My @piie.com colleague Mary Lovely in the @nytimes.com today on the pitfalls of arbitrary trade policy. Strong-arm leverage tactics make work short-term but have bad long-term consequences. What's the saying: a moment of pleasure, a lifetime of regret?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-tariffs-china-mexico.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/opinion/trump-tariffs-china-mexico.html
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As an economist, what will firing 200,000 people will do to our economy? It's my uneducated opinion that we'll go into a recession. What think you?