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Showing Original Post only (View all)If we consumers are paying the tariffs, shouldn't inflation be through the roof? [View all]
I mean, I know we are ... there's no mechanism to make Gyna and Canader pay the tariffs, and corporations aren't just going to entirely eat the losses, so ...
Yet, AFAIK, there's been no increase in inflation as a result of the tariffs. What's up with that? Are the government bean-counters fudging the numbers? Secretly applying an 'offset' value, under some sketchy auspices?
Or ... is inflation actually way up, but the media won't report it?
I just don't see how it's possible that inflation has not risen given the tariffs that have been put in place?
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If we consumers are paying the tariffs, shouldn't inflation be through the roof? [View all]
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
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HELL YEAH I have, I grocery shop all the time, and prices are WAY THE HELL UP ...
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#3
Because the inflation numbers are designed in a way to not include the costs that affect most people
Salviati
Jun 2019
#9
I suspect that when they changed the measurements used to measure inflation, they ...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2019
#4
That's my suspicion as well ... somehow the impact of the inflation these tariffs are causing
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#8
Many different indicators out there too...just that someone has got to tie it all together and ...
SWBTATTReg
Jun 2019
#10
The price of everything is rising rapidly. Do you buy food, clothing or gas?
onecaliberal
Jun 2019
#11
No one is actually trying to give us accurate information from this criminal squatter administration
onecaliberal
Jun 2019
#20
Ah, I suppose that 'helps' ... watch, by 2020 the basket will consist of Prison Nutraloaf (nt)
mr_lebowski
Jun 2019
#17
Related...have heard people say on CNBC that trump wants an interest rate drop to
Laura PourMeADrink
Jun 2019
#24