‘It didn’t have to be this way’: Top economist warns affordability crisis will continue as tariffs and immigration crackdown send inflation higher

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Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi lamented what could’ve been, if President Donald Trump hadn’t waged war on trade and immigration.

In a social media post on Sunday, he noted that prices have surged since the pandemic and are continuing to climb at an “uncomfortably quick pace,” with the country now suffering an affordability crisis.