Liberal Forum

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


******* ****? 


viewtopic.php?p=2710355#p2710355

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am

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

******* ****? 

viewtopic.php?p=2710355#p2710355

The Fed said what . . . ?   z z z z z   z   z      z          z

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am

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

******* ****? 

viewtopic.php?p=2710355#p2710355

**** you ***
 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 6:27 am

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

******* ****? 

viewtopic.php?p=2710355#p2710355

No thoughts, etc...copy/paste.

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:12 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:12 am

Who has been telling you this for the past year, **** idiot?

I doubt it was you. Your authors maybe, but I doubt it was you. 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:16 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:16 am

who gives a **** what you doubt?

You're a **** idiot...

It could not have been you. That would have required you to take a stand on something. You don't do that.

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:18 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:18 am

I show you and you kill yourself. 

Deal?

You mean from YOU and not your authors? 

**** yeah. 

You got it. Deal accepted. 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:24 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:24 am

Uninformed opinion fails to rise to Level 1.

Application is Level 3.

 

So, no... you can't prove YOUR prediction. Got it. QED

 

**** christian...

Were you touched by a pastor when you were a child or something? 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:34 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:34 am

Prove that you have made the necessary preparations to kill yourself...

 

Ok, sure. But you are going to have to wait until 10/5/26

No...you fake **** should be fed to large cats...

Yep. you were touched. 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:54 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:54 am

I'm waiting for a lot of stuff..

Just move this to the top of the list...

Just as predicted. Accuses me of what you are guilty of. 
 Number 5. 

10/05/26. Time for you to take what you dish out, hypocrite boy.  
5. Play the victim by pretending you are owed something after ignoring that you evaded for 6 months. Rules don’t apply to narcissists. Always victims

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 9:58 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 9:58 am

November, 2022..

When was "Challenge" created? Long before Nov 2022.

1. You will pretend that it wasn't. 
2. "prove it."          **** your narcissist amnesia. See number 1 ^^^

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:01 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:01 am

The first one I recall was you challenging yourself to read Pynchon.


 

Narcissist amnesia. Just as I predicted. 100% accuracy.     

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:07 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:07 am

If you want to understand the root of @*VegasVagina's bitterness, this is where it began... 

@*VegasVagina asked me to recommend a novel by Thomas Pynchon, America's Shakespeare... 

So I explain that most readers find his big books overwhelming...but a few of his smaller works are quite "accessible"...and I think I recommend Vineland. 

Being @*VegasVagina, he insisted on The Big Game.....the Everest of post ww2 American fiction. For a sense of what a monument Gravity's Rainbow is, read the story of its Pulitzer nomination. 

Pulitzer Jurors Dismayed on Pynchon 

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/08/arch ... roid-share 

900 pgs...the book is a Beast.. 

@*VegasVagina didn't get past the 1st paragraph. 

Try it here 

https://www.tumblr.com/thatfirstpage/49 ... as-pynchon 

Why mention it(other than to illustrate what a cretinous **** @*VegasVagina is, of course)? 

Paul Thomas Anderson is taking a second crack at Pynchon. This time with Vineland. 

https://www.gq.com/story/paul-thomas-andersons-vineland 

I'd read the book first. 

https://archive.liberalforum.net/p/587280

won the Oscar for Best Picture..

WTF is this? Are you just bored? 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:12 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:12 am

Brick.

Look, narcissist boy. You don't stand a chance comprehending my reading list. Not a chance. 


My interest ranges from philosophy to pure mathematics (mainly topology). I read the works of Ancient Greek philosophers in Greek. 

You will lose. So don't even try. 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:19 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:19 am

 

You're **** illiterate..

Were you a reader, you wouldn't be confounded by prepositions..

I don't take this site seriously. I write fast and just post crap. 

Why would I care to edit anything on an online forum. Hell, most of the time I am doing something else while I am posting.

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 6:51 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 6:51 am

Quite an effort...

Thanks. Like copy/paste. Same, same.

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:25 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:25 am

You dumb ****,

You couldn't prompt AI...you're insufficiently literate...

This again. I prove that AI destroyed you with my prompt and you take off a year.

Deal? 

Cannon or Deezer judges. 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:29 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:29 am

No...not at all.

There's Informed Opinion and there's Feelings.

Ask your PhD pals to explain it..

Fee fees?! Not those . . .

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 10:44 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 10:44 am

Yes...like all your posts..

You don't read...your opinions are uninformed....


 

Where are your thoughts? 

QED. Next. 

Blackvegetable » 14 Apr 2026, 6:43 am » wrote: ↑

14 Apr 2026, 6:43 am

Millions of Floridians Will Bear the Brunt of Trump’s Health Cuts

Medicaid cutbacks and the end of enhanced Obamacare subsidies leave patients and hospitals in the state with difficult choices

As this year began, Florida had more enrollees in ACA plans — some 4.5 million — than any other state, largely because of its higher concentration of small businesses, the self-employed and early retirees.

Among them are people like Julee Ellison, 61, who owns a handbag-making business in Manatee County, along the state’s Gulf Coast south of Tampa Bay.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features ... -care-cuts

The foundation’s financials, due May 15, should include the charity’s accounting for the $10 million it received from a state Medicaid settlement, most of which wound up in a political committee intent on defeating the recreational marijuana ballot amendment during the 2024 election — a priority for the governor....

Money spent on a constitutional ballot initiative would be considered lobbying, and money spent on a candidate is political, the experts said. 

Records indicate much of the $10 million went to both. 

After the DeSantis administration steered the money to the Hope Florida Foundation, the charity wired $5 million to Secure Florida’s Future, run by the Florida Chamber of Commerce. It wired another $5 million to Save Our Society From Drugs, a St. Petersburg organization associated with Drug Free America. 

The two nonprofits then sent $8.5 million to Keep Florida Clean, the political committee intent on defeating the recreational marijuana amendment. Attorney General James Uthmeier controlled Keep Florida Clean during the 2024 election to assist the DeSantis administration’s effort to defeat the recreational marijuana amendment. At the time, Uthmeier was Gov. Ron DeSantis’ chief of staff.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-p ... gislature/

They rely on you idiots to do this to yourselves......because you really are that **** stupid...

Only leftist idiots like yourself could possibly favor increasing Obamacare subsidies every year just to prop up what liberals consider the untouchable legacy of their Magic Negro at all costs.  DEMOCRATS ALONE passed the scam of Obamacare, and now you idiots want to try to blame Trump and the Republicans for it's massive failure as they demand to continue throwing more and more billions at their own failed solution to national healthcare insurance.  

Meanwhile, Trump HAS VASTLY IMPROVED Obamacare already by rescinding the illegal mandate that Obama forced on them, and helped the high cost of healthcare immeasurably by gaining huge reductions in the cost of prescription medications, which has saved me personally around $400 a month.  Trump also made the Healthcare Savings Account much better by killing much of it's onerous regulations, and floated the idea of giving newborn American citizens a $1,000 savings account at birth which would grow to be a huge nest egg for these children when they retire.  And of course, every Democrat voted AGAINST those solutions, because they fear the coming total repeal of Obamacare as it continues to fail.

So suck it up, liberal!  You GOT the healthcare insurance that you Democrats demanded!  So either enjoy or shut the **** up about it or admit it was a massive failure and repeal it instead of continuing to lie about it as Obama did in order to pass it!