The Tarifflation Narrative Was Destroyed by a San Francisco Fed Paper
For as long as anyone can remember, economists and journalists have issued a consistent warning about tariffs : they will push prices up. It’s been the cornerstone of the case against President Donald Trump’s trade policy. Raise tariffs, and consumers will pay more at the checkout counter. It’s simple economics, they tell us.
A new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests the economic establishment got this one backwards.
Economists Régis Barnichon and Aayush Singh examined major tariff changes across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France over…
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