“Trump is bringing jobs back to the US with Tariffs,” said James Benson Jr., a retired Michigan autoworker, whom Trump paraded out to the media on April 2 to support his so-called ‘Liberation Day’ announcement. As the token working-class supporter, used for a visual image in a press conference, Mr. Benson is unfortunately misinformed in […]
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Trump tariff announcement echoes 1930s US trade policy
The most bizarre part of U.S. president Donald Trump’s April 2 ‘Liberation Day’ speech was when he claimed that the Great Depression, which endured from 1929 until the beginning of the Second World War, would not have happened if the American government had retained tariffs on imported goods, and not introduced an income tax. What? […]