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2025-07-14 Economy

Trump Tariffs Deliver Surprise Budget Surplus

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Posted by Fred 2025-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [253 views ] Top

#1 Surprise to the stupid people and a vexation to those who predicted disaster knowing that they were lying.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-07-14 07:22|| 2025-07-14 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Fresh Tariff Concerns Over the Weekend

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-14 09:36|| 2025-07-14 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 June also had a jump in corporate tax receipts and a decrease in expected Federal outlays

both of these are very good things

if inflation remains under control a few more months, the cost of borrowing will also go down which would help both the Federal budget but also business and consumers

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-14 10:22|| 2025-07-14 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ And Jerome Powell and Dems will take credit. *spit*

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-14 11:22|| 2025-07-14 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Fed official reveals why America's economy remains 'really healthy' despite holding off on rate cuts

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-14 14:09|| 2025-07-14 14:09|| Front Page Top

#6 From cattle to crude: How Trump's tariffs are rattling the Lone Star State

Posted by Skidmark 2025-07-14 14:11|| 2025-07-14 14:11|| Front Page Top

#7 5^
as has been noted elsewhere (I forgot where), a cut in the Fed rate isn't necessary -- what is needed is a cut in the 3,5 and 10 year Treasury instrument (currently about 3.8%, 4.0% and 4.4%).

These rates have bounced around a bit over the past few months.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-07-14 17:16|| 2025-07-14 17:16|| Front Page Top

#8 No wonder economics is called the "dismal science." Very often, the economists and their predictions are wrong

Posted by JohnQC 2025-07-14 18:38|| 2025-07-14 18:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Predictions are very hard to make, especially about the future

Posted by Frank G 2025-07-14 19:36|| 2025-07-14 19:36|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Frank's endless wisdom, like a fine red wine.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-14 21:21|| 2025-07-14 21:21|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ He is like our very own Wild Irish Rose.

Economics be hard, even without adding economists and their human foibles, prejudices, and politics to the mix. That's why if you laid all the economists in the world end to end, they still would not reach a conclusion.

Posted by SteveS 2025-07-14 22:16|| 2025-07-14 22:16|| Front Page Top

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