What Brad DeLong thinks about tariffs
Economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury. Author of Slouching Towards Utopia and writer of the Grasping Reality newsletter.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Brad DeLong has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsVery real long-run damage comes from policy chaos in the form of random destructive tariffs, attacks on Fed independence, and an immigration crackdown that shrinks the labor force; all those are choices that they genuinely will take years to undo and neutralize
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