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Pototan

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Thu Apr 10, 2025, 06:48 AM Apr 2025

Tariffs may have been a good idea [View all]

30 years ago, or better yet not pass NAFTA. But now that those international trade deals and the advent of advanced technological economic techniques, the day has long since passed to bring back now non-existent manufacturing jobs.

There may always be a place for limited, targeted tariffs, but Trump's madness to undo 30 years of trade policy in 3 months could cause a worldwide depression.

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