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Economists are as accurate as fortune tellers. Regarding tariffs, they also predicted calamity from his first round, and that didn't happen in the US.

• philjohn 2y ago
  As another poster pointed out, Harley Davidson had a painful time, and ended up having to make more motorcylces outside the US. Similarly, Soy Bean farmers needed a large bailout. Both of those sound pretty bad to me, and they were somewhat targetted - he has suggested blanket tariffs, which you only need to look back to Smoot-Hawley, which is generally accepted to have worsened the great depression.