I confess, the tariff stuff confuses me. It’s not just President Trump’s schizophrenic approach to them: threatening, leveling, pausing, doubling, and retracting the tariffs. It’s not even the boomeranging court decisions of halting, then reinstating the tariffs. No, my biggest question is: if the majority of economists say tariffs will only torpedo the U.S. economy, why is President Trump hellbent on them? No president, particularly one who so often sees things through the lens of dollars and cents, wants the economy to crater on their watch.
That’s why I really appreciated this conversation with
. He’s the chief economist at his conservative think tank American Compass, as well as someone who has the ear of Trump and J.D. Vance. I’m not an economist and don’t pretend to grasp the nuances of the arguments for and against. All the more reason, I enjoyed talking to Oren who tried to help us understand his position.I hope you get something out of the conversation too. Love to hear your thoughts.
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