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How a Key Trump Economic Adviser Thinks About Tariffs

Today on the Big Take DC: Trump’s new Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers explains his views on tariffs, weakening the dollar and more.

Stephen Miran speaks during a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, DC, on March 24.

Photographer: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg
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Before November last year, Stephen Miran was a little known economist, but a week after President Trump’s election he published a paper that set the financial world on fire. “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trade System” calls for a weaker US dollar and big tariff hikes.