The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the December price information on Tuesday 1\/13\/26 [DATA HERE<\/a>].\u00a0 Overall, the topline inflation number is moderate at 2.7% much lower than economists projected.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, that\u2019s not the only important element.\u00a0 To get an understanding of the impact from tariffs to imported consumer goods, you can look at TABLE-2 [DATA HERE]<\/a>.\u00a0 As you skim the categories we import the most, electronics, television, sporting goods, apparel, shoes, tools, furniture, etc. what you will note is that the prices are stable with negligible inflation impact noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n What this means is that tariffs are not creating any upward price pressure on the imported good.\u00a0 The December \u201925 imported good prices are stable despite massive tariffs applied in the second and third quarter of 2025.\u00a0 As expected, based on history from 2018\/2019, the exporting nation (and company) are absorbing most of the wholesale price increased due to tariffs.<\/strong><\/p>\n The imported goods are reaching the consumer with no substantively changed price.\u00a0 Some domestically generated goods (food and housing) are still driving the overall inflation number, particularly in the year-over-year calculation, but no substantive price pressure is coming from the import sector.<\/strong><\/p>\n Export dependent nations are squeezing their own productivity, their governments are subsidizing the critical industries, and the tariffs are being absorbed before the products leave the docks.\u00a0 \u00a0This is the USA \u201crust belt\u201d in reverse.\u00a0 The same scenario played out in the USA for decades as domestic manufacturers tried to retain U.S. industry.\u00a0 Now the foreign countries are experiencing their own economic squeeze.<\/strong><\/p>\n This is part of the inflation table:<\/p>\n Having gaslit the American electorate over the issues of Joe Biden\u2019s economic\/energy policy which created record inflation, the same media who ran cover for Joe Biden then switched during the Trump administration to calling the subsequent high costs an \u201caffordability\u201d crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n In essence, Biden\u2019s economic, energy and monetary policies drove 2021\/2022 inflation to record levels, this made all prices rise massively. Those high prices are now the \u201caffordability problem\u201d all U.S. consumers are dealing with.<\/strong><\/p>\n When will we learn not to pay attention to the ‘experts’?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many times do the experts have to be wrong before we ignore them? Remember the predictions that the Trump tariffs would add to inflation? Well, the numbers tell a different story. On Wednesday, The Conservative Treehouse reported: The Bureau … Continue reading ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/InflationTable.jpg\")
<\/a>The article concludes:<\/p>\n