Sy Sez wrote:
A more concise, and less bloated evaluation would be toward, what products prices haven't increased.
“Haven’t increased” isn’t really the ideal metric at this point, as the full effect of tariffs has not yet arrived. Or immediately example is that it is only in the last couple of weeks that camera companies announced their tariff-induced increases in list prices (in the range of roughly 10% overall), and those don’t go into effect until August.
These things are tricky. For example, the expectation of those increases (which many already assumed were coming) has likely accelerated purchases of camera equipment recently, amplifying the magnitude of the likely decrease in sales starting in August when the prices rise.
When people have X available to spend and the costs of items on which they would spend increases by some percentage, there will be fewer sales. That’s unavoidable.
From the land of unintended secondary consequences… in states with sale tax (that’s almost everywhere) the decline in sales functionally shifts taxes from states (their local sales taxes) to the federal government (via the import tax). Decreased sales with no increase in _their_ profits impacts the companies that sell camera equipment, the wholesalers who import it, the companies who ship it, and more.
the one-dimensional notions of how “the economy works” are stunning…
Jul 30, 2025 at 01:12 PM
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