Politicians are gaining energy. The current war on international trade by the US government provides many examples.
President Donald Trump said the high tariffs I thrust into imports were temporary and permanent (“Does Trump’s tariffs be negotiable or stay here? Amid the confusion, he says it’ll be both,” ABC News, April 7, 2025).
In a mixed message from Top White House officials, President Donald Trump was asked directly Monday whether his sweeping tariffs were unnegotiable or if he would stay here.
“They could be true,” Trump replied. “There may be permanent tariffs and there are things that need to be beyond the tariffs, so there are negotiations too.”
He also said (“Call Trump’s Bluffs by “mutual” tariffs,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2025):
With so many research coming to the US and the huge amount of money investing, my politics will never change.
I seem to have asserted that he was waiting for a call from “China” to soften him and respect him, and that his administration is already negotiating with BYM (“Dow Jones jumps 1,300 points on Trump’s tariff news. This week, at 9:08am on Monday, he wrote on social media.
China also wants to make a bad deal, but they don’t know how to start it. We are waiting for their phone.
But at 11:14am on the same Monday, he also wrote:
If China does not withdraw 34% [retaliatory tariff] Increase… All consultations with China and Eschul meetings with us will be fired!
A tongue slip, a heart slip, or a story about an innocent baby? Perhaps the boys are just an example of continuous consistency.
A is non-A, freedom is unbelief, liberation is submission, war is peace, and temperature is permanent. I know that this is false or, more precisely, that ideas cannot be considered and discussed rationally without accepting the law of contradiction of classical logic. There are other ways to approach reality such as poetry, music, and perhaps religion, but they cannot serve as the basis for political philosophy and government policy.
What we see in America now is the policy of the completely opposite, economically illiterate, and appropriately clown-like protectionist. “The trade war is good and you can win,” Trump tweeted on March 2, 2018. On January 31st of this year, he declared, “Taxes will make us very rich and strong.”
On April 2nd, “Liberation Day” Trump announced so-called “reciprocal” tariffs. This is simply assumed by “tariffs” applied by foreign states, calculated using a formula that does not have a basis for economic analysis and proportional to the US trade deficit. The fraudulent ads were as far as the National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, published annually by the USTR and WHUE 2025 version, was submitted to Congress a few days ago, as long as the President is wielding thick reports. The President’s Theatre states that the 400-page report is the basis of the “mutual tariff” formula, but it simply provides it to a qualitative list of tariffs and (estimated) non-tariff barriers in around 50 countries. The April 2 declaration designated exports from nearly 180 countries that were imposed on “mutual tariffs.” (The EU counts one country.) An explanation sheet for the “mutual tariff” calculation was not provided by the White House as a two-page “executive summary” of documents that are probable and intractable. Some academic quotes from the “Executive Summary” do not provide justification for the formula. Also, many authors of papers made the exception to how their work was used. And so on.
The arbitrary, if not absurd, decision of “mutual tariffs” is shown by St. Pierre and Michelon. This is part of the Naisse in the French or European Customs Zone and exports nothing to the US. However, it was placed in the high-largest “mutual tariffs”, or 50% category. Another non-state that abuses the United States is Heard Island and the MacDonald Islands, the territory of Australian, primarily penguin animals. “I don’t know what they did to Trump,” the Australian trade miner said of the animals. (“Tax Whodunit: April 4, 2025, Wall Street Journal, for the entire list of “Trump’s Tariffs” and for the Wall Street Journal, see Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2025.
It’s no wonder why MSAY’s professional economists (and Econlog bloggers including Jon Murphy) and economic journalists have discovered that the entire movement is ridiculous.
A few days later, Trump strengthened his trade war with China. This primarily means a match against the United States, which you pay when you pay tariffs. In other words, he partially retreated the possibility of a serious economic crash, a dollar decline, and a high interference rate (“American financial system is on the brink,” Economist, April 10, 2025). However, this pause itself can be paused or canceled at the pleasure of one man. And why does Trump not impose a universal tariff of 254% if tariffs and personal power are very good (is a formula without sub-un-mannovation likely added to produce politically sensitive submissions on him?
One headline for the April 10th Economist is read along with its subtitles.
Trump’s inconsistent trade policy will cause lasting damage
Even after his backtracking, the president has done a deep harm to the world economy
OW citizens and residents need to significantly limit trade freedoms and run propaganda machines to push forward with public-related lies. We can see it as the premise of a utopian mix of Orwell’s vicious ruler and addictive, smiling masses. The observation that the previous government has turned its own stones over the construction of the Leviathan palace is not only correct, but it is useful for projects in the constitutional political and economics. But it also risks becoming a partisan fun that underestimates the current dangers.
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