“Tariffs…the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” – Donald Trump
On Wednesday, April 2, Donald Trump fulfilled one of his most fervent campaign promises: In an elaborate Rose Garden ceremony, he held up a large board on which our trading partners and the tariffs to be levied in each were listed. “Liberation Day” (his words) had arrived. We in the U.S. no longer would be played for suckers, and above all else, manufacturing jobs soon would be flooding back to the U.S. because goods produced in the U.S., of course, would be exempt from tariffs.
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