Paul Sweeney
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Bloomberg Talks · Yale Budget Lab Executive Director Martha Gimbel Talks Tariffs · 2 Apr 2026
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You know, prices, for instance, for durable goods do look like they've been affected.
You've also seen companies trying to hold on, right?
Because there's been so much uncertainty about these tariffs.
And companies don't like raising prices if they don't have to, right?
It makes consumers mad.
And so, you know, they've been trying to hold on, but at some point the economic pressures become too much and then they have to raise prices.
I mean, I think, you know, at the moment we have these kind of temporary tariffs in place while they figure out the new legal authorities they're going to be using.
I think one thing that's really hard is that at this point, I think we have a pretty good sense of what the headline tariff number is going to be, you know, let's call it somewhere between 11 and 15%.
But if you're a business, that actually doesn't help you very much.
You don't need to know what the headline, you know, you and I care.
You need to know what the effective tariff rate is for your industry, for your products.
And there we just know certainty.
We don't know which products are going to be targeted.
I mean, I think you're asking the question that a lot of people are starting to kind of whisper to themselves, right?
It's really, really hard to raise taxes in D.C.
Economists would tell you raise literally any tax except for tariffs, right?
They're really inefficient.
They have really high economic costs.
At the same time, it seems to be the only tax that we're able to raise.
We're not even at the seventh inning stretch.
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