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And yet the doom and gloom of increased prices in line with tariffed amounts aren't happening. Fortunately, for many Americans, their real wages are going up and tax burden is going down.

And thats a great thing - Little extra competition never hurt anyone. If some of us want to buy the more expensive American version of a product now that there may be less of a price gap then so be it.

But it is the other countries paying the tariff when the majority is paid by reducing raw goods prices. That is how this whole thing works and its why we have yet to see material price increases across the board of tariffed products. I'll use this opportunity to again remind the community that...

Why do you think we are producing the tariff products as opposed to suppliers and host manufacturing nations eating the costs of the tariffs by reducing their selling price? When average tariffed rates are 10-15% and price increases to consumers are in the .5-1% range how is this not a win for...

If your goal is is strictly efficiency at all costs then it makes no sense to have effectively any production in the US and shift everything to lower cost areas.

Over time we always get back to the a basic truth. Trump was right. I can't imagine the hysterical nature of some on this forum when Trump struck Iran.

Elaborate please - If costs aren't going up then where is the money coming from on the tariffs.

If prices aren't going up who is paying the tariff? Easy answer here......

Trump got the market to accept 15% tariff baselines and cheer for it. Incredible.

Odd since core inflation metrics are showing cooling despite the 'anticipation' of more printing and tariffs. Usually these things front run wouldn't you say?

You know what is working out? Increasing real wages and non-americans losing out on jobs because of the government juicing both sides of the employment agreement. Just wait till healhcare costs go down because able bodied people are unable to just collect checks.

Narratives being busted in real time - Still lots of shit to get through but we are undoubtedly on the right track after staring into the abyss for a while.

Lets ignore classified information like Putin held back damaging information on HRC.

They know the crimes they committed. Lawyer up suckers

Who is seeing its not working? The non-americans who are getting cuts while americans in the labor force is increasing with increasing real wages?

Fair enough - I dont' share the contention that is the only way to evaluate. Biden got endless printing and low cost labor. Trump is doing things that should be anti expansionary to market prices but the opposite is happening.

Oh - You think markets are the only indication of a strong economy. Cute

He will always have a brain block of leftism but he isn't fanatical like the new age so you can actually work with him. But the results on the ground have been very clear. Economists predictions on the tariffs are going as well as health experts predictions of COVID.

He is in the Epstein files since I'm sure this is a detailed account of all of Epsteins associations and doings.

Forgive you for what exactly? Allowing propaganda to determine your base case on an outcome?