Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Nolte: Regime Media Forced to Admit Tariffs ‘Have Little Impact on Prices’
Breitbart ^ | 05/14/2025 | John Nolte

Posted on 05/14/2025 6:42:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The anti-science freak-out predicting President Donald Trump’s tariffs would explode consumer prices has now been debunked as yet another legacy media hoax.

The far-left Politico grudgingly admits: “Trump tariffs have little impact on prices so far, defying grim forecasts,” reads the headline. “Inflation climbed at the slowest pace since early 2021 in April, surprising economists who anticipated tariff-related increases,” reads the sub-headline.

Notice how the propagandists at Politico lay the blame on “economists” for getting this wrong. But when the media cherry-pick the economists and experts to quote, the media are equally guilty. We all know how this game is played.

Here are some previous Politico headlines (I don’t link fake news):

Consumer expectations crater to three-decade low amid Trump tariff chaos Yellen on Trump’s tariffs-taxes idea: It would ‘make life unaffordable’ This Economic Paradox Nearly Took Down Three Presidents. Is Donald Trump Next? ‘How Ugly Is This Going to Be?’ ‘We just haven’t seen anything like this’: Farmers brace for Trump’s trade war ‘There are no guarantees’: Scott Bessent won’t rule out a recession Trump’s second-term honeymoon might be over ‘The opposite of what Americans voted for’: Market turmoil causes Trump backlash Trump’s tariffs come for fast fashion, and the blowback could be fierce. I’m a Conservative Economist. Here Are 6 Reasons Trump’s Plans Won’t Work.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: admit; forced; impact; little; media; prices; regime; tariffs
As this woman at work said to me, You will have to admit you are wrong on Tariffs soon! I am right!! This is bad! Stock market crashing! She even slammed her hand the desk she was so enraged. It was fascinating to watch
1 posted on 05/14/2025 6:42:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

BTTT


2 posted on 05/14/2025 6:46:52 AM PDT by nopardons
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
--- "yet another legacy media hoax"

When one consumes media bias in parallel with one's own bias, reality is sure to be obscured.

And then "happy talk" is defended by angry talk and slamming hands on desks and all.

3 posted on 05/14/2025 6:51:14 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

It was quite refreshing when I told my wife, “That IS the standard Keynesian response regarding tariffs. However that does not match the reality of a capitalist market economy.”

Silence because...well, I was right.


4 posted on 05/14/2025 6:55:13 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration; The acronym defines the science.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
The far-left Politico grudgingly admits: “Trump tariffs have little impact on prices so far, defying grim forecasts,” reads the headline. “Inflation climbed at the slowest pace since early 2021

Politco is wrong because most of their writers can't do math beyond high school Algebra II - they are clueless and arrogant abouy it. Diversify Politico - add people who are capable of understand economic realities.

5 posted on 05/14/2025 6:57:46 AM PDT by GOPJ (Judicial robes aren't invisibility cloaks that allows judges to engage in criminal acts. J Turley)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

6 posted on 05/14/2025 7:28:40 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Politics do not make strange bedfellows, and the enemy of your enemy may still be your enemy.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
Actually, the headline is in part inaccurate, as my brother informed me this morning. The headline should read that prices of products in USA stores have not ballooned. Mail order of Chinese manufactured products have significantly increased, and remain increased.

Now, my grocery bill was not affected at all this week. But, then, I don't buy "made in China".

7 posted on 05/14/2025 7:39:36 AM PDT by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

More:

David Rosenberg, founder and president of Rosenberg Research & Associates, said he was impressed by Trump.

“He has convinced everyone that a 30% tariff rate on China, and a 13% average tariff rate on the world (was 2.5% in 2024), are both normal and manageable,” Rosenberg wrote in a post on X.

“Nothing like a 10-percentage point levy on this $30 trillion beast called Global Trade,” he said. “The Art of the Deal is working brilliantly.”


8 posted on 05/14/2025 7:53:36 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SaxxonWoods

TY for posting


9 posted on 05/14/2025 7:55:25 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

If the facts are not in your favor, bang the table harder.

My TDS friends have become rabid with rage at the lack of problems. They kept predicting disasters and they never happened.


10 posted on 05/14/2025 7:59:00 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: AppyPappy

Its interesting to watch


11 posted on 05/14/2025 8:02:47 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

What the biased prognosticators got wrong is the fact that people just don’t make the purchase of the product if they perceive the price is to high.

Which can cause several macro economic problems...but inflation is not one of them.

And most of the problems it creates are elsewhere, not here.

Food and energy inflation is not on the table to any great extent.


12 posted on 05/14/2025 8:12:58 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27
surprising economists who anticipated [hoped for] tariff-related increases,” reads the sub-headline.

Corrected.

13 posted on 05/14/2025 8:23:00 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ChicagoConservative27

When you’ve been getting raped by other’s tariffs for decades, it’s like a new world when you start fighting back.


14 posted on 05/14/2025 8:59:33 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson