Tariffs and Consumer Prices Insights
…to full pass-through. Notably, tariffs on Canada and Mexico contribute approximately 45 percent of the total price effect. The results focus on direct effects of tariffs on a quarter of…
…to full pass-through. Notably, tariffs on Canada and Mexico contribute approximately 45 percent of the total price effect. The results focus on direct effects of tariffs on a quarter of…
…effects are even more appalling, more permanent, and appear at far lower levels than we ever thought. For starters, it turns out that childhood lead exposure at nearly any level…
…to see more of the effects of the tariffs before adjusting interest rates. Those remarks are what kicked off President Trump’s reaction. Trump is not the first President to prefer…
…individual provisions’ distributional effects finds that households with incomes in the bottom quintile received only $100, while households with incomes in the top 1 percent received $61,500. This skewed distribution…
…a profit. But because of automation, manufacturers don’t need that many workers, so the profits will be distributed in a very regressive way.” Enduring tariff effects Since its initial announcement,…
…you know, I have been looking at hard “high frequency” data to see if any of the effects of Tariff-palooza! have shown up yet. And so far, the signs are…
Weekly Indicators for May 19 – 23 at Seeking Alpha (plus bonus charts) – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The effects of Tariff-paloooza!…
…of the effects of the reconciliation bill passed by the House of Representatives at the end of May. The CBO finds the bill’s provisions impacting Medicaid and the Affordable Care…
…focused in on would be to require greater disclosures of side effects of a drug within each ad — likely making broadcast ads much longer and prohibitively expensive — or…
…and the threat and the effects (of tariffs) that we don’t know yet.” The Trump White House has sharply ramped up the pressure on Powell to reduce borrowing costs, with…