Friday at 02:07 AM4 days 2 hours ago, Matt! said:Surprised it wasn't Infantino handing him the trophy
Friday at 02:33 AM4 days 19 minutes ago, Stormbringer said:Surprised it wasn't Infantino handing him the trophyOh, just you wait, the first Board of 'Peace' meeting is next week. I expect nothing less than every single member country handing him some sort of peace prize.
Friday at 02:40 AM4 days Author 1 minute ago, Matt! said:I was just reading that lolEpstein is the godfather of the US elite...
Friday at 12:34 PM4 days Liberty Street EconomicsWho Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street...Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through NoWe now conduct the same analysis for the 2025 tariffs, covering twelve-month changes from January 2024 through November 2025 (the most recent available data). We report the results in the table below. In this analysis, we also allow the pass-through to change for different months in 2025. Our results show that the bulk of the tariff incidence continues to fall on U.S. firms and consumers. These findings are consistent with two other studies that report high pass-through of tariffs to U.S. import prices. We highlight two main results. First, 94 percent of the tariff incidence was borne by the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025. This result means that a 10 percent tariff caused only a 0.6 percentage point decline in foreign export prices. Second, the tariff pass-through into import prices has declined in the latter part of the year. That is, a larger share of the tariff incidence was borne by foreign exporters by the end of the year. In November, a 10 percent tariff was associated with a 1.4 percent decline in foreign export prices, suggesting an 86 percent pass-through to U.S. import prices. Given that the average tariff in December was 13 percent (see the first chart), our results imply that U.S. import prices for goods subject to the average tariff increased by 11 percent (13 times 0.86) more than those for goods not subject to tariffs. These higher import prices caused firms to reorganize supply chains, as suggested by the findings presented in the two charts above. In sum, U.S. firms and consumers continue to bear the bulk of the economic burden of the high tariffs imposed in 2025. @Cult Icon Thoughts?
Friday at 03:28 PM4 days Author 2 hours ago, Matt! said:Liberty Street EconomicsWho Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs? - Liberty Street...Over the course of 2025, the average tariff rate on U.S. imports increased from 2.6 to 13 percent. In this blog post, we ask how much of the tariffs were paid by the U.S., using import data through NoWe now conduct the same analysis for the 2025 tariffs, covering twelve-month changes from January 2024 through November 2025 (the most recent available data). We report the results in the table below. In this analysis, we also allow the pass-through to change for different months in 2025. Our results show that the bulk of the tariff incidence continues to fall on U.S. firms and consumers. These findings are consistent with two other studies that report high pass-through of tariffs to U.S. import prices. We highlight two main results. First, 94 percent of the tariff incidence was borne by the U.S. in the first eight months of 2025. This result means that a 10 percent tariff caused only a 0.6 percentage point decline in foreign export prices. Second, the tariff pass-through into import prices has declined in the latter part of the year. That is, a larger share of the tariff incidence was borne by foreign exporters by the end of the year. In November, a 10 percent tariff was associated with a 1.4 percent decline in foreign export prices, suggesting an 86 percent pass-through to U.S. import prices. Given that the average tariff in December was 13 percent (see the first chart), our results imply that U.S. import prices for goods subject to the average tariff increased by 11 percent (13 times 0.86) more than those for goods not subject to tariffs. These higher import prices caused firms to reorganize supply chains, as suggested by the findings presented in the two charts above. In sum, U.S. firms and consumers continue to bear the bulk of the economic burden of the high tariffs imposed in 2025. @Cult Icon Thoughts?I would say that inflation of goods has been nonstop. Before 2022 it was less noticeable but afterwards it became much more rapid. Trump has made inflation worse, even prices of wholesale goods at Costco have increased more rapidly than usually.But what really kills the standard of living in the US is housing, taxes, healthcare, and education costs- goods is a relatively small component.
Saturday at 03:10 PM3 days 1 minute ago, Cult Icon said:China's richest man, Jack Ma in the Epstein files...
Sunday at 01:21 AM2 days Author On 2/13/2026 at 7:22 PM, Matt! said:uh ohI listened to this talk recently with a researcher/author about how the Military industrial complex works. Really good and gets straight to the point of America's military dysfunction.
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