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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Is Trumponomics Working, or Not?

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Federal Reserve chooses not to change interest rates despite calls from the Trump administration to cut them.  So how much will President Trump’s August. 1 deadline for reaching tariffs agreements contribute to the economy, which is growing slowly, but still confounding the experts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:23.6

Is the American economy struggling or on the cusp of a new golden age or somewhere in between?

0:32.0

Even economists of various stripes can't seem to decide in a week when we're getting a flood of economic data

0:39.8

that ought to be able to tell us just where we are on economic growth and heading into the

0:46.5

future. We'll try to make sense of all the numbers for you here on Potomac Watch, as well as

0:52.2

the Federal Reserve decision to stand pat on interest rates. Welcome,

0:56.6

I'm Paul as you go. This is our daily podcast from the Wall Street Journal opinion pages,

1:01.1

and I'm here with two of my closest colleagues and watchers on the economy. Joe Sternberg and

1:07.8

Mary O'Grady. Welcome to you both. So let's just start out with a couple of details here for

1:13.4

facts to give us a little backdrop. First, the Fed didn't change its interest rates this week's

1:19.4

with Chairman Jay Powell basically saying at his presser that they're still waiting to see about the

1:24.2

impact of tariffs on inflation. And in the meantime, the economy is not bad.

1:28.3

Growth is slow, but it's doing fine.

1:30.3

We also get a flood of new tariff deals by the president.

1:33.3

They're coming daily now ahead of his Friday, August 1st deadline for reaching agreements.

1:40.3

A lot of those deals are coming in with higher tariffs.

1:43.3

Many people thought,

1:44.6

higher than the 10% that he imposed in April. Meanwhile, you get GDP, the gross domestic product

1:51.1

numbers came in at 3% for the second quarter, which sounds pretty good, except if you look

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