How Tariffs on China Are Making the Holiday Season Less Merry for Shoppers

How tariffs on China are making the holiday season less merry for shoppers

This year it might not be the Grinch who threatens to steal Christmas, but tariffs. According to an analysis by Lending Tree, if Trump’s tariffs had been in place last year, they would have increased consumer costs by $28 billion — about $130 per shopper. John Yang speaks with Nathan Gordon, president of online retailer Christmas Central, about the effect of tariffs on seasonal shopping.

Saturday Report 12/13/25 — The Trump Grinch That Stole America!

—The Trump Grinch that stole America! The Trump regime has fired the person in charge of government statistics and is trying to hide what’s going on, but every indicator out there seems to point to our having already fallen into a serious recession. Substack newsletters are complaining that they’re not getting new paid sign-ups, two nonprofits that I do fundraising for are falling seriously short for the first time in years, advertising revenue …

The tariffs that stole Christmas: How Trump’s trade war is remaking America’s toy aisles

US President Donald Trump’s tariff regime is reconfiguring global trade flows and reshaping how businesses around the world work with their American counterparts. With China a major manufacturer, small and medium-sized US toy retailers are realising they lack the economies of scale to compete with the giants.