Trump's Forever Tariffs Kick In, US Consumers Pay

Get Ready to Start Paying Even More as Trump’s ‘Forever’ Tariffs Kick in for the Long Haul

Republished with permission from The Conversation, by Kent Jones, Babson College President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements no longer cause the market gyrations that they did in 2025. But their sticker shock for American consumers is becoming increasingly clear—just as economic sentiment is souring ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections. Many business groups had hoped that the tariff wars would end in February, when the Supreme Court ov…

Trump’s ‘Forever’ Tariffs Are Kicking in for the Long Haul – and US Consumers Are Footing the Bill

Early predictions that consumers would bear most of the burden of Trump's tariffs are proving to be true.

Howard Lutnick Claims Trump's Tariffs Are 'Winning The Day'

Never mind that the U.S. lost 11,000 manufacturing jobs in July. Here's Trump's Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick blowing smoke up everyone's rears on this Thursday's Kudlow on Fox Business Network. LUTNICK: Well, I'm here for car week in Monterey and these 232 tariffs are winning the day. I mean, I've never been more popular than I am at car week because these tariffs are bringing auto manufacturing home and it feels so good and all the auto m…

Trump's Forever Tariffs Kick In, US Consumers Pay

Kent Jones, The Conversation The effects of the Trump administration's 2025 tariffs are still being passed on to consumers, while new levies will add to the overall tariff rate.