Civilized said:
Cthepack said:
Hokie I asked early but did not see your response. You said that tariffs would make inflation go up in the 3rd quarter of 2025. Per you, due to inventories companies brought in earlier in the year. Inflation did not go up in the 3rd quarter. Why do you think this is? When will tariffs start to impact inflation?
Is this supposed to be some sort of gotcha question?
Tariffs have already started to impact inflation, it's just uneven because of the Administration's janky and scattershot rollout/pullback/rollout/pullback tariff schizophrenia.
Here's an illustration from that bastion of woke economic data, the nearly-century-old nonpartisan Tax Foundation:

Trump Tariffs Raising Prices for Consumers
So tariffs have already raised some prices, and prices are expected to keep going up.
Here's the fundamental question - when are tariffs and more broadly this Administration's economic policies going to start benefiting Americans, and in what ways?
Are American consumers going to ever see a benefit from tariffs?
So inflation did go up due to tariffs? I thought the report posted said they did not and the markets reacted to it.
It was not a "gotcha" question. Hokie posts the most on here about tariffs and he said inflation will go up in the 3rd quarter and I do not think it did. So I asked why he thought it did not go up.
When do you think the biggest impact will be?
As I shared before I am doing a lot of work with companies that are not raising prices, instead are going after market share. You said I am a small company with a small sample size. My "small" company is doing work in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, UK, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Germany (all since the 2nd quarter of this year), with a common theme of not raising prices.
Again it was not a gotcha question as much as comparing what I am doing with what others "think" will happen.