Trump's Tariff Blitz Prompts 'Firefighting' Response from Fed Researchers
U.S. Federal Reserve staffers have scrambled since January to decipher what Trump administration trade policies will mean for the economy, with published tallies of potential income losses, inflation estimates running as much as 2 percentage points higher, and breakdowns showing state-by-state winners and losers.
The research papers and notes, at least a dozen and counting, have taken different approaches to estimate the implications of the still evolving trade war, which has pushed U.S. import taxes to levels not seen in decades and, at times, to their highest since...
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