The long and short of it is this because of triffin's dilemma the US imports most of all the goods that it consumes so if we put tariffs On our trading partners abroad they will not eat that price increase they will just increase the price of their goods in order to sell to us therefore driving up the price further.

We don't manufacture much of anything in the United States the only thing we manufacture is paper to print and send to the rest of the world. So as this continues to proliferate through the economy more and more individuals are going to start going and buy more of those goods before the prices increase further therefore pushing up inflation faster

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except it's about leverage. Mexico has already caved. Colombia has caved. Panama is already caving. Others will as well, including Canada. They have more to lose from not trading with the US in the short-term.

also, inflation is not price increases. It's more currency in circulation.

yes of course it is, yes im aware theres only monetary debasement but the overall general pop isnt aware of this phenomena, they lump ALL PRICE INCREASES into this bucket of inflation, thus being ignorant of this they assume ANY increases due to demand , tarrifs, supply shocks etc as inflation itself.

But Jerome Powell said that price increases are caused by us believing in price increases, so really we only have ourselves to blame.