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Tracy Alloway

πŸ‘€ Speaker
2151 total appearances

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

There's more freight moving.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Industrial America is starting to get a little bit better.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

There's more pallets on the road.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

It looks like trucking has gotten better.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

But it's early days still.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

I just have one last question.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

I guess it's basically about the business environment.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So obviously interest rates are going to be a huge factor out of your control though, et cetera.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

So what can you do about it?

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Weather out of your control.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Oil price is going to be a factor.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Energy price is going to be a factor in any sort of real goods space.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Another thing that's out of your control.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Here's the weird thing.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And I think a lot of people have like, this is the hard thing that a lot of people have a hard time reconciling, which is that like the last couple of years, maybe the last several years, last couple of years, they felt

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Pretty chaotic.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

There's a war going on right now.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

We had this huge trade shock last year, et cetera.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

Some of the tariffs got watered down a little bit, but it was still a high level of uncertainty.

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Brad Jacobs on His Big Bet on Building Insulation

And consumer sentiment's pretty negative, et cetera.