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Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am » wrote: Federal Reserve: Without Tariffs, Inflation Would Have Dropped to Pre-Pandemic Levels During 2025 

New study finds that tariffs were responsible for the "entirety of the excess inflation in the core goods category."

Tariffs implemented last year by President Donald Trump's administration are entirely to blame for the recent surge in prices for consumer and household goods.
 

Those tariffs have raised core goods prices by 3.1 percent, according to a new study by a trio of economists at the Federal Reserve. Those higher consumer prices were the result of retailers passing the cost of tariffs along the supply chain. 

As of February 2026, the tariffs "can explain the entirety of the excess inflation in the core goods category since January 2025," the economists concluded. "Our estimates indicate that tariff effects on prices gradually build over time, with cumulative effects seven months after implementation consistent with our theoretical measures of full dollar-for-dollar pass-through."


https://reason.com/2026/04/13/federal-reserve-without-tariffs-inflation-would-have-dropped-to-pre-pandemic-levels-during-2025/?utm_source=Reason+Magazine&utm_campaign=43cde5d1b9-reason_brand%7Cnew_at_reason%7C2026_04_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31d7ef7f57-43cde5d1b9-587966116


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If your post was accurate, the results would have happened in the 4 years Biden was president. It didn't. the opposite came to fruition in the first year of Trumps second term.

before this Iran event was staged by the global countries trying to eliminate America and Israel, the American economy was getting back to what you suggested in your op.

See I did a google search on Global population of this species distribution of numbers alive now. Boggles the nurtured mind, but an instinctive brain can put it into actual proportion rather than relative time logistic people mind intellectual facts cradle to grave.

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