{"id":277222,"date":"2025-05-24T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/50-tariffs-on-the-eu-or-wegovy-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:08:18","slug":"50-tariffs-on-the-eu-or-wegovy-for-me-but-not-for-thee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/24\/50-tariffs-on-the-eu-or-wegovy-for-me-but-not-for-thee\/","title":{"rendered":"50% Tariffs on the EU? Or, Wegovy for me, but not for thee?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-56747\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Macro impact doesn\u2019t seem large according to <a href=\"https:\/\/budgetlab.yale.edu\/research\/state-us-tariffs-may-23-2025\">Yale Budget Lab<\/a>, but I can hardly wait to see how much a 50% increase in Ozempic and Wegovy prices will go over with the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imports_fm_europe_FT23may25.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56749\" src=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imports_fm_europe_FT23may25.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"733\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imports_fm_europe_FT23may25.png 733w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imports_fm_europe_FT23may25-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/imports_fm_europe_FT23may25-624x468.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/30ae7dfb-d55b-4aaf-ad62-0826d833460a\">FT<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is speculation that Mr. Trump is using one of a a similar GLP-1 agonist medication, but we can\u2019t be certain.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of a 50% tariff on EU goods imports (up from 10%) would seem to put to rest the proposition that the trade war has settled down on something like a 10% universal rate.<\/p>\n<p>Expect more trade policy uncertainty indices to kick up\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/05\/50-tariffs-on-the-eu-or-wegovy-for-me-but-not-for-thee\" title=\"2:35 am\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-05-24T02:35:39-07:00\">May 24, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/author\/menzie_chinn\" title=\"View all posts by Menzie Chinn\" rel=\"author\">Menzie Chinn<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/econbrowser.com\/archives\/2025\/05\/50-tariffs-on-the-eu-or-wegovy-for-me-but-not-for-thee\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Macro impact doesn\u2019t seem large according to Yale Budget Lab, but I can hardly wait to see how much a 50% increase in Ozempic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}