Treasury Secretary says the American dream is not about 'access to cheap goods'

What is it? The joy of hard labor?

Translation: These tariffs are going to absolutely stink. Of course they are.

Yay....? Inflation is still inflation.<p>&gt;Economists and market participants worry that the Trump tariffs will raise prices and slow growth. However, White House officials point out that tariffs did little to stoke inflation during Trump’s first term<p>Because first term he threw out some token tariffs and then said something about it not being easy and he did nothing after that. This is different.

A single Orange coming in from Mexico isn&#x27;t the $1 we pay at the store (forgive me, I&#x27;m in CA). Most of the price is the markup generated within the country by greed and the fact that the food distribution network over the past 20 years was allowed to be gobbled up by just a few companies that have, clearly, decided to illegally set up price fixing agreements (through intermediaries) (think real page for produce).