By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.
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Duh
If those poor Americans could think, they would be very upset.
Thank you captain obvious. Why do we have to do studies into things everyone already knows, when Trump doesn’t understand something and spreads bullshit? We know what tariffs are. Looking up the meaning of the word in a thesaurus I wouldn’t call “research”.
Trump to Europe today/yesterday: Let me take Greenland or I’ll tax my own population even harder!! Join my board of “peace” or my citizens are getting a tax increase! That will show you!
… Isn’t that. Like. The point of a tarrif?
What are they trying to distract us from? trump doing the nazis thing? the epstein thing? the invasions of other countries thing?
Maybe trump died and they’re hiding it while they shove the refurbished chucky-cheese animatronic robots up his ass.
What are they trying to distract us from?
Five nights at Donny’s
That . . . is how tarriffs work, yes.
I mean if there is enough room in the profit margin the producer could adjust the price to keep the cost the same.
I can’t imagine why they would given the the way the tariffs are applied though.
But the orange man told me the exporting country would pay!
Was the methodology for the study “Step 1, open eyes. Step 2, look at reality as it exists. Step 3, Document results.”
This is the methodology for most studies. Science is just trying to understand the observable world with measurements.
Of course Americans are paying for the tariffs. There’s the possibility that sellers would eat the costs (by lowering prices proportionately to account for the tariffs), but that only happened 4% of the time.
I’m not especially surprised, but I did think it’d be even closer to 0% than it is.
Like Adam Savage said: The difference between science and screwing around is recording the results.
Fair point. I’m just saying it could be published in Well, Obviously Monthly.
we spent a lot of money to figure out that this water, do be wet
In other news, water is wet.
In other ‘news’, Sun to Rise in East Tomorrow, Pope Professes Catholicism, Bear Relieves Self in Wooded Area…
Film @ 11:00
I can see the Sun. I have no interest in the Pope. But where was that film of the bear having a shit? SHOW ME THE BEAR HAVING A SHIT, NOW!!
Also, did you know if an orange child rapist tries to distract everyone from the decades of child rape he did with his best mate Jeffery Epstein then most of the time it doesn’t work? Isn’t that weird…
Next thing they’ll say Mexico didn’t pay for the wall either.
Maybe even that the economy isn’t actually doing that great and unemployment is increasing.
Or that USA doesn’t really need Greenland for security.
It’s like a smear campaign against Trump, as if he was lying all the time.
This is liberal propaganda, you can clearly tell because they use facts, and everybody know that facts have a strong liberal bias.
A serious reporter should report both sides equally!
/sThats the most pointless study ever.
Confirming what we assume is not useless.
We knew from the beginning that he never knew what a tariff even did. He just assumed in his hollow-out head that it meant he could threaten other countries. Then he went to demonstrate how little of intelligence he actually had and wouldn’t you know, he makes everyone he supposedly “leads” suffer because of it.
Good things money was spent studying… The definition of a tariff.
