Is the Trade War in the Room With Us?
The White House’s tariff-palooza hasn’t been nearly as earth-shattering as some had warned.
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Way back at the beginning of April, even before President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day, some people were already tired of the whole trade war thing. They sent emails with subject lines like, “If I have to read the word ‘tariff’ one more time...” and warned of impending economic doom. “At the rate things are going,” they wrote, “we’re gonna have to start wearing chicken-feed sack dresses and making Ambrosia salad like Kit Kittredge during the Great Depression.”