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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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Blackvegetable » 59 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

59 minutes ago

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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**** you ***
 

Blackvegetable » Today, 6:27 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 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

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No thoughts, etc...copy/paste.

Blackvegetable » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

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 » 3 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

3 minutes ago

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 » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

4 minutes ago

Is this about the numbers?

**** question. Always hiding.

1. "post the rule."  First you post the rule about hiding 100% of the time.

Blackvegetable » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

6 minutes ago

This is how **** stupid you are...

You don't understand the concepts in practice - even in the abstract. The base of the entire **** pyramid is facts...

They precede what you ignorantly refer to as "thoughts"

Is there a rule against you interpreting and applying the facts yourself?

Hence, the pyramid. 

Blackvegetable » 25 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

25 minutes ago

Is this about the numbers?

Yeah, numbers like $350 BILLION in new subsidies EVERY **** YEAR for subsidies that go to insurance companies rather than to the American people as Trump has suggested.  
Care to explain why that is, when Obama promised you gullible idiots that it would SAVE you $2,500 a year, and you could keep your doctor and healthcare insurance if you liked them?

You want to continue throwing good money after bad when you now know how you were lied to by that socialist scumbag to get it passed?  ONLY DEMOCRATS voted for it and passed it without a single Republican vote, so NOW YOU OWN IT!  And if it needs more money?  THEN INCREASE THE PREMIUMS FOR THOSE LIKE YOU WHO WERE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY IT! 
See how well you like it then!
 

Zeets2 » 7 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

7 minutes ago

Yeah, numbers like $350 BILLION in new subsidies EVERY **** YEAR for subsidies that go to insurance companies rather than to the American people as Trump has suggested.  
Care to explain why that is, when Obama promised you gullible idiots that it would SAVE you $2,500 a year, and you could keep your doctor and healthcare insurance if you liked them?

You want to continue throwing good money after bad when you now know how you were lied to by that socialist scumbag to get it passed?  ONLY DEMOCRATS voted for it and passed it without a single Republican vote, so NOW YOU OWN IT!  And if it needs more money?  THEN INCREASE THE PREMIUMS FOR THOSE LIKE YOU WHO WERE DUMB ENOUGH TO BUY IT! 
See how well you like it then!

There are Insured Americans and there are Uninsured Americans....the more of the former, the better.

If it is about the numbers, Grifty wanted 500 billion more for the Department of War...




 

Blackvegetable » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

No...


 

Yes...

Enough of your lies. Either give YOUR thoughts or kill yourself. 

Now. 

Blackvegetable » 6 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

6 minutes ago

No...

Level 1 first...

No tours of levels you aren't qualified to access.

Your op, your job. 

Your authors gave level 1. Now you need to do the rest. 

Blackvegetable » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

I've provided the facts, which bear out my earlier Evaluation of facts with which you are entirely unfamiliar.

****. Your authors provided it. You have given no analysis yourself. None. 

 

Blackvegetable » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

I've provided the facts, which bear out my earlier Evaluation of facts with which you are entirely unfamiliar.

Could you change a tire?

Just curious.

Vegas » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

5 minutes ago

Yeah, we know. 


 

that's the problem.

you don't know anything..

Blackvegetable » 15 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

15 minutes ago

that's the problem.

you don't know anything..

Challenge. 

1. Same cop-out

Vegas » 9 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

9 minutes ago

Challenge. 

1. Same cop-out

same cop out.
 

Blackvegetable » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

4 minutes ago

same cop out.

Copies me. Proved my claim that you have no thoughts of your own. 

QED...again...and again...and again...

Blackvegetable » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

4 minutes ago

Are you saying that Level 1 is optional?

So far, you fulfilled my prediction 3 times in a row. 100% accuracy.




Deflected again. You are now deliberately ignoring the other requirements to fit your cowardice. 


1. You will continue to ignore what the pyramid requires of the facts. 

You make my job so easy. Try, will ya?
 

Blackvegetable » Today, 12:16 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 12:16 pm

There are Insured Americans and there are Uninsured Americans....the more of the former, the better.

If it is about the numbers, Grifty wanted 500 billion more for the Department of War...

It's about getting value for our tax dollars, fool!
Giving free healthcare to millions of illegals IS NOT a worthwhile expenditure of our tax dollars!
Using our trillion dollar military to stop a rogue, terrorist regime from building and using nuclear weapons IS A VERY WORTHWHILE expenditure!
And that's a fact, whether ignorant liberals like you like it or not!
 

Zeets2 » Today, 3:18 pm » wrote: ↑

Today, 3:18 pm

It's about getting value for our tax dollars, fool!
Giving free healthcare to millions of illegals IS NOT a worthwhile expenditure of our tax dollars!
Using our trillion dollar military to stop a rogue, terrorist regime from building and using nuclear weapons IS A VERY WORTHWHILE expenditure!
And that's a fact, whether ignorant liberals like you like it or not!

Zeet,

You're a **** idiot