Detailed Consumer Price Index Shows No
Substantive Inflation from Tariffs
Posted By: earlybird, 1/14/2026 2:21:44 PM
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the December price information on Tuesday 1/13/26 [DATA HERE]. Overall, the topline inflation number is moderate at 2.7% much lower than economists projected.However, that’s not the only important element. To get an understanding of the impact from tariffs to imported consumer goods, you can look at TABLE-2 [DATA HERE]. As you skim the categories we import the most, electronics, television, sporting goods, apparel, shoes, tools, furniture, etc. what you will note is that the prices are stable with negligible inflation impact noted.
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From the moment the Renee Good case broke, it had all the ingredients of a political wildfire. On one side, you had left-wing activists, media outlets, and grifters working overtime to turn the death of radical lesbian Renee Good into the next “Summer of Love.” On the other hand, you had reasonable people who watched the footage and tried to figure out what really happened… because when more video angles were shared, the narrative everyone was being sold began to unravel.m (snip)Thanks to a new report from CBS News, the media’s favorite victim script has been dealt a serious death blow.
Justices Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, both appointees of President Donald Trump, appeared to be buying into “transgender” ideology during oral arguments for a case regarding men playing in women’s sports.
Gorsuch’s major contribution to the Tuesday oral arguments thus far was relatively early on, when he suggested that people identifying as “transgender” should be considered a “discrete” group “given the history of de jure discrimination against transgender individuals in this country.” The justice essentially asked whether those who claim to be “transgender” should be a legally protected class.
DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro Gives Full
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Jerome Powell 6 replies
Context to DOJ Investigation of Fed Chairman
Jerome Powell 6 replies
U.S. Attorney for the District of Washington DC, Jeanine Pirro, goes public explaining the backstory of the DOJ reviewing the Federal Reserve Board and Chairman Jerome Powell.
As noted by USAO Pirro, Chairman Powell refused to respond to questions for two months despite three repeated requests. The DOJ was then forced to issue a subpoena to get a response. Again, Powell never responded; instead, he went to the media to claim he was being politically targeted. WATCH: (Video)
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) released the December price information on Tuesday 1/13/26 [DATA HERE]. Overall, the topline inflation number is moderate at 2.7% much lower than economists projected.However, that’s not the only important element. To get an understanding of the impact from tariffs to imported consumer goods, you can look at TABLE-2 [DATA HERE]. As you skim the categories we import the most, electronics, television, sporting goods, apparel, shoes, tools, furniture, etc. what you will note is that the prices are stable with negligible inflation impact noted.
The United States is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, the State Department told The Epoch Times.
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The suspension takes effect Jan. 21The State Department said in a statement posted on X that it “will pause immigrant visa processing from 75 countries whose migrants take welfare from the American people at unacceptable rates. The freeze will remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people.”
The department said the pause affects countries “whose immigrants often become public charges on the United States upon arrival.
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Juliana Peres Magalhães, 25, took the stand Tuesday for Brendan Banfield's trial on aggravated murder and firearms charges in the deaths of his wife and a stranger.
Christine Banfield, a pediatric ICU nurse, was stabbed and Joseph Ryan was shot in a Herndon, Virginia, home on Feb. 24, 2023, medical experts and police testified Tuesday.
Prosecutors are trying to convince a jury that Brendan Banfield, 40, staged the killings to look like Ryan was an intruder who stabbed Christine before Brendan shot Ryan in defense.
“We’re here today because Brendan Banfield, the man seated behind me, killed his wife, Christine Banfield, and another man, named Joseph Ryan
Actor Timothy Busfield "presented himself" to authorities, a representative for Busfield confirmed Tuesday, after two children accused him of sex abuse in New Mexico.(snip)“As my client said during the video when he was turning himself in, he wants to turn himself in because he wants to clear his name and reputation," Stein said. "He didn’t do anything wrong. These accusations are false as the investigator from the independent law firm found." (snip)"Based on what was alleged, and all evidence gathered, including multiple witness statements, I found no corroborating evidence that Mr. Busfield engaged in inappropriate conduct or that he was ever alone with the twins on set," McGovern
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold state laws that ban transgender athletes from taking part in girls' and women's school and college sports.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, heard more than three hours of oral arguments in separate cases involving two transgender students, Becky Pepper-Jackson and Lindsay Hecox, who challenged state bans in West Virginia and Idaho, respectively.
Both won lower court injunctions that allowed them to continue to compete in sports.During arguments, questions asked by justices indicated a majority appeared reluctant to find that the laws violate either the 14th Amendment to the Constitution,
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the first official set of Muslim Brotherhood chapters that are designated as “global terrorist” organizations. The first set will not come as a big surprise: Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon.
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood were chased out of the country by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi over a decade ago. The Jordanian chapter is similarly aligned and was previously targeted by King Abdullah. The Lebanese faction is not as well known, but their support for Hamas is well understood.
The Left tried to bury the Somali fraud story, but it just wouldn’t stay buried.(snipNew reporting shows that dozens of Somali-owned transportation companies have been collecting government funds while literally transporting no one. They are nonexistent operations. According to investigator David Hoch, entire transportation outfits only exist on paper. He visited around seventy of them and found nothing, nada, zilch. No offices, vehicles, or business activity at all.(snip). Hoch says that when Somali patients go to the doctor, they suddenly “forget” how to speak English, triggering the use of these paid interpretersAnd those interpreters bill around one hundred bucks an hour. (snip). The interpreters also need transportation,
Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett
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Discusses Economic Situation and Jerome
Powell Investigation 0 replies
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett appears on CNBC to discuss the current status of the Trump economy. Obviously, the first question to Hassett surrounds the announcement by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell that he is under a grand jury investigation.
Director Hassett rightly notes the DOJ is independently investigating the issues of Powell as a result of both a Senate Banking Committee (Tim Scott) and House criminal referral for misleading and false testimony related to the construction of the FED building in Washington DC. Both the decisions by the Federal Reserve and the Dept of Justice are not outcomes of President Trump’s decision making.
Minnesota sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a court to halt a massive federal immigration operation they claim is unconstitutional, politically motivated and endangering public safety.
The lawsuit claims “Operation Metro Surge” has led to racial profiling and disruptions to public life.
“The unlawful deployment of thousands of armed, masked, and poorly trained federal agents is hurting Minnesota,” said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison. “People are being racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted."
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Reports broke Monday that Adams had entered hospice care and was declining at a rapid pace. As of press time, his X account was broadcasting a live video of his friends mourning his death.
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Faith leaders, union representatives and community members are calling for a Day of Truth and Freedom on Friday, Jan. 23 — urging all Minnesotans not to go to work, school or go shopping in response to Operation Metro Surge. Organizers held a news conference Tuesday morning outside of the Hennepin County Government Center in downtown Minneapolis to announce the statewide day of mourning and action. It comes amid ongoing tensions over the federal law enforcement surge in Minnesota that escalated after ICE officer Jonathan Ross fatally shot 37-year-old Minneapolis resident Renee Good last week. Auxiliary Minister JaNaé Bates Imari of
President Trumps said Tuesday that he's preparing to halt federal funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1 -- potentially yanking billions in revenue in response to laws barring cooperation with immigration agents. "Starting February 1, we're not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they do everything possible to protect criminals at the expense of American citizens," Trump said during a speech in Detroit. "It breeds fraud and crime and all of the other problems that come. So we're not making any payment to anybody that supports sanctuary cities.
The O’Keefe Media Group on Tuesday released video of a Secret Service agent assigned to JD Vance leaking sensitive information to an undercover reporter.
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A China-born US Navy sailor who sold sensitive ship information to the Chinese government under the encouragement of his mother was ordered to spend 16 years in prison on Monday.
Jinchao Wei, 25, was blasted as a “traitor” as he was ordered to spend 200 months behind bars by a federal judge in San Diego for selling national defense information to an intelligence officer working for the People’s Republic of China for $12,000, the Justice Department announced.
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I don’t think anyone would confuse Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson with a sharp legal mind. She often comes across as the poster child for what’s wrong with DEI hires. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Little v. Hecox, a case that will likely decide whether laws barring biological males from competing on girls’ sports teams are constitutional. Given that Jackson famously admitted during her confirmation hearings that she didn’t know what a woman was — because, as she put it, she’s “not a biologist” — you knew she was bound to be a real spectacle.
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Access to Little Dume, which boasts
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Trump promised to “discuss this topic, including further housing and affordability proposals, and more, at my speech in Davos in two weeks.” So there is time to present clear arguments that should convince him to quietly drop the plan.
If we had an audience with the president, we’d first remind him that the government in a free country has no authority to determine who
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