Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to Price Anything

Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by jennyholzer on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:34PM (#45078960)

i don't see any indication that either republicans or democrats intend to reindustrialize america

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by bediger4000 on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:48PM (#45079035)

Agreed. This is hermeneutics for Trump's self enriching or just plain dumb actions.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by estearum on Saturday August 30, 2025 @10:32PM (#45079832)

Here's private construction of manufacturing facilities in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRMFGCON

Biden was inaugurated in January 2021 and Trump won the election in November 2024.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by jibal on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:59AM (#45080501)

Biden's major bills were very much indications of that ... even more so for the version before Manchin took a hatchet to it.

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Re:Six Months into Tariffs, Businesses Have No Idea How to P... by pydry on Sunday August 31, 2025 @06:04AM (#45081960)

There is evidence they are trying it just isnt particularly effective.

Part of the problem is that it runs up against the corporate lobbies who would rather take a higher short term profit margin, let American industry hollow out and buy gold + a luxury bunker in New Zealand to prep for the worst case scenario.

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