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Tariff Stochasticity

Nat Bullard · 31 Mar 2025 · nathanielbullard.com ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Tariffs reach even markets normally insulated from trade policy, like electricity.

    Their wordsBut, tariffs are unavoidable, even within the ringfence that is US energy trade, and even within electricity trade more specifically.

  2. Our reading

    Tariff policy is too erratic to reliably predict or plan around.

    Their wordsThe short, and very much un-sweet, vision of a tariff-bound economy is that it is stochastic. We can observe it, measure it, analyze it, but we cannot really predict it.