Trump is returning to workplace with lots of the similar insurance policies that characterised his final time period. And for economists, nothing looms bigger than the prospect of great new tariffs. But are tariffs actually as harmful as feared? After all, the Biden administration saved most of it and the economic system remained sturdy. Today on the present we posed the query to Kimberly Clausing, a UCLA professor and former chief economist of the Biden administration’s Office of Fiscal Policy.
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