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Larry Kudlow: Federal Reserve groupthink is a bureaucratic disease

Buddy DoyleBy Buddy DoyleJune 19, 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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As Breitbart’s John Carney put it, the Federal Reserve has gone to war against tariffs. Unlike the Middle East, this is a phony war.

The Fed stubbornly refuses to lower its target rate, because they have decided that Mr. Trump’s tariffs will increase inflation. So I ask, what exactly is your model of tariff inflation? Because so far, with a 10% baseline tariff in recent months, inflation rates have come down, not up. Since January, the CPI has eased down to only 1.4% annually, below the Fed’s 2% target. So, tariff inflation has been missing in action. Yet Jay Powell does not refer to this.

Powell himself is not an economist. He’s essentially a bureaucrat being driven by several hundred economists on the Board staff. But again, we don’t know what their model is. The whole Fed right now is guilty of group think. And President Trump has fingered that problem by saying that the Fed board is complicit with the mistakes of Jay Powell. Group think is a bureaucratic disease. All these Fed announcements have 12 to nothing votes. So where are the Trump appointees? Where is Miki Bowman, the new Vice Chair for Supervision? Where is Chris Waller, the former Notre Dame economics professor? Where is some diversity of thought and why aren’t these board members questioning Powell’s slippery and uninformed anecdotes of his new tariff war on inflation?

Fed policy is completely opaque and non-transparent.We have no idea how they arrive at their conclusions.

So, here’s a thought: during Mr. Trump’s first term, he put on a number of tariffs. During the China trade talks, he implemented a 25% tariff on China.  

Additionally, he put 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum, 30% tariffs on solar panels, and 20% tariffs on washing machines — and yet the inflation rate during those years was basically 2% or even less. You can’t generate an economic model based simply on one variable.

For example, the Trump tax cuts in the first term increased incentives on business investment and production, creating more goods on the supply-side,  more productivity as well, and all of that helped keep inflation down while the economy was growing. In fact, five-year productivity for non-financial companies is increasing at a 2.6% rate — which is spawning growth without inflation.

Republican Congress is about to pass a tax cut bill that will include permanent immediate cash expensing for machinery, equipment, and factories. That kind of long-lived capital deepening will spur much more growth without any inflation, according to a recent academic study publish by the NBER. Now, I ask, has the Fed included that in its economic models? We don’t know. They’re not saying. They’re just clinging to this idea that Trump tariffs, which are actually aimed at lowering trade barriers and leveling the trade playing field, and opening up market access for American companies — all of which could actually reduce inflationary pressures by spurring even more supply-side growth — and of course, Mr. Trump’s ambitious deregulation policy, another counter-inflationary move.

But Jay Powell never talks about any of these tax and regulatory reforms. Instead, at his press conference this week, he blathered on saying “increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and weigh on economic activity” and then he says “everyone I know is forecasting a meaningful increase on prices from tariffs because someone has to pay.” Huh? I know a bunch of people who think exporters will pay. I know other people who think our companies will pay.  In fact, I know a whole bunch of people who don’t think tariffs can be inflationary because the money supply has dropped from 30% to only 4% growth.Or even if a consumer has to pay more for one item, they’ll pay less for another item, leaving the price index flat.

So, I go back to Jay Powell and the whole Fed group think. Somebody should tell him that he’s in charge of monetary policy, not trade policy. He has no idea about future trade deals or for that matter tariff rates. And somebody should tell him to please explain to the American public what the heck he’s doing to their mortgage rates, their credit cards, and their car loans.

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