We have said it before and will say it again, tariffs are effective politics and ineffective economics. Just as the benefits of cheap Chinese labor were realized by the population at large in the form of disinflation of consumer goods, and the costs were acute manifested through the loss of some 2.4 million manufacturing jobs¹; the costs of tariffs are …
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