hand rails and safety belts?
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  91. @Zhuohui Li 请注意：我们不是在谈论中国历史。 我们在谈论特朗普的愚蠢墙。 这里的重点只是长城没有让蒙古人离开。 以同样的方式，特朗普的愚蠢墙不起作用。
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  92. 这里的重点只是长城没有让蒙古人远离中国。
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  93.  @screamneagle8420  Plus or minus. Google up Qing Mongols. They never vanished.
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  94. 5:27 "One thing they're paying attention to are their test score averages." Skools wich can tell singular from plural is scored higher.
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  95. Data Point du jour: Dr. Pepper entered Japan the same year I started building coin laundries there, 1972. I put drink machines in my coin laundries whenever I could, to the horror of Japanese prognosticators, and I put Dr. Pepper in the machines when it came on the market. In the first seven stores where this occurred, Dr. Pepper outsold all other drinks, beating Coca-Cola by 50% -- for the first week or ten days. Then its sales went to roughly zero.
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