Outlook uncertain, try again later…?
I don’t usually post about current events outside the sphere of pop culture, but in this case the events are broad enough they’re intruding on it. The week before last Dawn and I were at WonderCon and also hearing from friends at another show out of state and the word just kept spreading of a marked slowdown in people buying; like 50% down or worse from last year, even for people who usually do really well.
General consensus? People holding on to their wallets amid the uncertainty of the news, regardless of politics, since even the word from the currently in-charge Right was that there would be pain and sacrifice on the road to greatness.
And that was before April 2nd when the big board of tariffs came out. For better or worse, a lot of small-time and independent creatives have been getting their goods from China in the past decades, and that’s about to end hard. As I write this, the...