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Do Trump’s gut feelings beat the tenets of the left?

3 April 2018

4:50 PM

3 April 2018

4:50 PM

One has to admire Donald Trump’s gall. Against the best economic advice that the experts could give, he went and raised tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Despite the pundits’ caution that a trade war would follow which would severely damage the United States economy and plunge the world into recession, some of the American steel plants that had been closed since the days of Bill Clinton have now re-opened and employees have been called back to work.

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