Mercy Shown said:

I appreciate your point about context, and I agree that Jesus is absolutely confronting hypocrisy in Matthew 7. But the principle He’s teaching goes even deeper than simply “don’t be a hypocrite.” Jesus is warning us about assuming a posture that belongs only to God—the posture of judge.
In the passage, He emphasizes that when we judge others, we end up being judged by the very same standard we apply.That’s not just about hypocrisy; that’s about the danger of stepping into God’s place and setting ourselves up as the ones who decide whose “speck” counts and how severe it is. When we do that, we inevitably judge people according to ourstandards, not God’s—and Jesus says that doing so invites judgment back on ourselves.

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And yet we can, and must, be able to discern between right and wrong, justice and injustice.
“Stop judging by mere appearances, but instead judge correctly.” John 7:24

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Here are the pictures of the supposed "fishing boats" that were blown up by the US Navy. Note all the bundles of what appears to be either cocaine or fentanyl. Perhaps all the "fishing gear" is underneath it? Now is the part where you dismiss the evidence and continue claiming there is none, even though I cannot provide it to you. Good day. For the record, if I do not reply, it isn't because I cannot provide evidence. It means that evidence is not worth presenting to ideologues who refuse to accept it.

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Why do you lie to me sir?

Servus said:

That's exactly his point. You don't really care where he's is from. You were just trying to gatekeep him out if the discussion.

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Not at all. My comments don’t stop anyone from posting. You’re just coming to his defense because you agree with his rantings. If he wants dismiss people for their biases, I can do that too.

NxNW said:

So far nothing has been found.

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What, the biggest fraud case in US history is nothing. This is really biased.

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Biden's fine.

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Was he fine as president lol. Or are you going to continue the gas lighting.

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Name them, or admit you fabricated that claim.

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Just did.

Heres some more

‘Democrats are going to come to regret this’: After Epstein vote, Trump ready to attack
Trump has already instructed the Department of Justice to investigate links between Epstein and notable Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton, former Harvard President Larry Summers and Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman.

Summers announced Monday that he would step back from public life after emails revealed that the former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and top adviser to President Barack Obama repeatedly sought advice from Epstein on romantically pursuing a woman he referred to as his mentee.

Like I said if they want to judge and throw stones then be prepared for the same level of scrutiny and judgement that will come upon themselves.

NxNW said:

You need a guilty verdict in a court of law before you can make such assumptions.

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No you don't when it comes to terrorism. Did Biden and Obama get a guilty verdict in a court of law before they took action against terrorist. Did Isreal. If we waiterd for that then the terrorist win. They don't play by our rules in the first place.

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In this country, we don't kill the innocent, nor do we kill the guilty without a trial.

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Yes you do when it comes to terror. They are not innocent. That you frame it that way shows your bias.

stevevw said:

We have actually given up our way of life

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I would change that to the nations identity and culture that it grew from scratch

Yarddog said:

This probably more lies from Trump and Holman. They make wild claims but never back them up with proof. In the past, they made claims about 300,000 missing children, which weren't actually missing. The bulk of these were children that either didn't show up for their hearing or didn't receive a notice for their hearing. Trump and Holman claimed these were missing children and were being trafficked. They provided no proof of this in the past and haven't this time either.

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The Biden administration did not deny this number, instead they said that those children weren’t actually missing because no one was looking for them

Happy belated feast all! And happy second Sunday of advent!

PloverWing said:

Thanks! I'd forgotten today was the 6th. One of my seasonal decorations is a little St Nicholas, complete with bishop's robes, that I add to our household decorations on December 6. Time for him to take his place on the dining room shelf!

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Not that I need any more decorations, but where did you get him?

Shane R said:

I dislike that language in the Nicene Creed. And it's a translation issue. The older texts read: "Of one substance with the Father". Let me explain.

In the American context, where anyone with a little charisma and a 6th grade education and a King James Bible can scrape together a group of 20 followers (hence the meme of Pr. Bob, the ignoramus), the quoted phrase tends to lead to a Modalist view. Of course, the people I just referenced don't use creeds but they seem to be particularly effective at spreading their views through media. So those who do are tainted with the influence of these ignorant people.

I can live with 'consubstantial with the Father' as the Romans were using recently, although that is a word that needs unpacked for 93% of the faithful; essence and substance are both better.

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We still use “consubstantial” in our nicene creed - me a RC

very nice post!

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I provided factual links, so your claims of bias are without merit.

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What factual links.

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It's not a witch hunt when he's convicted by an impartial jury.

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It was not an impartial jury or not even an impartial who clearly hated Trump from his rhetoric about him. It was a witch hunt and no other person would have been subject to such attention and deranged levels of scrutiny.

We are now seeing the lawfare against Trump with Russia gate which was purposely designed to undermine Trump. Even to the point that it led to actual assassination attempts on his life. Give me a break lol. I have not seen such blatant descrimination and persecution of a single person in modern history.

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So far, no dirty secrets have come out.

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So we have approaching 100 arrests in relation to the hidden fraud the Dems reined over and much more will come out. That in itself shows they are willing to hide stuff and lie to ensure they keep power.

We have seen the connection to Epstein and the so called Russian collusion being exposed as lies and a purposeful plan to undermine a sitting president. It will all come out.

When people get to the point where they are willing to lie to make someone look bad then you know they are willing to do other stuff behind closed doors. I guarentee this will be the case. I know the psychology of humans.

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Well you know about the massive fraud, that alone blows anything said about Trump out of the water. More will come out implicating Dems overseeing massive fraud and criminal activities.

The Epstein files have Dems all over it. Why was Clinton on Epsteins plane 11 times. Its strange how this has never been investigated by the Dems with the same vigor as they did against Trump.

That in itself disqualifis the Lefts complaints based on hypocracy. They have no moral ground to stand on. They have shown bias and cannot be trusted. So all these negative spectualtions against Trump are tarred with bias and partisanship.

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The GOP were the ones suppressing the files.

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Now they were not. The Dems sat on them for years and years. They knew before it was a thing lol.

Trump has actually released them.

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I'm not the one committing fraud and rape and pardoning drug dealers.

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Thats what I am saying. Your complaining about Trump but absolutely silent on the the same sins that Biden and others have done. Its hypocracy and disqualifies anyone as untrustworthy.

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That must be why his approval rating is so low.

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Actually no, the support for immigration policy is high.

Polls Show Americans Overwhelmingly Support President Trump’s Mass Deportations

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Nobody cares about flying on a plane. They care about traveling to the island, which Clinton never did. He said to go ahead and release the files, since he's got nothing to hide.

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No body cares that a politician is in Epsteins company many times. But when they get the whiff of Trump anywhere near him and all hell breaks loose. Its hypocracy at its worse. There is no credibility. I don;y trust them.

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Trump was the one who allowed him to be killed in prison, not the Dems.

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More conspiracies. You will go to any lengths to get Trump.

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There you go, trying to change the subject.

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Lol it was you who brought up Trumps fraud as a way to show how bad he was. I am doing the same and showing that those who accuse him have done much worse.

In fact just that one act of historical record fraud disqualifies completely any credibility for speaking about morality fullstop on any subject.

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Which "elites" are these?

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Thats what we would like to know. Mainly the ones funding the party. Like Soros and others. But also Obama and other faceless people behind the scenes who were calling the shots while Biden was incompetent and incoherent to do so.

The ones who decided it was Kamala and to bypass the democratic process. The ones who orchestrated the whole Russia briefcase lie to undermine Trumps presidency. Those types.

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Never happened.

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What the gas lighting of a nation over Bidens competency. That in itself tells us a lot.

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So far we haven't seen anything.

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From what I understand there has been some similar fraud found in California. Some States are refusing to hand over their books. Have they got something to hide. We will see. But it seems strange that they want to deny access to check if there is fraud.

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The GOP? I don't see any Dem scandals at all.

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Lol are you living on Mars. This shows the bias that you cannot see any lol.

They have been busted for lawfare and telling media companies to control the information they post and to make out Trump is bad. We have seen how they were biased against conservatives and Christians. Give me a break. Your only doing exactly what they have been doing lol. Gas lighting everyone and pretending they are the good ones.


ICYMI from the NYPost: FBI Emails Obtained by Grassley ‘Expose Biden DOJ’s Obsession with Piling on Trump Charges’

LAWFARE: HOW THE MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE AND A NEW YORK STATE JUDGE VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL RIGHTS OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

ICYMI: Grassley Exposes Biden FBI for Targeting Nearly 100 Republican Groups and Individuals

Just like the BBC they doctored reports to make out Trump was bad.

Weaponization Committee Exposes the Biden White House Censorship Regime in New Report

Would not trust a word the Trump haters say.

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I want to hear about these dirty little secrets. How do they compare to Stormy Daniels and Micheal Cohen and Trump's collusion with Russia?

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I just mentioned a few above. Theres many. See the thing is while Biden was in no one could investigate. But now Trump is in they are finding all sorts of corruption. Watch it come out. Thats why I say be careful about throwing stones in glass houses.

New Evidence Uncovers Obama-Directed Creation of False Intelligence Report Used to Launch Years-long Coup to Undermine President Trump and the American People

Valletta said:

There was a lot of dishonesty during the Biden administration on immigration and the border--remember they claimed the border was safe, secure, and closed while our country was being flooded with people from around the world.

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The border was as safe under Biden as it was under Trump. Dishonesty seems to be a problem with most politicians.

Valletta said:

Dropping the Trump administration's DNA checking was a huge invitation to the cartels to step up child trafficking.

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What??? That policy was continued and expanded under the Biden administration, to include about 2000 US Citizens.

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I think a large portion of the nation is in denial in regard to the enormity of these crimes.

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I don't doubt that a large number of children are trafficked but Trump shouldn't lie about those numbers.

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In so many cases there was not proper vetting or follow-up or record keeping by the Biden administration.

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Maybe they should ask Homan, since he was Deputy Director under Trump's 1st term and when many of the missing children disappeared.

Valletta said:

Because of this we may never know the actual numbers. We all can pray that those still being trafficked will be rescued.

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Amen.

Rvmb said:

Lake Baikal is flat & frozen flat many months of the years (80kmX600km)
If you sat on the edge of the lake with a 100km range powerful tripod telescope approx 1 meter above the ice, how far away on the flat ice would I have to be before you could no longer see me ?

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Cold dense air above the ice would cause light to refract more than usual, so you will likely be able to see further in Winter than during Summer.
Similar experiments have been done using laser light, without taking into account atmospheric refraction. The laser light actually bends downwards due to the density gradient of the atmosphere.

Quantum of Solace.

Michie said:

Pastor Stuart Knechtle recently claimed that President Donald Trump's 19-year-old son, Barron, is interested in claims of supernatural dreams about Jesus Christ in the Muslim world and is "very close" to becoming a Christian.

Knechtle, who has 2.4 million followerson TikTok and serves as assistant pastor at Grace Community Church in New Canaan, Connecticut, shared Thursday on "The George Janko Show" that he recently witnessed to Barron on the phone at 12:30 a.m. about Christianity.

“I thought I was hitting him with everything but the kitchen sink when it came to all the evidence for God and Christianity," Knechtle said.

"I thought I was really on, I was pumped," he said. "And at the very end, I came up pretty much totally open-handed with nothing. But I brought up dreams and revelations."

Knechtle claimed Barron was fascinated when he brought up reports that have circulated in recent years of many Muslims experiencing striking encounters with Jesus Christ in their dreams. Mission Frontiers magazine reported that a quarter of Muslim conversions to Christianity are because of such experiences.

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Barron Trump interested in supernatural dreams, 'very close' to becoming Christian: pastor

Pastor Stuart Knechtle recently claimed that President Donald Trump s 19-year-old son, Barron, is interested in claims of supernatural dreams about Jesus Christ in the Muslim world and is very close

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It sure would be great to see Barron give himself to Jesus. Maybe his conversion would help other family members follow suit.

keras said:

The ungodly follower's of the 'beast' are still alive despite the punishments of the Trumpets and Bowls. Proved by Revelation 16:1-10
They will celebrate the killing of the 2 Witnesses.
Then after 3 1/2 days, Jesus will Return and call them up to Him, along with all the faithful peoples. Matthew 24:30-31

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keras, why would a Christian nation made up of totally Christians (of your replacement theory) need two witnesses testifying to them in Jerusalem ? The entire nation (of your replacement theory) will all already believe in Jesus.

truthuprootsevil said:

Seems like the Finnish government is telling the church what it can and can't do.

I don't know of a church that mistreats anyone of the lgbtq. What churches do is call out the sin, they don't mistreat the people, or treat them any differently in some cases treat them better than other members who are not lgbtq.

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I know, when I became a Christian 20 years ago, I checked my heterosexual adultery at the door even though some sinful desire remains. If I ask the Church to accommodate my sin then I deny the Lord & everything Paul tells us in Romans 7 & 8 & what John tells us in 1 John 1:5-10.

RDKirk said:

That's not a merely semantic difference...it determines who can be held accountable for what.

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I can appreciate that, too.
Nonetheless, I disagree that they are separable issues or separate issues. You can't decide to do something without simultaneously thinking through how to do it/how to be successful at it. Those are the exact elements which create the decision to NOT do something or to do something.

Inflation Under Biden vs. Trump: A Data-Driven ComparisonInflation, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), tracks the average change in prices for a basket of goods and services. Presidents influence inflation indirectly through fiscal policies, but external factors like global events, supply chain disruptions, and Federal Reserve actions play major roles. Donald Trump's first term (2017–2021) occurred during a period of stable, low inflation pre-COVID, while Joe Biden's term (2021–2025) began amid pandemic recovery and saw a sharp spike before cooling. For context, Trump's second term began in January 2025, but as of December 2025, it has been too short to yield a full-term comparison—current year-over-year inflation hovers around 3%, similar to late 2024 levels under Biden.Key MetricsHere's a side-by-side comparison of average annual inflation rates (year-over-year CPI) and cumulative price increases. Data is sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and analyses from economic outlets. Averages for Trump reflect his first term only; Biden's covers the full four years.
Annual Breakdown for ContextTo illustrate the volatility, here's the annual average CPI inflation by year:
Broader Context and Caveats

• Why the difference? Trump's term saw low energy prices, deregulation, and tax cuts that supported growth without overheating. Biden inherited a recovering economy but faced COVID stimulus effects (e.g., $1.9T American Rescue Plan), labor shortages, and energy shocks from Russia's 2022 invasion. Inflation cooled under Biden via Fed rate hikes (from near-zero to 5.25–5.5%), but cumulative effects lingered.
• Public Perception vs. Reality: Despite cooling, 2022's spike made inflation a top voter issue in 2024, with many blaming Biden despite shared pandemic roots. Early 2025 data shows stability under Trump, but proposed tariffs could raise prices in the future.
• Not Just Presidential Control: Economists emphasize that no president "causes" inflation alone—the Fed sets rates, and global events dominate.

Overall, inflation was markedly higher and more volatile under Biden than under Trump's first term, though both eras highlight how external shocks shape outcomes more than policy alone. For the latest monthly data, check the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Michie said:

Rosie O’Donnell’s hatred of President Donald Trump led her therapist to recently plead with her to go two days without posting anything about the president on social media; O’Donnell, according to a Washington Post profile on Saturday, only lasted “a few hours” before she was compelled to post about Trump again.

The comic’s “fixation” on the president, as WaPo put it, has also become a concern for her longtime friends. One of those friends, Jeanne Kopetic, insisted O’Donnell has “got to disconnect” from following the news, because she is so consumed by what Trump does.

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Rosie O’Donnell’s Trump ‘Fixation’ Made Her Therapist Challenge Her to Go Two Days Without Posting About Him — She Made It a Few Hours

Rosie O'Donnell's hatred of President Trump led her therapist to recently pleading with her to go two days without posting about the president on social media

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That's funny. She and Trump are two of a kind.

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“The evil of human trafficking cannot be overstated. It’s modern-day slavery. By leaving our borders open and even encouraging people to come here illegally, Biden enabled the largest human-trafficking operation in modern history,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said after a rescue operation this past July.

NEW: Immigration Agents Have Rescued More Than 60,000 Children From Human Smugglers

Federal immigration agents under the Trump Administration have rescued more than 62,000 migrant children from situations involving sex trafficking and forced labor, White House border czar Tom Homan announced Sunday. “Over half a million children were smuggled into this country under Joe Biden,”...

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May God bless continued efforts to rescue victims of human trafficking.

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This probably more lies from Trump and Holman. They make wild claims but never back them up with proof. In the past, they made claims about 300,000 missing children, which weren't actually missing. The bulk of these were children that either didn't show up for their hearing or didn't receive a notice for their hearing. Trump and Holman claimed these were missing children and were being trafficked. They provided no proof of this in the past and haven't this time either.

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...when looking for the JAGS’ replacements, Hegseth’s staff prioritized questions about whether candidates agreed with former President Joe Biden’s policies rather than their interpretations of law...

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That was a very clever thing to do by Hegseth. When you consider our nation's negligent National Security and DoD objectives, 2021-'24.

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And yet Biden succeeded in the job where Trump has failed. That's what eats at Trump, now. He'll never get over it. Even republican historians put Biden far above Trump. And by now, Trump has declined too far to hope for a recovery.


06/26/2024 10:36 AM EDT

The number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has plummeted 40 percent since President Joe Biden clamped down on asylum earlier this month, administration officials said Wednesday.

Daily crossings have fallen below 2,400. That’s the lowest level since Jan. 17, 2021, right before the president took office. But encounters still remain too high for the president’s newly implemented restrictions to be lifted: Migrants will continue to be barred from seeking asylum in between ports of entry until average border crossings have fallen below 1,500 for seven consecutive days.

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C'mon.


According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, prices for food are 2.45% higher in 2025 versus 2024 (a $0.49 difference in value).
Between 2024 and 2025: Food experienced an average inflation rate of 2.45% per year. This rate of change indicates significant inflation.

Food price inflation, 2024→2025

This calculator uses the official Consumer Price Index for Food from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food costing $20 in 2024 would cost $20.49 in 2025.

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Since early 2025, tariffs have returned to the center of U.S. trade policy debates. In this blog post, we take a close look at how these developments have started to show up in consumer prices—particularly in the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation measure.

While headline PCE inflation has increased only modestly in recent months, the categories of goods most exposed to international trade tell a different story. In the U.S., prices for durable goods—such as vehicles, electronics and furniture—have increased noticeably. These price movements align with the timing of tariff hikes earlier this year. The figure below shows this divergence, plotting the evolution of the headline PCE price index and durable goods PCE price index, in percent deviations from January 2024, relative to their linear trends estimated using data for 2024.

How Tariffs Are Affecting Prices in 2025

A model suggests that although tariffs have been only partially passed through to consumers, they already have exerted measurable pressure on prices.

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This is another reason why even republican historians rate Biden as a much better president than Trump.

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Biden waited 3 and a half years before he took action to slow down the flow of illegal immigration at the border, all the while telling us he couldn’t do anything without congress. He only took action because the election was coming up.
Now Trump was not my first choice and much of your criticism is deserved but your posts are delusional when it comes to Biden and nobody cares what 150 so called experts rate the presidents.

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Well, that is certainly new.

-- A2SG, maybe it will start a new trend....