Really curious on how it will blow-back on Americans. Because, make no mistakes, it will.
True, the shareholders will take a pay cut too, because something less than 100% of American consumers will just suck it up without changing their behavior. But in aggregate, we will all save less.
If inflation takes off again, maybe eventually there's some monestizing of debt. But in less than 4 years these tariffs will go away, which is why companies won't spent billions of dollars investing in state side manufacturing that'll take maybe 5 years to plan and build. Therefore I'm not sold on the montizing debt motivation yet.
FRB won't reduce interest rates if there's inflation alone. They'd only reduce interest rates if the economy also slows down into recession territory.
That's the short term view.
In the long term view, they are the biggest tax increase in the history of the country, therefore they are potentially the biggest tax decrease in the history of the country. Political fodder, even for a corpse.
(c) Should any trading partner take significant steps to remedy non-reciprocal trade arrangements and align sufficiently with the United States on economic and national security matters, I may further modify the HTSUS to decrease or limit in scope the duties imposed under this order.
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"I can do whatever I want, whenever I want. Bow and appease me".
It's impressive they got to forty odd Presidents with only one civil war so far, but it's just luck and it didn't last.
Tariffs are a tax. Tax on us, the people buying goods.
It's a massive tax increase. People are slowly waking up to that fact.
Rolling back the tariffs is giving everyone a tax cut. Well, tax cut back to baseline of what everyone expected.
As people realize that they are the ones paying the tariffs, this is going to be very unpopular.
As example, Daimler stated, they will cut cheapest models from export to US, so some segment will got less concurrent market, and probably prices will raise.
Probably, this is because Daimler have much higher profits on expensive models, so they could just lower profits on them. Other variant, also possible, expensive niches are more tolerant to price raise.
For small countries, tariff raise nearly guarantee prices rise, but US is big country, things are not so simple.
1. has no US parts in the supply chain
2. has a importer that is willing to sacrifice itself for the greater good
A faint drop of hope in an intergalactic ocean of despair.
Be calm, ask right questions and you will got truth.