Melinda Hightower
@mel_hightower
Detroit Native. Cornell ILR, Chicago Booth, and UVa Law. Former @NBLSA Chair. Do-gooder and smart aleck.
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08-03-2010 06:59:36
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Just figured out where these fake tariff rates come from. They didn't actually calculate tariff rates + non-tariff barriers, as they say they did. Instead, for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us. So we
It’s now clear that the Donald J. Trump Administration computed reciprocal tariffs without using tariff data. This is to economics what creationism is to biology, astrology is to astronomy, or RFK thought is to vaccine science. The Trump tariff policy makes little sense EVEN if