By Kainoa Lowman
As Trump’s chaotic tariff announcements begin to impact global supply chains, Research Director Matt Stoller wrote an important analysis of how coming price and supply shocks could benefit giant corporations at the expense of small businesses. Corporations with market power, such as Albertsons, are already announcing they will not accept price increases from suppliers—creating something called the “waterbed effect,” where suppliers will compensate for these demands by raising prices on smaller stores. The dynamic also works in reverse, where retailers force small suppliers to give price concessions while accepting hikes from bigger suppliers.
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By Katie Hettinga
The White House continues to host closed-door “tariff-relief” talks with scores of countries. The president and other administration officials have been meeting with representatives of large corporations about tariff policy, while most in Congress and the public remains uninformed about what is being demanded from what countries. Two different types of deals seem to be emerging.
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Originally published in The Economic Populist — a project of the American Economic Liberties Project.