Mitchell Hartman
speaker
1,202 appearances
42 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6d ago
Mitchell Hartman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're going to charge the battery when prices are low, and they're going to sell that power when prices are high.
One, we're seeing a loss in negotiating power across the board.
Like wage growth has been declining for both groups.
I think it feels worse because right now the people who are switching jobs are disproportionately people who would not like to be.
Even though the administration's biggest bucket of import taxes has been thrown out, Michael Strain at the American Enterprise Institute says, There are other laws under which President Trump has tariffs.
And Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
And, says Robert McClelland at the Urban Brookings Tax Policy Center, There are still a number of active investigations on aircraft, industry machinery, medical equipment, wind turbines, and drones.
Which could lead to additional tariffs.
which reduced the average effective tariff rate on foreign imports from around 16% before the Supreme Court's decision down to 9%.
But according to the Yale Budget Lab, President Trump's new Section 122 tariffs ratchet that back up, at least for the next 150 days, to 13.7%.
I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.
Curbing inflation doesn't make things cheaper, but a few things are cheaper.
Inflation is moderating.
Last week we saw the consumer price index going up 2.4% in a year versus 2.7% as calculated a month earlier.
So prices are still going up and we often figure nothing ever actually goes down in price.
An exception is gasoline, down 7.5% in a year.
Not by a lot.
Twenty cents a gallon on average, but enough to buy yourself a king-sized bag of peanut M&Ms on a typical fill-up.
Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman has more.
I saw one calculation that televisions are 99.4 percent lower in 2026 compared to the inflation adjusted price in 1950.
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