Where Trump Sees Tariff Boom, Many Economists See Gloom

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, US economy editor Matthew Boesler looks at the cloudy forecast from economists after new tariffs were rolled out. Sign up here and follow us at @bpolitics. Email our editors here.

President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement sent financial markets worldwide into a tailspin and economists back into their spreadsheets to revise forecasts.