Lots More on the Ongoing Mess That Is Boeing
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Feel like we might have made a mistake recording this episode on Wednesday, October twenty third, which is the day that we're awaiting the strike vote over at Boeing.
Oh yeah. But you know Yes, that's right. That's annoying timing. But on the other hand, what I would say is that Boeing's issues seem so deep, et cetera, that the strike is only one angle. It's another trouble. So even if there were you know, even if there were all the you know, by the time people listen to this and there's some resolution, I don't think there's gonna be some resolution to the issues at Boeing writ large.
Well, the good news, I guess, in terms of timing is also that we had Boeing earnings just yesterday. So you can kind of see a lot of those issues that you are alluding to directly on the balance sheet. Do you wanna know some some good news from my personal life?
Yeah, please.
Okay. The correlation between Boeing and Southwest, their biggest customer, is finally breaking down. So Southwest shares are up. Boeing is still pretty depressed. My dad used to fly for Southwest, so he still has a lot of Southwest stock. So So
there's a disclaimer. This is a this is a financial disclaimer. That's all right. This is what
also this is what constitutes good news for me nowadays.
I did a deadlift. One, two, three.
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Why is Boeing’s stock down 40% and what are the headline crises?
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We did an episode, I don't know, maybe three or four weeks ago, and the title of that one was The Ongoing Mess That Is Intel. And this one I think we're gonna title The Ongoing Mess That Is Boeing. But it's interesting, I don't know if you saw earlier this week, I think it might have been Monday, Greg Ipp over at the Wall Street Journal wrote this call that is basically like The crises at Intel and Boeing are a national emergency. And this is something that I've thought specifically. Sometimes random people who know that I like cover stuff like this for work, they'll say, what are you worried about these days? And this is usually what I go to first, that we're in an era of we're trying to revitalize US manufacturing, and yet the two defining flagship US manufacturers are deeply struggling.
And what does that say about institutional operations in the nature of US capitalism? These are the companies that I think about first when I worry.
You know who else thinks about them a lot? Richard Abulafia, who is of course a managing director at Aerodynamic Advisory. We've had him on before talking about both Boeing and Embraer.
One day we're gonna talk and it'll be good news. We're gonna talk about something going really right. But I don't think I don't think today is that day yet.
Yeah, jetliners delivered to happy customers and and waiting flying public members. That would be terrific news to
doors staying on planes, things like that. Well,
that's asking
a lot. But yeah, okay. Yeah.
So in terms of what you're watching at Boeing, I just mentioned the strike vote is coming later today.
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