Public sentiment towards Trump's tariff policies is largely negative, with a significant focus on how these measures threaten the Indian economy. Commenters express frustration over perceived economic bullying by the US and highlight the need for India to prioritize its own economic interests, diversify trade partnerships, and seek self-reliance. While there is a strong sense of national pride and resilience, concerns remain about the potential harm to consumer prices and long-term bilateral relations.

Indian Government

Donald Trump

American Consumers

we won't know until people get fired for saying it is ... oh wait ...

Present_Membership24

Prices are rising but I guess we haven't truly felt the effects of Trumps tariffs yet.  The BBB that congress passed doesn't go into effect till after 2026 midterm but I guess rural hospitals plan their budget 1 to 2 years before so we will feel the effect of rural hospital closures in the next year or 2, for the cutting of funds to FEMA and national weather service we will feel that if destructive weather hits, for cutting USDA people may start getting sick from the food they buy so keep an eye on recalls and food born illnesses in your area, for the tampering with redistricting the maps we will find out come midterm once we all vote. Best of luck and take care.

a_little_hazel_nuts

Yes, it's started and continues to increase.  On the 29th of August and slightly after we will see even a larger effect which will likely lead to the loss of many small businesses. 

 We already see it in the ppi, cpi, unemployment, inflation, bond yields, manufacturing and retail sectors are already reporting significant impacts.

  https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-august-1-2025?hl=en-US


A recent survey done by the Dallas Fed shows 70% of manufacturing feels it and 60% of the retail 

https://www.dallasfed.org/research/surveys/tbos/2025/2508q?hl=en-US#:~:text=Of%20those%20surveyed%2C%2048%20percent,(percent)

We should start seeing more slowing through h2

 The tariffs already implemented will have a more broad effect by November and probably into next year.  This doesn't include the semiconductor tariffs as they haven't hit yet.  The echoing effects still haven't hit entirely which is going to cause more issues. 

Due to energy policy you will likely see your utility bills going up, and it's not out of the question that we could see it end up being higher than mortgage per year 

I expect 4%-6% inflation by beginning of next year and would be pleasantly surprised if it's not in that range

If he keeps firing people from the fed and ends up cutting rates early we will likely see bond yields jump causing debt to cost more as well as up to 8% to 10% inflation.  Cutting rates too early historically shows an increase in inflation and bond yields

Wages will likely stagnant through this being business is already squeezed by tariffs as seen in ppi

$3000 imports on steel just a year ago now is around $35k just to get it off the docks.  Everyone is on thin margins so that's going to be up to the consumer to pay it

rfmh_

No.   We're still living the reality of the democrat trillion dollar blowout spending bills, whose inflation continues to beggar us.

UnfairAd7220

We feel the effect of obama, first Trump term and Biden and it started way before that.

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I don’t think that a successor would instantly remove them but I think what would actually happen is that a future President would negotiate free trade agreement country by country. The reason they will do that, is not because of reciprocal tariffs but because it's only a matter of time until countries start to heavily put taxes on US services. These will be the main factor a future President will try to get removed.

Facktat

Governments don’t buy stuff, people and businesses do. If Americans stop buying international goods because of cost, tariff tax revenue drops. Tariffs will dampen demand, and the US market will no longer be attractive. It’s a downward spiral that will be unstoppable in a few years.

JCPLee

A future president will have to actually get Congress to remove the tariff powers from the president and limit them to 90 days for actual emergencies. I get the idea that in some circumstances there needs to be swift immediate action on trade. But any tariffs imposed as an emergency approach should have a firm expiration date like 90 days. The idea that the president can just set tariffs on their whim is insane.

det8924

Any president that doesn’t immediately remove them is dumb. 

This has caused a global slowdown and will eventually lead to one hell of a recession/depression. 

Dudes about to learn the lesson of EVERY president that has tried doing blanket tariffs. A crippling depression

xViscount

It took years of complex negotiations to rid the world of tariffs in the 80s and mere weeks for one moron to take a wrecking ball to world trade.

feuwbar

I suppose we look at the example of President Biden, who retained some of Trump’s first term tariffs, but unwound other ones.

Should be noted that President Biden went in further on anti-China tariffs than Trump term 1 with the *targetted* EV tariffs, but simultaneously relieved steel tariffs on the EU. 

What this says to me is that tariffs are likely to stick around as a policy tool, though hopefully future administrations will understand the economic impacts of using them better than this current administration.

Young_Lochinvar

No, trump's tariffs won't survive next year's Congressional elections.  A new congress will move quickly to restore sanity to the economic chaos that now comes from the White House.  2/3rds of US voters are fed up with this on again, off again of announcing tariffs, postponing them and then cancelling them altogether.  Donald trump is a bully-in-chief, trying to run the US government the way he has bankrupted 4 casinos.

icnoevil

Trump’s tariffs are slowing economic growth, raising prices, undermining American manufacturing, marginalizing the US geopolitically, and attracting widespread public opposition.

But the article makes a stark prediction: That despite all the above, future US governments may want to keep them, and such policies may become the new normal for America and global trade. The reason is: **Tariffs are, by definition, taxes on imported goods, and these increased taxes are set to become a big, easy revenue source for the US government.**

- This year, the federal government collected more than $152 billion from tariffs(taxes by another name). And this revenue is projected to be $2.2 trillion over the coming decade. **After his “Big Beautiful Bill” giving Americans the largest tax cut in recent history, Trump has now imposed the largest *tax hike* in recent history, and he has accomplished this without a Congressional vote.** In fact, most people aren't even calling them taxes!

- If the Supreme Court ultimately allows these tariffs(which it will, because over half of its nominees are loyal to Trump), **tariffs will become an easy way for all future governments to impose tax rises, because they don’t need a Congressional vote, and they also don’t carry the usual stigma associated with taxes**(in fact they can be projected as a win for America since they’re “targeting” foreign goods). 

- It will be difficult for any future White House administration to overcome the temptation to take this route to easy money, particularly considering the projected impact of Trump’s income tax cuts and growing spending on Medicare and Social Security. It’s an economically unsound policy, but even if it eventually becomes unpopular among voters, it’ll still be difficult to dislodge.

- The root cause behind this is a fundamental tension at the heart of American fiscal policy: The US government’s need for revenue is rising, while Congress’s appetite for taxation is declining. And although this is largely the product of poorly costed tax cuts by Republican Presidents, Democrat Presidents have also declined to raise them back. **As a result of all this, federal spending as a percentage of the economy has risen sharply since 2000, while tax revenues have fallen.**

- As things stand, the fiscal deficit will grow to unsustainable levels in the coming decades, particularly after 2035 when Social Security’s trust fund will be exhausted. Beyond the Republicans’ goals, future Democrats will also have to look for ways to fund an increase in social spending, while special interest groups representing American industries that compete with imports will lobby to keep the tariffs in place. So Trump’s tariffs on every other country in the world may simply be reduced to a smaller baseline, not cancelled entirely. 

- *But* in a best case scenario, Trump’s tariffs could become so unpopular by 2028 that the next Democratic presidential nominee can confidently run on a promise to remove them, and in that case they would end with his presidency. Still, the odds of them surviving as a policy are much higher than they should be.

1-randomonium

The tarrifs will stop real fast if the economy sours in any meaningful way. The path to electoral landslide is so easy for democrats if the economy sours and they can campaign on, “on day 1 we can instantly make everything in your life cheaper, by removing these tariff taxes on everything you buy.” -  people love the government handing them money, and there’s no easier political play than that strategy for 2026.

TunaHuntingLion

Even if a successor ended all the tariffs companies would keep the price the same. It's a reset to a new price. My best example is chicken wing prices during the pandemic. They were expensive. Prices drop and chicken wings are still hyper expensive at restaurants.

iamhefty

A presidential candidate can say "I'm going to lower the cost of living overnight! I'm going to slash prices on food, cars, clothing, you name it.by getting rid of these ridiculous Trump tariffs! You're going to have more money in your pocket, businesses are going to see the cost of importing goods and resources drop dramatically so they can offer cheaper goods to the American people!! Life is going to become more affordable for the average American person and I won't have to raise taxes ONE CENT!"

The crowd fucking roars and lines up to vote.

Keeping these tariffs (at least at their current rates) would be the biggest political blunder in history.

salmonguelph

Trumps foolish tariffs have changed trading to favor China and the rest of the world.  We are no longer a stable trading partner.  Since agreement can change on the whims of a 2 year old mentality, we no longer can be trusted.  The rest of the world will just start buying goods and from stable trading partners.  This will slowly kill American business which will not be able to compete with China and other nations, other nations cost donot go up.  They still have the resource to build the product and cheaper labor.  The only place the price goes up is to the American consumer.  Even products that are American made will rise in price, because American business is not going to sell at a lower price than the market will bear.

Lott4984

Isn't it possible that if the democrats win a large enough majority in the house that they can just stop Trump from unilaterally imposing tariffs? 

The power to enact tariffs is congressional, not executive as far as I understand it. The only reason this shit is even happening is because republicans in congress are allowing it.

Basic_Butterscotch

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lol, Biden increased Trump’s tariffs on China and kept most of his policies in place despite Trump undoing what Obama/Biden did. Whoever if ever there’s another President it will be status quo. These idiots think the US is the only economy worth a damn but as you can see all this mafia shakedown behavior is backfiring. India is laughing at those tariffs. China is rolling on the floor right now. Ok sure we have a big military(dwindling)and the dollar is still the reserve currency for now but you can’t go to war against the entire world either unless you want to destroy it all because you couldn’t see the forest for the trees?

HiramAbiff2020

Nay, the system can’t go this way any long. Income taxes need to be fairly distributed. Spending taxes (Sales tax, vat, tarrifs etc) will lead to crave the society even more, and will ultimately lead to the Guillotine returning en-voge

Fun_Performer_5170

The underlying idea's right - it's hard for the federal government to give up a source of revenue - but misses the degree to which the tariffs are regressive. 

There comes a point in any economy where crushing the poor and middle class to give a few more perks to the rich becomes unsustainable.

AdHopeful3801

Here is why they wont, competitive advantage. For all the failures of global trade and there's a multitude what you can not deny is the wealth creation via competitive advantages. Consequently most of trumps tariffs will be removed.

More likely what you'll see is an environment where US households save more relative to what they spend. This will drive higher investment into the US and by US households. And ultimately help get to a more balanced economy.

haveilostmymindor

 Because our government is in desperate need of funds.  Bad news is our deficit has never been larger, so even with tariff tax revenue, they can't stop spending even more

grasshopper239

If those tariffs come off does anyone seriously think the greedy oligarchs are going to suddenly drop prices?  No. They’ll just suck in more wealth through increased profits.

Bceverly

The article is fundamentally correct.  The US is teetering on a debt crisis.  We need the revenue and we don't have the stomach to raise income taxes on the majority of the population.  As a result, taxing the consumption of foreign made goods and services is basically all we have to raise a massive amount of money.  

Maybe you can push through a wealth tax or increase income tax on the top 1% but that only gets you so far and likely doesn't get you anywhere near the hundreds of billions that tariffs will raise.

IMO, this is going to be permanent.  I wouldn't be surprised if in the next few years other countries follow suit to try to control their debts.

I still can't believe that republicans were the ones to push through the biggest tax increase in history.

fish1900

The way inflation reporting works is on a year on year basis. Give it 12 months and hey presto inflation drops like a stone and he can start saying its not Biden s Economy but it's his

MCDCFC

forget about the successor 2 appeals courts already rejected the tarriffs saying that president doesnt have any control or power to put tariffs according to IEPA, which goes to supreme court and if they reject it and it woudl be back to normal by start of next year

Most-Excitement-1058

It’ll be a tool for whoever to remove so that they can say they’re gonna get the economy jumpstarted or whatever. The way current times feel i could see them saying “we’ve got the US manufacturing so much and the world is going crazy for our good that I’m getting rid of the tariffs so that all these countries that want America can have some” it doesn’t make sense but neither does half of what being said out there.

BeanieBopTop

The more interesting thing is how some areas submitted. The EU in particular - Ursula handed over billions of Euros to Trump. The biggest heist in history. Why does an European work for the USA? Just as Trump acts as agent Krasnov for Putin, we have Ursula as US trojan horse here.

shevy-java

Whoever wins the Democratic nominee for 2028 will obviously be running on removing tariffs. I’d venture to be whoever comes out on top on the GOP ticket will do so by distancing himself from Trump and therefore will also be running on removing them.

chi_guy8

Why wouldn't the administration lower tariffs next year so that they take effect with enough time for prices to go down before midterms?  He'll look like a hero to dipshits that don't know any better b/c stuff is suddenly cheaper under his regime.

Dapper-Jellyfish7663

Several comments proposed that the successors to this idiotic administration will not remove the tarrifs.  It's possible that we'll elect either a president or a congress that will develop trade practices that are logically derived.  Perhaps someone that understands that tarrifs are another form of tax.  That foreign governments don't .  It's possible that well get to the point where the amount of imports declines so much that the anticipated tarrif revenue dwindles.

Snow_Lepoard

We’ll have to keep them at least until Canada quits exporting so much fentanyl to us. I feel so much safer now, overpaying for everything now.

colcatsup

Bullshit. Tariffs don’t work in this new world. Maybe back in the day and even then it’s debatable. Stop trying to even legitimize this idea.

Diligent-Play

It’s like mercantilism back in history. It only works if just one country is doing that shit. However, this will for sure not be the case. Also, keep in mind that players like Europe and China are already restructuring their supply chains. Here in Germany we were super sceptical of China but now ties are getting extremely tight again.

TheCapPike13

Even if the tariffs are removed you really think prices on goods will come down lol, just another way to price gouge Americans and keep the prices high forever.

Glittering_Act_8121

They definitely won't live forever - it'll be war and complete global economic meltdown (pick your order) that'll kill tariffs for another 100 years - if there is anything left to tariff that is...

soupSpoonBend741

This is an incredibly important reminder.


Most of Trump's tariffs haven't been put in place yet. They keep getting postponed, decreased, and or changed to be unrecognizable to what was previously talked about.

ZerexTheCool

[Here](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ROWFDIQ027S) is a graph of foreign direct investment in the US. As you can see it's rather noisy! Most recently FDI fell from the last quarter of 2024 and the first quarter of 2025. We do not have data for the 2nd quarter of 2025 yet, which is when most of the new tariffs came into effect. As Zerex mentions, we should remember that most of the proposed tariffs that Trump presented have not happened.

Has *general* investment risen? [Yes it has](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GPDIC1). However, again we don't have figures for Q2 2025 yet. Even though investment has risen in recent quarters it's not at all clear that Trump's policies have done it since investment is usually rising.

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[https://globalbusiness.org/foreign-direct-investment-in-the-united-states-preliminary-1st-quarter-2025/](https://globalbusiness.org/foreign-direct-investment-in-the-united-states-preliminary-1st-quarter-2025/)

Inward investment is falling. It had fallen from 2023 to 2024 but has fallen again.  
Im in the UK. My financial advisor has brought me an average of 10% return after fees since 2014. Much has been US investments. The investment team is now switching out, dropping US funds from about 75% to under 40% of the investment pot.

Fellowes321

I do not have the entire answer, but I do know that some countries, such as Japan, were already investing in the US. The deal Trump made required a $550 billion investment from Japan, but Japanese firms were already the top investors in the US. They were not planning to stop. That part of the deal was really a wash. Perhaps the “to be directed by Trump” part is what he accomplished so he could route the money in ways he wants. Those details have not been made clear to Americans (or have not been finalized that I am aware of.)

Per the article below “*Japanese companies have invested around 800 billion dollars, creating almost one million American jobs. These are good jobs with half a million jobs in the manufacturing sector alone.”*   That was a comment in front of Congress in April 2024. 

[https://www.progressivepolicy.org/trade-fact-of-the-week-japanese-firms-are-the-top-international-investors-in-the-united-states/](https://www.progressivepolicy.org/trade-fact-of-the-week-japanese-firms-are-the-top-international-investors-in-the-united-states/)

DeviDarling

The bottom line is that these policies aren’t solving America’s economic problems. They’re exacerbating them. Tariffs inflate prices, immigration restrictions shrink the labor force and the illusion of prosperity rests on shaky foundations. The long-term result won’t be a revitalized economy but a more fragile and unequal one, where corporations and the wealthy benefit while ordinary Americans pay the price.  

The question isn’t whether this approach will fail but how badly.

Firm_Term_4201

A chaotic rollout of tariffs is starting to filter through to price tags on store shelves. An immigration crackdown is beginning to weigh on jobs growth, measured by federal surveys. Taken together, the impact of President Trump’s whirlwind six months back in office is showing up in the economy.

Happy_Weed

I imagine the BBB will also start to have some major economic impacts over the mid and long-term. 

A rural hospital close to where I live has already had to scale back significantly, a trend that is likely to continue. With some states slated to potentially lose some 60% of their rural healthcare systems. 

Many rural hospitals are economic anchor points in rural communities, having the higher paying, more "professional" jobs. Scale downs will cost jobs, and of course impact the wellbeing of the residents of said rural areas. Deterioration in health outcomes will push more people out of the workforce, creating even further erosion. 

The current administration is putting the US economy in a death spiral.

Zenceyn

Nope, sorry - didn't you get the latest memo? These are all \*Biden\* effects. Trump tariffs are like the Schrodinger's Cat of economics - they don't exist, but if they did, they'd only boost the economy, so if the economy is going down, it must not be from the tariffs...

ActualSpiders

I may be a stupid layman who has no business talking about this. However since this is Reddit imma do it

Makes sense the economy is sloooowww iirc a bunch of companies basically stock piled goods for the tariff tantrum and now they're running out. I feel like unless something changed the holidays are gonna be weird and expensive

Pockydo

Thanks WSJ for cheering Trump on knowing exactly what his policies would do to the average American. The WSJ editorial board are all fucking traitors who have been frothing at the mouth at their excitement for ushering in corporate feudalism and oligarchy.

Randy_Watson

They warned us it would start to show up around the Summer time. I can’t tell you how many absolute dumbasses started pre-emptively taunting everyone June 15 with the whole *”WhAt HaPpEnEd To ThE sUmMeR sQuEeZe?!?”*

Summer didn’t end on June 15. And as everyone (should) know, these tariffs will have a laggard effect. We probably won’t feel the full effects until October-November to be honest. But we will start seeing the price tag differences in August-Sept

CyberSmith31337

6 months in, policies take some time for effect, we are cooked by Q1 2026 unless he kicks the bucket alongside Vance and someone of moral uprightness and levelheaded takes over.  Sadly the damage is already done

2broke2smoke1

In my county (Lebanon), Weaber cut 146 positions at a distribution site. They already closed another facility in Crawford County (46 lost). 
They deal in lumber and deal with Home Depot. 
Their official line is inflation, a soft housing market and high mortgage rates are the reason. 
No way in hell will they blame 🍊 🐔

ridingpiggyback

Do you think Americans will know what the reason is for higher prices ? We aren't talking about the brightest lights here.  Trump will spin some bullshit that the Maga morons will latch onto.

Think-Comparison6069

He wanted the Gestapo in place and the military and court takeover complete by now. Thanks to resistance, we're not there .. yet, and hopefully never.

Stay Strong.

QualityPitchforks

No kidding!! Set 100% tariffs, say you are going to implement them tomorrow. Stock market plummets. Next day HAHA only kidding. Slash government workforce with an axe, uh oh we need to hire those people back. Trump wants all of us and the world to have no confidence in our government

sbhurray

The impact of his strategy was always going to be a simmer but with the uncertainty about what the policy actually is and when it kicks in has made it even slower.  Shipping rates still point to large impending disruptions.  April will look tame if he doesn't chicken out again on 8/1 and countries retaliate (as they likely will).

yrotsihfoedisgnorw

I think it’s partially Trump and partially billionaires using this as an opportunity to price gouge. Remember folks, they take advantage of downturns to line their pockets.

Equivalent_Air8717

The SP500 at a new all time high? Pretty amazing 6 months for President Trump. The rate of inflation is down.  Employment is strong. Our budget ran a surplus. Let’s hope he continues to string along the successes! One of the best six months any president has ever had.

kennykerberos

The stock market is in a huge bubble, with the P/E of the S&amp;P at a 200 plus year high, while it ignores the inevitable coming crash.

By Christmas or early 2026:

Inflation will be  high and continue to climb from trade wars, tariffs, and the falling USD.  Trump is firing those that accurately report the financial #s. 

Unemployment will be high and continuing to rise due to  government layoffs, cancelations of government contracts and awards, and the reduced bilateral trade  from tariffs. It is already moving up. The only thing keeping the unemployment rate down is a dwindling labor force, which is bad for an economy

AI is currently fueling an investment in infrastructure boom with investments in everything else in steep decline. Eventually that will slow as it gets built out. Companies may see profits increase as AI allows them to lat off workers, but those layoffs reduce the total workforce and impoverish those losing their jobs. 

The USD, already down 10 % will continue its decline as the free world turns against the US and its currency.

Foreclosures, car  repos and business failures are rising and will  continue to rise due to inflation, trade wars, attacks on labor unions,  and job losses.

25 % of buy now pay later purchases are currently for groceries and will rise as households are further strained. Using credit for essentials is a sign of strains on households. 

The share of households becoming seriously delinquent on their auto loans and credit cards has already hit 14 yr highs. This will worsen. 

Credit card balances topped $1.2 trillion, rising 7.3% from the fourth quarter of last year. That is almost $4000 per person of any age. It will continue to climb. 

With the pause on student loan repayments ended, many are in dire straights. “The money that has to go to student loan payments now is money that can’t go to paying off credit card debt or building an emergency fund or working toward other financial goals that build a stable foundation,” according to Matt Schulz, chief credit analyst at LendingTree

Student loan delinquencies jumped to 7.74% from 1% following the ending of a pandemic-era pause of reporting past-due loans on credit reports, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s first-quarter Household Debt and Credit Report. This will continue to worsen. 

Companies will fail and those surviving will see profits decline or turn  into losses as they try  to absorb some of the cost of tariffs while passing some of the costs to consumers raises prices reducing sales. 

Tourists to and within US, previously a big contributor to GDP,  will be way down, due to anger at and fear of the US coupled with  people  not having discretionary income to vacation. Airlines are continuing to cancel fights and entire routes to and from the US. Charging some visitors 15 k deposits to enter the US will drive it down more, as will listing many countries as not eligible to visit the US

Our ( former???) NATO allies are starting to cancel huge defense contracts with US firms and instead buy elsewhere. These are contracts in the  10s and 100s of billions each. 

Scientific research will grind to a near halt, preventing future innovation in health care and all other industries due to cancellation of research grants, preventing innovation over the next 10 to 20 years. This damage will play out in the more distant future, because the road from research to developing new technologies to making them profitable is very long.  

Higher education is now or  will be in dire financial straits, with some colleges and universities going  belly up as foreign students flee or are kicked out and research grants disappear. Foreign students pay higher tuition that the Universities need, and spend foreign  money in the US. They are not “ taking spots” from our kids, they are creating spots that keep our economy afloat. The cost of an education in the US, already unaffordable to many, will become unaffordable to even more families. 

While unemployment will be high, those put of work will not take the low wage openings of the recently deported since they cannot survive on minimum wage and that work is dangerous and exhausting

Deporting handymen, day laborers, restaurant workers, slaughterhouse workers, nursing home workers, childcare workers, and farm laborers will all fuel inflation and drive down rents ( especially at the low end)  and real estate valuations. 

This year’s college grads are  not able to find work especially in the previously booming programing field and in all the defunded areas of STEM.   Our young best and brightest, now saddled with student loans, are joining the ranks of the unemployed.

Because of the attacks on research funding and higher education, we are now experiencing the largest brain drain that the country has ever experienced. 

Homelessness, property crime and food insecurity will continue to rise, because basic essentials will have become too expensive and job losses will take their toll. 

These issues will cause interest rates to rise, and total employment to fall, further exacerbating all of the above problems. Stagflation will prevent the  Fed from intervening to save the economy. 

The US will get closer to defaulting on debt with foreigners selling off US debt which will cause the AA rating to decline to A or worse.( Defaulting on debt is Trump’s go to move) The will sell off our debt both in retaliation for tariffs and because with inflation heading towards hyperinflation, our treasuries become a bad investment. 

Home  prices will fall but high rates will depress sales as more property comes onto the market. Rents will fall as valuations fall. ( compounded by above mentioned deportation of migrants who filled low end properties) de Recent buyers will be upside down. New construction is down. Tariffs raised construction costs as did deporting migrant workers.  Average time on the market is now 9 months and rising. The sellers market has ended. If MTG s bill to waive capital gains taxes, it might help stabilize the high end of the market, but the bottom to middle will still collapse. 

Homeowners insurance will continue to rise due to climate change worsened “ natural” disasters. More and more people will not even be able  to get insurance. This will continue to drive up condo HOAs. Policies to deny climate change and accelerate it instead of slow it will be harmful in the distant future but not the near term. 

Oil prices may  rise due to attacks on Iran, their eventual retaliation, attacks on and boycotts of  Russian oil, and Houthi attacks on Gulf shipping. It would  further  fuel inflation, but reduced world demand due to worldwide shrinking GDP s, and new renewables coming on line,might move oil
prices down.



And if Americans rise  up to resist fascist authoritarianism, the civil unrest and work stoppages might occur  and further damage the economy.  

The headwinds to the economy are building into a grade 4 hurricane and no one currently seems to care.

HawaiiStockguy

After the article on WSJ they have a "What to read next". The next article they recommend is titled: [**Economists See Lower Recession Risk and Stronger Job Growth:**](https://www.wsj.com/economy/economists-see-lower-recession-risk-and-stronger-job-growth-wsj-survey-10d6e476?mod=WTRN_pos1)

The article is behind a paywall, but my experience so far is that the Trump effect is Over 5% returns YTD on investments and a whopping 2.7% inflation, which is lower than it was pretty much all of the prior 4 years.

PartyOfFore

Worse than permanently damaging the partnerships and alliances that took over a hundred years to forge, and made America the biggest superpower in the world? Worse than completely altering the US economy and life harder for all Americans except the billionaires? Damn. 

BannedByRWNJs

This is just stupid, Trump wants high tariffs and he needs the trade partners and USA consumers to be content with it. He is hoping tariffs will bring in enough money to line his/billionaires pockets. Then also cutting 1 Trillion from SNAP/Medicaid/Medicare and giving a 4.5 trillion in tax breaks. So they need 3.5 trillion and they are not getting that with tariffs.

Tried to order some equipment off of gornation.com today and the duties were nearly the price of the equipment, decided I didn’t need it that bad

Winthefuturenow

"Trump's EPA to repeal finding that climate pollution endangers human health"

This just reported here in Australia. A long time friend, Allie and with a long time Free Trade policy. Not that that seems to mean anything now.

And now repealing evidence based science. .,...... Yeah Trust is gone.

Xevram

People still seem to think that Trump is doing this because he thinks he’s helping us but is wrong.  That is not the case.  Trump knows that he is harming our economy and that it’s going to cause pain and chaos.  That’s the actual goal.  He is getting his revenge against America; is helping his Russian buddy; and is creating an environment to justify his plans for emergency powers.

Thisam

Until these predictions of economic collapse comes true nothing is going to convince blue collar people who work for a living that tariffs are bad.

Like i've been told all year that by now we would be in economic collapse, and we had stock market issues at the beginning of the year and even that is gone now. 

So i'm wondering at this point even myself if this is just laisse faire capitalist whining.

WizardlyLizardy

Wow thats crazy all the maga hogs on twitter are saying its going great and we're the envy of the world and everyone else is paying these tariffs but also US corporations

kingofshitmntt

ya they did. Some of them are racist tools also. But mainly they don’t want to pay any taxes. So when you all loose your hospitals, it is so billionaires can buy more yachts and private jets. California and The Blue states in the north east fund all your red state welfare. Your welcome….

Elegant_Section8225

 of the voters who voted more voted against him than voted for him. He received less than 50% of the popular vote. so all this bs about a mandate is only for the idiots who voted for this treasonous criminal after he showed us all who he is in the 2016-2020 admin. 

If you still think your trump vote wasn’t a big mistake at this time, you’re beyond redemption. 

It is written! 

You can’t fix STUPID!

Those minorities who vote republican just don’t understand that they are only wanted for their votes. Republicans don’t give a fuck about minorities. I’m Mexican-American born and raised in California.

TopicNo7277

there’s all kinds of blame to go around. No ‘one’ idiot could’ve screwed us up this bad. It took a community of STUPID to get here. We all need to take responsibility for this shit show! 

At the very best our future is now looking bad. And it could very likely be much worse. 

break out an old history book if you want a clue….By old I mean one that wasn’t printed in Texas in the last 20 years or so.

Im sorry…. NOT! 

I am so done with stupid! 
You think stupid is a ‘different’ view? A view that should be respected? 
That is what is wrong with ‘merica now. Idiots think they have a legitimate point of view. If you thought voting for trump was anything less than treason then you are a fool. 

if there is or was ever a conspiracy this is it! Putin couldn’t have planned this. The left side of the IQ bell curve won. America is done.

Ah yes. The US Government and corporations have been in bed together shipping every middle class, manufacturing job overseas for the last 30 years to increase corporate profits while every other nation taxes the hell out of everything made in America. But the second someone comes in and tries to undo this, tHe EcOnOmY wIlL cOlLaPsE aNd EvErYoNe WiLl HaTe YoU!

dirtyoldman654

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