Friday, April 4, 2025

Can We Attract New Investments To Build Manufacturing Plants Faster Than Inflation Caused By Trump Tariffs?

 

Trump’s idea of tariffs to encourage companies exporting products to the U.S.
To set up manufacturing here to avoid the Trump tariffs’ financial stress
In the long run will work but in the near term some inflation to cover the tariffs’ added costs
The problem facing Trump is that we are an instant gratification society and our patience for longer term results has been for a long time lost
Sadly for our safety and national security we must induce manufacturers who have the U.S. fled
Due to crippling anti-business regulations, higher wages, higher taxes and the continuing war on fossil fuels
Any CEO who does not answer the siren call of lower costs and less crippling regulation who does not relocate manufacturing is viewed by shareholders driven by quarter to quarter results as a fool
Due to increased tariffs, the stock market has recently taken a steep dive
Fears that most tariff costs will be passed on to consumers to inflation increases revive
Trump’s agenda and Red control of Congress must walk a narrow tightrope
Unless new investments by 2026 from overseas are building new plants to manufacture reducing imports so inflation is on a downward slope
The goal of bringing back manufacturing becomes only a forlorn hope
We will be in lame duck land and the Trump agenda will be at the end of its rope

© 4/4/2025 Michael P. Ridley aka The Alaskanpoet

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