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The Tariff Inflation Scare Is Dead
Sorry, Tarifflationistas. The Data Just Proved You Wrong
For months, critics of President Trump’s tariff strategy have warned of an inevitable wave of inflation. That wave turned out to be a ripple, and it seems to have already ended.
The logic of the tarifflationistas sounded straightforward. They claim that if you raise tariffs on imported goods, consumers would pay more for everything. But new data from the Harvard Tariff Price Tracker tell a very different story. A year after the tracking began, prices do not show signs of tariff-induced increases. What’s more, the only meaningful price growth lately has come from goods completely untouched by tariffs.
The Harvard Tariff Price Tracker, built from the work of Harvard economists Alberto Cavallo, Gita Gopinath, and Brent Neiman, uses real-time online prices to isolate how tariffs affect different kinds of goods. The index divides products into three groups—imported goods directly affected by tariffs, domestic goods either in tariff-targeted product codes or in categories where imports dominate, and domestic goods in categories mostly unaffected by trade. By comparing how these move, the tracker offers one of the cleanest measures of what tariffs actually do to consumer prices.
The headline finding is straightforward: year-over-year inflation from tariffs is essentially zero. The tracker began in early October of 2024. By October 12, 2025, imported goods in tariffed categories had risen just two percent, almost exactly matching the Federal Reserve’s two percent inflation target. Meanwhile, domestic goods in tariff-affected categories had actually fallen 0.2 percent below their starting point. Domestic goods untouched by tariffs are up 1.4 percent. After a full year of Trump’s tariff regime, price levels across all three categories undermine the tariff-induced inflation narrative. Whatever inflation story tariffs were supposed to unleash never materialized.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Sorry, Tarifflationistas. The Data Just Proved You Wrong
For months, critics of President Trump’s tariff strategy have warned of an inevitable wave of inflation. That wave turned out to be a ripple, and it seems to have already ended.
The logic of the tarifflationistas sounded straightforward. They claim that if you raise tariffs on imported goods, consumers would pay more for everything. But new data from the Harvard Tariff Price Tracker tell a very different story. A year after the tracking began, prices do not show signs of tariff-induced increases. What’s more, the only meaningful price growth lately has come from goods completely untouched by tariffs.
The Harvard Tariff Price Tracker, built from the work of Harvard economists Alberto Cavallo, Gita Gopinath, and Brent Neiman, uses real-time online prices to isolate how tariffs affect different kinds of goods. The index divides products into three groups—imported goods directly affected by tariffs, domestic goods either in tariff-targeted product codes or in categories where imports dominate, and domestic goods in categories mostly unaffected by trade. By comparing how these move, the tracker offers one of the cleanest measures of what tariffs actually do to consumer prices.
The headline finding is straightforward: year-over-year inflation from tariffs is essentially zero. The tracker began in early October of 2024. By October 12, 2025, imported goods in tariffed categories had risen just two percent, almost exactly matching the Federal Reserve’s two percent inflation target. Meanwhile, domestic goods in tariff-affected categories had actually fallen 0.2 percent below their starting point. Domestic goods untouched by tariffs are up 1.4 percent. After a full year of Trump’s tariff regime, price levels across all three categories undermine the tariff-induced inflation narrative. Whatever inflation story tariffs were supposed to unleash never materialized.
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Marlow: Trans Americans Threaten to Leave Country. Trump Voters Say ‘I Voted for This’
On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed an article on transgender people leaving the U.S.
Marlow stated, “I’ve got to tell you, how many of you in the audience are thinking, if transgender Americans are leaving the country, how many of you are thinking, I voted for this? I voted for this. This is exactly what I voted for. … We should let them live in peace, as long as they don’t try to groom us and don’t groom our kids.”
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On Tuesday’s “Alex Marlow Show,” host and Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow discussed an article on transgender people leaving the U.S.
Marlow stated, “I’ve got to tell you, how many of you in the audience are thinking, if transgender Americans are leaving the country, how many of you are thinking, I voted for this? I voted for this. This is exactly what I voted for. … We should let them live in peace, as long as they don’t try to groom us and don’t groom our kids.”
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Trump's National Guard deployments have made a big difference in our cities
Democrats are apoplectic that President Trump has deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, and will soon deploy them in Portland, and likely Chicago, thereafter.
They proclaim that these deployments are unconstitutional, and that the Guard and other military units are constrained by posse comitatus, a law that limits military use for policing activities.
Deploying the National Guard is/was a risky endeavor. To date though, the deployment of military resources (L.A., D.C., Memphis) has been overwhelmingly successful.
The National Guard has significantly reduced crime in our nation’s capital, quelled unrest in Los Angeles without significant blowback, and with the invitation of Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee, has reduced violent crime there to decades lows.
Hard-leftist-run Portland and Chicago have resisted the National Guard deployment in earnest, with both mayors threatening consequences if the president deploys the Guard in their cities.
President Trump has proved -- that is, demonstrated the truth or existence of something by evidence or argument -- that a more robust approach to fighting crime can produce positive results, and make the streets safer for citizens of D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, and anywhere else that a more robust attention to crime is employed, versus the soft-on-crime policies that has been prevalent in these Democrat-run cities for the past decade.
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Democrats are apoplectic that President Trump has deployed National Guard troops in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, and will soon deploy them in Portland, and likely Chicago, thereafter.
They proclaim that these deployments are unconstitutional, and that the Guard and other military units are constrained by posse comitatus, a law that limits military use for policing activities.
Deploying the National Guard is/was a risky endeavor. To date though, the deployment of military resources (L.A., D.C., Memphis) has been overwhelmingly successful.
The National Guard has significantly reduced crime in our nation’s capital, quelled unrest in Los Angeles without significant blowback, and with the invitation of Tennessee’s Republican Gov. Bill Lee, has reduced violent crime there to decades lows.
Hard-leftist-run Portland and Chicago have resisted the National Guard deployment in earnest, with both mayors threatening consequences if the president deploys the Guard in their cities.
President Trump has proved -- that is, demonstrated the truth or existence of something by evidence or argument -- that a more robust approach to fighting crime can produce positive results, and make the streets safer for citizens of D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, and anywhere else that a more robust attention to crime is employed, versus the soft-on-crime policies that has been prevalent in these Democrat-run cities for the past decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...