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8 connected korrents · 7 moments on record from 6 Apr 2025 to 7 Sept 2026. Nearly all of them are about tariffs and America .
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Rebuilding American manufacturing is a decades-long educational and cultural project, not something tariffs can do.
Holds MH Molson HartRead this korrent →
Tariffs are beside the point in the energy race with China; what is actually costing America is environmental regulation, and Texas is out-deploying California ten to one because of it.
Holds CH Casey Handmer
The 2018 tariffs moved production to Vietnam rather than back to the United States.
Holds MH Molson Hart
The American trade deficit is a macroeconomic fact, not a trade one: the US saves less than it invests, so no tariff can close it.
Holds KJ Keyu Jin
Tariffs will not fix what is wrong with global trade; they are a distortionary protectionist method and they will be bad for the country imposing them.
Holds KJ Keyu Jin
A country's large trade deficit in manufactured goods reduces its manufacturing employment below what it would be with balanced trade.
Holds PK Paul Krugman
Tariff revenue is real but far too small to make a dent in the American deficit.
Holds PK Paul Krugman
Tariffs on imported components and machinery hurt the American manufacturers they are supposed to help.
Holds MH Molson HartAV Austin Vernon
The 2025 American tariffs did not reduce the trade deficit they were imposed to reduce.
Holds PK Paul Krugman