Catherine Rampell

But, you know, there's a lot of uncertainty right now.

So there are many different ways to read the data.

Is there inflation uncertainty, Catherine, do you think?

If you look at the surveys of consumers, there definitely is.

There's a lot of uncertainty about inflation and a lot of political polarization even about whether inflation is expected to continue cooling or to go up.

If you ask Republicans, they say that they think there's going to be like no inflation over the next year.

Si el nuevo presidente...

Decide politizar la FED.

Yes.

Unfortunately, I don't think he's going to do a lot of the things that consumers or voters elected him to do.

Whatever levers he has, they don't include lowering the price of eggs and bacon.

So that's not going to happen.

But there's a lot of stuff he could do to mess things up.

I mean, I think in general, when the economy is going well, there's not a ton of tools available to the sitting president to make it go even better.

But there are a lot of

mis pasos que podrían tomar para derrotar las cosas.

Hablamos de tarifas.

Las tarifas serían extremadamente disruptivas para los consumidores, para los negocios, para los exportadores, etc.

Todas las cadenas de suministros podrían ser derrotadas.

Casi todos los cambios en el sistema de inmigración.