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How do firms pass energy and food costs through the supply chain

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How did firms pass on these cost shocks through the supply chain and all the way onto consumer prices? How much and how quickly can firms pass through such large cost shocks? How do cost shocks pass through the supply chain? But firms also felt the brunt of higher costs. Chart 1: The idea Source: Authors’ calculations.

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The Strange Spending Trends Around Sales Tax Holidays

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How Tax Holidays Work. The first income tax holiday experiment was done in New York State in the summer of 1997, and the perception that the high-tax state had managed to achieve a signifiant revenue boost via a weekend-long tax holiday kicked off the trend in the U.S. That spend is big spend. In 2017, Americans spent $83.6

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