Economic Armageddon from Trumponomics Bringing Uncertainty, Chaos, Retaliation. - Silicon Curtain

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1. "He effectively implemented tariffs in his first term while driving down the cost of living" - nope

During the first coup regime, the year-over-year numbers (rolling 12 month averages) never went negative, not even once. The rolling 3 months averages were negative (meaning overall prices actually went down) in March-June 2020 during the pandemic's worst economic days (shutdowns and all that), but then back to positive territory (prices rising).

And like I said, even with those negative price-change months, at no time did the year-over-year numbers turn negative.

CPI: https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUSR0000SA0
To see rolling 3 month averages and 12 month averages (graphs and tables):
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3-month percent change
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