{"id":3877,"date":"2025-08-08T06:10:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/as-trumps-tariffs-kick-in-economist-breaks-down-inflation-and-recession-warning-signs\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T13:10:22","slug":"as-trumps-tariffs-kick-in-economist-breaks-down-inflation-and-recession-warning-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/2025\/08\/08\/as-trumps-tariffs-kick-in-economist-breaks-down-inflation-and-recession-warning-signs\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump&#8217;s tariffs kick in, economist breaks down inflation and recession warning signs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After months of delay and backroom dealmaking, the Trump administration has imposed sweeping tariffs on nearly 100 countries, sending U.S. import duties soaring to their highest levels in nearly a century. To help break down the impact of the new tariffs and interpret some signs we\u2019re seeing across the economy, Geoff Bennett spoke with Diane Swonk, chief economist at KPMG.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of delay and backroom dealmaking, the Trump administration has imposed sweeping tariffs on nearly 100 countries, sending U.S. import duties soaring to their highest levels in nearly a century. To help break down the impact of the new tariffs and interpret some signs we\u2019re seeing across the economy, Geoff Bennett spoke with Diane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatshappeningtoday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}