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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by nosianu on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:08AM (#46680555)
What does elasticity matter if you no longer make a profit?

Isn't the only thing that could matter - apart from strategic considerations of financing a loss for a time - if the margins are big enough? Who wants to pay for people to take their products below the full cost of making them, apart from some investor-financed hype startups?

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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by senorrib on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:33AM (#46680925)
1) You’re assuming there’s no profit to be made 2) Profit is implicitly embedded in the elasticity curve
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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by nosianu on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:22AM (#46689247)
1) No, please learn to read and to comprehend.

I wrote

> Isn't the only thing that could matter ... if the margins are big enough

2) No, the standard price elasticity of demand curve does not directly include profits. It primarily models the relationship between price and quantity demanded.

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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by nasmorn on Monday January 19, 2026 @11:34AM (#46680951)
This is what the supply curve describes. For each individual producer there is a hard cutoff but in aggregate these are a curve
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Re:Kiel Institute Analysis: US Americans pay 96% of tariff b... by nosianu on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:23AM (#46689255)
No, the standard price elasticity of demand curve does not directly include profits. It primarily models the relationship between price and quantity demanded.

Supply curve??? The OP wrote "This is confirming demand is more inelastic"

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