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The economists tried to warn us. From the beginning, trade policy experts cautioned that tariffs would raise consumer prices and wouldn’t create the American manufacturing renaissance that the Trump administration promised. One thing that I wrote about tariffs back in February keeps popping in my head: When I asked economists and policy folks what high tariffs would actu …
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