{"id":19172,"date":"2025-08-24T15:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19172"},"modified":"2025-08-24T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T15:36:31","slug":"tariffs-begin-taking-a-bite-out-of-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19172","title":{"rendered":"Tariffs Begin Taking a Bite out of the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Even as some Republicans mocked economists for predicting prices would rise as a result of tariffs, there was a whistling-past-the-graveyard quality to the snickering. Yes, tariffs that had been threatened, delayed, and only partially implemented hadn&#8217;t&nbsp;<em>yet<\/em>&nbsp;much increased costs for consumers, but there were clear signs that importers were rushing to beat high customs duties, and that trouble was on the way. Now we&#8217;ve had a weak jobs report and a higher-than-expected producer price index (PPI), and it&#8217;s clear that tariffs perform just as we were warned: They raise prices for domestic businesses and consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/20\/tariffs-begin-taking-a-bite-out-of-the-economy\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/20\/tariffs-begin-taking-a-bite-out-of-the-economy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Even as some Republicans mocked economists for predicting prices would rise as a result of tariffs, there was a whistling-past-the-graveyard quality to the snickering. Yes, tariffs that had been threatened, delayed, and only partially implemented hadn&#8217;t yet much increased costs for consumers, but there were clear signs that importers were rushing to beat high customs duties, and that trouble was on the way. Now we&#8217;ve had a weak jobs report and a higher-than-expected producer price index (PPI), and it&#8217;s clear that tariffs perform just as we were warned: They raise prices for domestic businesses and consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/08\/20\/tariffs-begin-taking-a-bite-out-of-the-economy\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[214,217,165,290,1316,271,1407,208,141],"class_list":["post-19172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-costs","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-imports","tag-inflation","tag-jobs","tag-prices","tag-tariffs","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19173,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19172\/revisions\/19173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}