Lawrence Gillum
speaker
370 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2024
last heard 11 Sep
Lawrence Gillum’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm Justin Ho for Marketplace.
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significant imports that are getting more expensive are capital goods.
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Sarah House is senior economist with Wells Fargo.
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She says that's because of higher demand from data center construction.
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In fact, the price of imported computers has risen 17% over the past year.
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Data center construction is also pushing up the price of imported metals, including copper and tin, and driving the price of consumer goods higher, says Menzi Chin, an economics professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
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Higher import prices aren't necessarily gonna have a direct impact on overall inflation.
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Consumers spend a lot more money on services than they do on imported goods.
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But Orrin Kalachkin, an economist at nationwide, says consumers are still gonna feel higher import costs.
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That's because other factors drive up the price of an imported good after it reaches the US, says Diane Swank, chief economist at KPMG.
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In other words, Swonk says the increase in import prices is distinct from other inflationary pressures.
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And that the Federal Reserve will have to deal with when it makes its next decision on interest rates.
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I'm Justin Howe for Marketplace.
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What we normally see when we see these kinds of spikes is the fuel surcharge.
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George says that's affecting the cost of butter, nuts, olives, and flour.
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A trailer truck can hold 26 tons of flour.
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I know that because we buy it by the truckload.
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26 tons, that's a lot of fuel every mile.
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Fuel isn't the only thing that's making transportation more expensive.
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Businesses are still having to pay tariff surcharges.
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