Economics
Retailers Have a Plan to Oppose Trump’s Tariffs: ‘Ferris Bueller’
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Ferris Bueller may have missed his economics lesson on tariffs the day he cut class, but one of Washington’s biggest trade groups is making sure President Donald Trump and other policy makers don’t.
The National Retail Federation is starting an advertising campaign this week featuring actor and commentator Ben Stein, who’s reprising his role as the economics teacher from the 1986 teen comedy “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” arguing that tariffs are “B-A-D Economics” and hurt consumers.