The Fed still believes it can fight every kind of inflation with rate hikes—but tariffs just proved them wrong.
Tariff-driven inflation isn’t about consumers spending too much—it’s about higher production and import costs that rates can’t touch. You can’t make steel, chips, or coffee cheaper by tightening credit.
In this Truthbomb, I break down:
- Why tariff inflation is supply-push, not demand-pull
- How rate hikes fail to lower costs when supply chains drive prices
- The real reason inflation cooled after 2022 (it wasn’t rate magic)
- Why the wealth effect—not monetary policy—still drives spending
Today’s Truthbomb: The Fed’s fighting the wrong battle. Tariffs raise costs—rates just raise risks.
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