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Fed study finds Trump tariffs backfired

Source: Marketwatch 

President Donald Trump’s strategy to use import tariffs to protect and boost U.S. manufacturers backfired and led to job losses and higher prices, according to a Federal Reserve study released this week. 

“We find that the 2018 tariffs are associated with relative reductions in manufacturing employment and relative increases in producer prices,” concluded Fed economists Aaron Flaaen and Justin Pierce, in an academic paper. 

While the tariffs did reduce competition for some industries in the domestic U.S. market, this was more than offset by the effects of rising input costs and retaliatory tariffs, the study found. 

“While the longer-term effects of the tariffs may differ from those that we estimate here, the results indicate that the tariffs, thus far, have not led to increased activity in the U.S. manufacturing sector,” the study said. 

Tit-for-tat trade retaliation is an idea best relegated to the past, given the presence of globally interconnected supply chains, the Fed researchers found.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fed-study-finds-trump-tariffs-backfired-2019-12-27?mod=home-page
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Its called a strong dollar MC.   

I hope your hatred for Trump considerably shortens your life and puts you out of your misery. :lmao:

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6 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

Federal reserves in the long line of people who are trying to take down trump with #fakenews

 

Good thing he knows more than economists,  generals and basically anyone else in this world.  

Paul Krugman said the market would never recover from Trump and the Generals have been lying about Afghanistan for years. :pc:

He's not making loans or delivering boxes.... so.....

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1 hour ago, Angry ginger said:

Federal reserves in the long line of people who are trying to take down trump with #fakenews

 

Good thing he knows more than economists,  generals and basically anyone else in this world.  

Well so far, Trump has been proven to be more right than many of those economists and generals. 

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Manufacturing is slowing but we are giving out 6 month plus delivery dates and customers are accepting them because they can't do better elsewhere. Local machine shops are poaching workers because they can't keep up with demand with the help they have now. Our customers are spending like drunken sailors, never seen anything like it. Boy this economy sucks. :lol:

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2 hours ago, AKIQPilot said:

Well so far, Trump has been proven to be more right than many of those economists and generals. 

30 years of bad trade policy, and now they’re gonna whine about some short term pain, when the pain had been far wider and more pervasive before the tariffs and Trump confronting the imbalance.  Imagine how much stronger the economy would be if he hadn’t tackled it.  Imagine the long term benefits if he successfully corrects this imbalance.

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25 minutes ago, SSFB said:

More evidence that his supporters are on another level. :lol:

 

I just shook my head.  

But, imagine....if you will.  A dysfunctional party (out of two) that decided to pioneer the new brand of identity politics, only to fall into a trap over and over again of being labeled the fascist, anti-America party while not realizing it but, deciding to embrace the title and run full force with it anyway.  

Welcome to......the Dem Zone!

 

 

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2 hours ago, Stephen Hawking said:

Manufacturing is slowing but we are giving out 6 month plus delivery dates and customers are accepting them because they can't do better elsewhere. Local machine shops are poaching workers because they can't keep up with demand with the help they have now. Our customers are spending like drunken sailors, never seen anything like it. Boy this economy sucks. :lol:

Still very true.

We are on the process side and see the same thing.  If you can get it done fast, you will likely end up regretting it.

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