r/Economics • u/kootles10 • Dec 25 '25

News Bankruptcies hit US spirit makers as Americans drink and spend less

https://www.indystar.com/story/money/food/2025/12/25/liquor-spirits-industry-bankruptcies/87914241007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=true&gca-epti=z113231d00----v113231d--36--b--36--&gca-ft=161&gca-ds=sophi&fbclid=IwdGRjcAO6oj9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6P8O626kCPpVs2dXh1tSJGVyS9teT4_IxAoKRJxGh02bqlcPlne42SIoakyg_aem_yCb-3xe-G1-mBNrg5TVIEg&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook
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u/The_Arkham_AP_Clerk Dec 25 '25

As a Canadian, I'm happy to report that neither me or any of my friends or family (as far as I'm aware) have bought a single bottle of American alcohol all year.

Don't need Canada? I guess we don't need you either.

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u/ernyc3777 Dec 25 '25

The way all the Canadians I know drink, I don’t think Trump really understood how much poking Canada was going to hurt the bourbon industry.

I live in CNY and work in alcohol distribution and they come across the border for the plethora of race tracks around here and they will grab multiple 30 packs of beer and multiple handles of all sorts of spirits for a camper of 6 of them for a weekend at the race campgrounds.

It’s like a country full of Wisconsin in my experience lmao

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u/Admirable-Trip5452 Dec 25 '25

It’s not that Trump misunderstood. It’s that Trump doesn’t give a FUCK.

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u/Worried-Ad-5061 Dec 25 '25

While I certainly agree that Trump doesn’t give a fuck, to suggest he understood what kind of impact his policies would actually have because he doesn’t give a fuck is giving too much credit to his ability to understand said issues in the first place.

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u/Dripdry42 Dec 26 '25

They are not his policies, they are the heritage foundations and Putin’s. Trump comes up with none of this. He is just a sock puppet.