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💬 John Philpin

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🔗 Americans are paying for tariffs

By analyzing $4 trillion of shipments between January 2024 and November 2025, the Kiel Institute researchers found that foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.

“Perhaps we really do live in a time which begets nothing but the mediocre.”

💬 Michel de Montaigne (1533--1592)

🔗 via Austin Kleon

I wonder what Michel would have made of the 2020s.

Here’s a clever thing that I noticed last night about 🍎📺 .. you watch and something critical was said - and you missed it. You wind back 10 - 20 seconds - it plays again .. with temporary subtitles - that then fade away - brilliant.

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