bigwave Posted December 31, 2019 Report Share Posted December 31, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, bostonangler said: It's basic economics really... I think that there are two economies running parallel right now; The federal reserve economy, and the Trump economy. (Trump is using the Fed's own numbers and they can't say a word. If the Fed raises rates then the market drops and he can point the finger at the Fed and say "They don't know what they are doing.") The Fed has found a way to devalue our currency to next to nothing in 100 years without one whimper from We The People. Meanwhile, Trump is getting us ready for an economic showdown with the bankers; The Fed needs to be audited and exposed - Then Trump can preside over the bankruptcy of the USA and get us of this fiat system. Lets get back to a sound money system and off the tax and spend system. Peace, Come on RV Edited December 31, 2019 by bigwave finished the post 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonangler Posted January 10, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2020 American businesses and consumers are paying 'approximately 100%' of Trump tariff costs President Trump made over 100 claims about China and tariffs in 2019, stating that Beijing was paying “tremendous amounts of tariffs.” However, new research from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found the opposite. “U.S. tariffs continue to be almost entirely borne by U.S. firms and consumers,” the NBER working paper stated. “Similarly, we also find that the substantial redirection of trade in response to the 2018 tariffs has accelerated.” The Trump administration has placed tariffs on $550 billion worth of imports from China, and China has slapped tariffs on $185 billion worth of imports from the U.S. since the trade war between the two countries began in March 2018. On August 3, 2019, Trump claimed that “our consumer is paying nothing” in regard to the tariffs, but NBER stated that “approximately 100% of these import taxes have been passed on to U.S. importers and consumers.” American consumers and businesses paid at least $42 billion for the tariffs as of October 2019, according to an analysis from Tariffs Hurt the Heartland (THH). In October 2019, the trade war cost an additional $7.2 billion through tariffs, an $1 billion increase from October 2018. View photos US President Donald Trump makes a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach Florida, on December 24, 2019. (Photo: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images) More ‘Bad news for workers hoping that steel tariffs will bring back jobs’ Trump has made several inaccurate claims about the tariffs on China: he’s said that the U.S. is taking in “billions” from China, that the money is being passed along to American farmers bearing the brunt of the retaliatory tariffs, and that the tariffs would boost blue-collar jobs in the U.S. A recent study from the Federal Reserve indicated that the tariffs have actually led to a loss of jobs, especially in manufacturing. “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 Fed study stated. View photos Surrounded by applauding steel and aluminum workers, U.S. President Donald Trump holds up the 'Section 232 Proclamation' on steel imports that he signed in Roosevelt Room the the White House March 8, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) More Steel is one of the industries hit hardest by tariffs, with foreign firms preemptively lowering prices and American firms struggling to compete with the market reaction. Detroit-based company U.S. Steel was forced to lay off 1,545 employees back in December 2019, partially due to struggles from Trump’s steel tariffs. “The data show that U.S. tariffs have caused foreign exporters of steel to substantially lower their prices into the U.S. market,” NBER’s paper stated. “Thus, foreign countries are bearing close to half the cost of the steel tariffs. Since China is only the 10th-largest steel supplier to the U.S. market, these costs have been largely borne by regions like the EU, South Korea, and Japan.” https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tariffs-cost-consumers-163409804.html B/A 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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