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Remember the price spikes for appliances after Trump’s tariffs?
Marketwatch ^
| 6/12/2019
| Jeffery Bartash
Posted on 06/12/2019 9:47:55 AM PDT by listenhillary
(Snip) What’s going on? Economists point to a variety of explanations.
The global economy has gotten weaker and the U.S. dollar stronger, making imports cheaper for Americans to buy and lessening the impact of tariffs. The cost of imports excluding foreign oil have fallen almost 1% in the past year.
“We are importing deflation,” asserted chief U.S. economist Chris Low of FTN Financial.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appliances; china; consumers; inflation; interestrates; tariffs; trade
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Interesting. We're not all going to die after all?
To: listenhillary
Smells like......winning.
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:48:32 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: listenhillary
Full title
Remember the price spikes for appliances after Trump’s tariffs? Well, they’re gone now
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:48:45 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(The Trump win was a down court buzzer beating desperation shot that saved America from destruction)
To: listenhillary
We're not all going to die after all?Lots of fat ladies lined up off stage. Besides, nobody gets out alive.
To: listenhillary
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Just $48.00 dollars to 96.00%
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:53:29 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(This space for rent...)
To: listenhillary
Thanks for posting the real headlines.
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:55:10 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Gutless, Stupid Party, GOPe never confronts the compulsive lying Anti America Democrats!)
To: listenhillary
Where are the Free Traitor Smithsonians?
Anyone seen one lately?
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:55:16 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: listenhillary
Either that or Lowes and Best Buy saw an opportunity to hike their prices and blame BAD ORANGE MAN for that.
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:55:27 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:57:00 AM PDT
by
yoe
To: Grampa Dave
I screwed up and meant to put the full title in my first comment. I was thinking it was going to truncate the title and I didn’t know where it would cut off.
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:58:52 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(The Trump win was a down court buzzer beating desperation shot that saved America from destruction)
To: listenhillary
The price escalation results from stainless steel rather than painted steel
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posted on
06/12/2019 9:58:55 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
To: bert
The prices are back to normal.
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:02:47 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(The Trump win was a down court buzzer beating desperation shot that saved America from destruction)
To: listenhillary
In related news, Nevertrumpers still nevertrumping over something else now...
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:18:25 AM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
(Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
To: listenhillary
""We are importing deflation,” asserted chief U.S. economist Chris Low of FTN Financial."
Does this mean we wont see William Devane or Lear Capital commercials anymore?
To: pepsi_junkie
whack-a-mole There’s always something else to hammer when they miss.
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:22:32 AM PDT
by
listenhillary
(The Trump win was a down court buzzer beating desperation shot that saved America from destruction)
To: listenhillary
Trump’s fault! Oh, wait, never mind.
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:27:01 AM PDT
by
bgill
(when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Besides, nobody gets out alive. Well you're a ray of sunshine...
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:30:42 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: listenhillary
Without following it too closely, I seem to recall reading that the Chinese were devaluing their currency in order to get around that.
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:32:54 AM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
To: rjsimmon
You caught me on a good day!
To: listenhillary
The price of manufactured items in America FELL last month, and it was near zero for the entire past year.
AMERICAN CONSUMERS PAID ABSOLUTELY ZERO PERCENT OF THE TARIFFS.
Now, let’s see the Lefties/Chicom sympathizers in the MSM explain why the tariffs are so ruinous.
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posted on
06/12/2019 10:46:03 AM PDT
by
dangus
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