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May 16, 2025 01:00 PM UTC

Trump Time: Prices and Inflation are Rising

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Over at the Get More Smarter Podcast, we’ve been regularly running a segment we call “Trump Time” that is intended to keep our listeners up to date on the more important/ridiculous developments in the administration of President Donald Trump. We’re adding a different version of this segment to Colorado Pols. Enjoy!

 

 

Links:

  • Reuters: “US consumer sentiment slumps, households brace for inflation surge”
  • CNN Business: “Walmart warns it will raise prices because of tariffs”
  • The New York Times: “Consumers Prop Up the Economy. They’re Showing Signs of Strain.”

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  1. Succinct commentary by Nobel Prize Winning economist, Paul Krugman:

    The Trade War Isn’t Over

    The reality is that we’ve gone from a completely insane tariff rate on imports from China to a rate that’s merely crazy. And China accounts for only a fraction of our imports. Tariffs on everyone else are still at 10 percent, a level we haven’t seen in generations. And there are still other shoes to drop: Trump has, for example, been promising tariffs on pharmaceuticals.

    The trade war is still very much on. Anyone who reports otherwise (a) hasn’t done their homework (b) is misleading the public. And while the stock market has to some extent bought into unwarranted optimism, markets with fewer naive investors like oil and bonds don’t seem fooled.

    Given this number, we’d expect Trump’s tariffs after last weekend’s retreat on China to cut overall U.S. trade by roughly 50 percent. Trade with China, which would have been virtually eliminated with a 145 percent tariff rate, would fall by “only” around 65 percent with a 30 percent tariff.

    The interesting question, as I see it, is why so many pundits and reporters — and, it seems, small stock investors — have been sounding the all clear on Trump’s tariffs, when the reality is that all we’ve seen is a modest retreat from complete, destructive insanity to seriously harmful madness.

    It’s hard to avoid the sense that what we’re seeing on tariffs is another version of the sanewashing that Trump has benefited from ever since he entered politics. People just keep wanting to believe that he’s making sense, that he isn’t as ignorant and irresponsible as he seems. But he is.

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