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Author: FlyingCircus ✧  😊 😞
Number: of 48447 
Subject: Total Economic Policy Fail
Date: 05/12/2025 10:06 PM
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Rarely has an economic policy been repudiated as soundly, and as quickly, as President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs—and by Mr. Trump’s own hand...
But a 10% across-the-board tariff is still four times the average U.S. tariff rate before Mr. Trump took office. It keeps the door open to the economically and politically destructive special pleading for tariff breaks for well-connected industries and companies at the expense of everyone else. U.S. companies protected by high tariffs will gradually lose their competitiveness against the rest of the world.

If there’s a silver lining to this turmoil, it is that markets have forced Mr. Trump to back down from his fever dream that high tariff walls will usher in a new “golden age.” The age didn’t last two months, and it was more leaden than golden. White House aide Peter Navarro, the main architect with Mr. Trump of the Liberation Day fiasco, has been repudiated.

Mr. Trump will not want to admit it, but he started a trade war with Adam Smith and lost. He’s not the first President to learn that lesson.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-china-trade-deal-t...

90 day reminder on calendars.

FC
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Author: weatherman   😊 😞
Number: of 48447 
Subject: Re: Total Economic Policy Fail
Date: 05/13/2025 10:32 AM
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as long as trump and his cronies get short term wins, tariff corruption will never been seen as a loss.
just by advance notice of actual tariff actions (and not simply 'buy' cheerleading), his insiders may have gained billions on market volatility.

as for his MAGA audience, i have yet to see a spin they rejected.
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Author: wzambon ✶🐝🐝 HONORARY
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Number: of 48447 
Subject: Re: Total Economic Policy Fail
Date: 05/13/2025 2:28 PM
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All you need to do is strengthen your immune system and you too can bring your grandkids swimming in a sewer!

Freedom!

Of course, by the time the Republicans gut all environmental regulations, the whole country will be a sewer, so perhaps RFKJr. Is simply showing us all how to survive in Trump’s Brave New World.
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Author: jerryab   😊 😞
Number: of 48447 
Subject: Re: Total Economic Policy Fail
Date: 05/13/2025 4:12 PM
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RFKJr. Is simply showing us all how to survive in Trump’s Brave New World.

The dead worm is smarter than RFKJr. And will likely live longer as well.
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