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For investors, the risk now is that the slow drip of news on tariffs leads to complacency about the damage they might cause-the Nasdaq stock index closed a record high yesterday.
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers warned that President Donald Trump’s preference for the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate setting would trigger a surge in expectations for inflation, driving up long-term borrowing costs.
Indonesia also has agreed to purchase billions in U.S. energy, agriculture products and airplanes, Trump said July 15 in a social media post.
A number of factors, including a lack of significant gains in auto prices, are masking the extent of the shift.
US inflation heated back up in June, rising to its highest level in four months, as price increases — including those from tariffs — packed a bigger punch. Consumer prices rose 0.3% last month,
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The hottest question in economics is why the massive price hikes tariffs were supposed to bring still haven’t materialized halfway through 2025.
Inflation in June showed scattered signs of rising costs tied to the Trump tariffs, but Americans simply aren’t paying sharply higher prices because of U.S. trade wars. Here are four things we learned from the latest consumer-price index report.
What do Trump voters think of his tariffs? A new poll finds a “rare” divide in the president’s base. Photo from the White House President Donald Trump’s sweeping overhaul of American trade policy has triggered a unique rift among his supporters,