📉 Tariffs Didn’t Spark Inflation Like Expected — What New Research Means for Investors 🏢📊

Bill Rapp, CRE Broker

Published on: 16/01/2026

Tariffs, Inflation, and the Real Economic Impact Investors Need to Understand For years, sweeping U.S. tariffs have been widely assumed to trigger sharp inflation spikes. The logic seemed straightforward: tariffs raise import costs, businesses pass those costs on, and prices rise across the economy. New academic research challenges that assumption.