Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

And that is politics.

Biden in Pittsburgh sought to contrast his approach as "strategic and targeted" and has said Trump's broader approach would raise costs for U.S. consumers.

We'll see if it works out that way. But if it's bringing manufacturing back to the U.S., why are you pissed off about it? Isn't that something Trump claimed he wanted, but didn't achieve? Didn't his followers want it as well? Weren't they presumably disappointed when their hero couldn't manage it, and only succeeded in imposing some tariffs?

As for whether that will affect inflation, time will tell. Here's an interesting article from about a year ago. It explains some of the complexities of the tariff question:

Biden kept Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports. This is who pays the price

JUNE 27, 20235:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/27/1184027892/china-tariffs-biden-trump