Summary
- Dozens of leading economists and academics have taken issue with Trump’s tariff plan.
- The economists, including two Nobel laureates, signed a declaration criticizing Trump’s trade war.
- The signatories were especially critical of Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs.
You have to strike while the iron is hot. For the first time Americans are having to confront the fact that maybe his economic plans aren’t good and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. The stock market and grocery stores are every day reflections of it, it’s undeniable. He was able to get away with it last time he was able to hide behind Covid “wrecking the beautiful economy.“
So yes go ahead and get your magic Internet points with easy, flippant, canned responses. But these things actually can matter.