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The evidence is mounting that tax incentives are better than tariffs as a way to protect and spur US industrial investment.
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Joe Biden has laid it on the line, asking voters to make a head-to-head comparison between him and Donald Trump. Who, the President asked, has been more successful at bringing manufacturing jobs back to America? Simply comparing new investment in factories under the two administrations gives the clear edge to Biden. Still, Trump could argue that Biden’s incentive programs are larger and enjoyed the backing of Congress, while he had to fight the free traders within his own Republican party.
A fairer comparison would be between Bidenomics as practiced and the more comprehensive tariff plan Trump says he would implement if he were to regain the White House than what he enacted during his first administration. Unfortunately for the former President, economic analysis still comes out against him. The broad tariffs envisioned by Trump simply don’t provide the same bang for the buck as Biden’s targeted incentives.
Mind you, this is Karl Smith, Bloomberg's resident "fresh water economist".
Trump was sold one his trade war by a very bad economist, and there was little if any support for his approach even from
conservative economists, with good reason.
Trade wars are a loser, as much of the world has recognized since 1936.
This happened because Trump doesn't understand economics.
President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are "straight up stupid," a top economist told CNBC on Friday.
Trump's tariffs announcement Thursday night has been broadly condemned by both sides of the U.S. political spectrum and the international community at large.
"This is just straight up stupid," Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institution for International Economics, said Friday. "This is fundamentally incompetent, corrupt or misguided."
Posen, who served at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the mid-1990s, currently sits on the panel of economic advisers to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
‘Straight up stupid,' 'incompetent' and 'misguided’: Economist Adam Posen rips Trump's tariffs
Why would anyone give him back the keys to the economy?
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
Joe Biden has laid it on the line, asking voters to make a head-to-head comparison between him and Donald Trump. Who, the President asked, has been more successful at bringing manufacturing jobs back to America? Simply comparing new investment in factories under the two administrations gives the clear edge to Biden. Still, Trump could argue that Biden’s incentive programs are larger and enjoyed the backing of Congress, while he had to fight the free traders within his own Republican party.
A fairer comparison would be between Bidenomics as practiced and the more comprehensive tariff plan Trump says he would implement if he were to regain the White House than what he enacted during his first administration. Unfortunately for the former President, economic analysis still comes out against him. The broad tariffs envisioned by Trump simply don’t provide the same bang for the buck as Biden’s targeted incentives.
Mind you, this is Karl Smith, Bloomberg's resident "fresh water economist".
Trump was sold one his trade war by a very bad economist, and there was little if any support for his approach even from
conservative economists, with good reason.
Trade wars are a loser, as much of the world has recognized since 1936.
This happened because Trump doesn't understand economics.
President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports are "straight up stupid," a top economist told CNBC on Friday.
Trump's tariffs announcement Thursday night has been broadly condemned by both sides of the U.S. political spectrum and the international community at large.
"This is just straight up stupid," Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institution for International Economics, said Friday. "This is fundamentally incompetent, corrupt or misguided."
Posen, who served at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the mid-1990s, currently sits on the panel of economic advisers to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office.
‘Straight up stupid,' 'incompetent' and 'misguided’: Economist Adam Posen rips Trump's tariffs
Why would anyone give him back the keys to the economy?