24 h. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Jobs Are Growing and Powell's Fed Is Unraveling

This week, the government finally revealed the September jobs data, and we learned about the mysterious resignation of yet another Fed official. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Jobs Are Growing and Powell’s Fed Is Unraveling appeared first on Breitbart.

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50 h. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Real Reason Tariffs Lower Inflation

Tariffs paired with immigration policy, capital policy, and monetary policy are tools for breaking a low-wage equilibrium and pushing the economy toward more capital, more productivity, higher real wages, and a cooler price path. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Real Reason Tariffs Lower Inflation appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Tariffs as a Macro Economic Management Tool

The new San Francisco Fed paper on tariffs opens the door for using customs duties in a way that the economics profession has almost never considered: as a macroeconomic policy tool. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Tariffs as a Macro Economic Management Tool appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 d. ago Breibart Business Digest: How the Federal Reserve Got Tariffs Backward

The Federal Reserve spent 2025 worried about the wrong problem, mistakenly holding back on rate cuts out of fear that Trump's tariffs are an inflation threat. The post Breibart Business Digest: How the Federal Reserve Got Tariffs Backward appeared first on Breitbart.

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5 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Tariff Study Just Blew Up the Inflation Story

A new paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests that the economic establishment's narrative that tariffs drive up inflation is wrong. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Tariff Study Just Blew Up the Inflation Story appeared first on Breitbart.

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8 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Week the Fed's Own Research Murdered Its Favorite Tariff Theory

The Federal Reserve released research proving its own rate-holding decision was based on a theoretical mistake. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Week the Fed’s Own Research Murdered Its Favorite Tariff Theory appeared first on Breitbart.

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9 d. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Portable Mortgage Idea Isn't as Crazy as It Sounds

The Trump administration is floating an idea that sounds intuitive to a lot of people: portable mortgages. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Portable Mortgage Idea Isn’t as Crazy as It Sounds appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Brooklyn’s Unaffordable Professional Precincts Are America’s Next Rust Belt

The white collar workers in Brooklyn who elected Zohran Mamdani are experiencing the economic displacement felt by blue collar workers in the Rust Belt three decades ago. They are the natural next chapter of the Make America Great Again coalition. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Brooklyn’s Unaffordable Professional Precincts Are America’s Next Rust Belt appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: What Mamdani’s Victory Reveals About America’s New Class Politics

Zohran Mamdani won big because he tapped into something that cuts across traditional class boundaries: a pervasive sense that the fundamental bargain of American economic life has broken down. The post Breitbart Business Digest: What Mamdani’s Victory Reveals About America’s New Class Politics appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed's Civil War Over Tariffs, Inflation, and Jobs

Yesterday we explored how the battle over rate cuts has scrambled old alliances inside the Federal Reserve. Today we look closer at what’s driving that split and what it means for markets. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Civil War Over Tariffs, Inflation, and Jobs appeared first on Breitbart.

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2 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed's Strange New Battle Lines

Donald Trump gained an unexpected ally Monday in his fight with the Federal Reserve: Governor Lisa Cook, the Fed official he attempted to fire this summer. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Fed’s Strange New Battle Lines appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: Fact Checking Harvard’s Flawed Tariff Study

The recent Harvard Business School study on tariffs is deeply flawed in ways that undermine confidence in its findings. The post Breitbart Business Digest: Fact Checking Harvard’s Flawed Tariff Study appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Wealth of Foreign Nations Depends on America's Endless Budget Deficits

Each year, more of what Americans buy is made abroad, and more of what Americans earn comes from borrowing that replaces the income lost to trade. The system sustains itself not through productivity but through the continual creation of dollar assets. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Wealth of Foreign Nations Depends on America’s Endless Budget Deficits appeared first on Breitbart.

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3 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Hidden Cost of America’s Trade Deficit Is a Permanent Budget Deficit

The U.S. fiscal deficit is the mirror of the trade deficit. Attempts to close one without addressing the other merely shift the imbalance around the balance sheet. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Hidden Cost of America’s Trade Deficit Is a Permanent Budget Deficit appeared first on Breitbart.

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4 w. ago Breitbart Business Digest: The Week Trump Danced Circles Around His Critics, China, and Putin

Tariffs still aren’t raising prices, Putin got sanctioned again, and Democrats are shattered by chandeliers—all that and more in the Friday Breitbart Business Digest weekly wrap. The post Breitbart Business Digest: The Week Trump Danced Circles Around His Critics, China, and Putin appeared first on Breitbart.

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