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Colby Cosh: Trump abandons consumer abundance for a surprise austerity agenda

On Wednesday, in the prelude to a cabinet meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump made yet another remark to chill the blood for those concerned about his country. Trump’s cat-and-mouse game of arbitrary changes to American import tariffs is starting to raise concerns about prices and supply chains for consumer goods. The American economy has unexpectedly shrunk in the first 100 days of Trump 2.0, even though workers and businesses are scrambling t…

Tariffs and inflation: Clarifying the complicated * WorldNetDaily * by By Timothy Nash, Anthony Storer, Thomas Rastin & Bob Thomas, Real Clear Wire

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated on April 16, 2025, that President Trump’s tariffs would likely lead to higher rates of inflation. He made this claim before an audience at the Economic Club of Chicago. This somewhat gratuitous statement must be examined in light of sound economic theory: Do tariffs actually cause inflation? Basic Economics Classic economics defines three primary sources of government funding: taxation, debt, and inf…

German expert: Trump's tariffs are a provocation to global economy

The Trump administration is trying to use tariffs to force changes to domestic economic problems and to dismantle economic globalization, said Alexander Rahr, research director of the German-Russian Forum, in an interview with China Media Group.

Economic uncertainty remains amid Trump's tariffs

It's been a month since President Trump announced his worldwide tariffs. Since then, there have been escalations and tariff retribution from other countries, then tariff pauses.

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Tariffs and economic outlook

Although implementation of drastically increased tariffs by the USA on virtually all trading partners in early April was halted later on– except a uniform 10 percent tariff on all trading partners that continues to hold– the level of uncertainty that this has created for economic outlook globally has been intense. Having said that, since China retaliated significantly as a result of immense increase of tariffs from the USA– whereby against the i…