Americans are going to have a tough timeaffording to buy everything they were able to previously.
With Trump hell bent on bringing back manufacturing through tarrifs, his MAGA movement will disappear under the waves like a vessel full of holes.
Few companies will ever return to US soil no matter how high he raises tarriffs to get consumers to stop buying foreign goods and to try and force the offshore manufacturers out of business to return and produce at home.
They will find other markets to sell to and Americans will suffer high prices and shortages.
Those who do return to US soil will be forced to transact their goods at elevated prices anyway as labour costs aren't cheap.
Tariffs are a recipe for disaster that will push prices of goods ever higher, spurring the government to create yet more inflation.
Spending again what it doesn't have to spend adding to/ballooning the national debt, leaving the Fed with no choice but to monetize ever more new mountains of it.
Likewise putting as it were - inflation in the pipeline that will culminate in consumers purchasing goods at elevated prices using credit to pay in order to keep going.
And the debt cycle only worsens.
Manufacturing costs, rising distributor, food and retail prices being called inflation is a glaring falsehood perpetrated by government/s to put the blame of inflation on somebody elses shoulders but their own. They who in fact - are the sole creators of inflation through government spending.
And with the Fed monetizing the debt (printing) - that in turn works its way into the system down to the consumer forced to use credit to get by - where all that printed and borrowed money is being spent that is not backed by much of any production being the culprit in pushing up costs that subsequently - lead to higher consumer prices. The embodiment of inflation overall.
Soon enough there will be rampant runaway inflation going beyond stagflation and into an inflationary depression quagmire.
But the government lies and its all's well.
Its not.
In real terms, its a weak economy growing weaker.
Gold - not Trump Tariffs, will be the savior with the inflation that is about to bleed non stop into the mainstream.