I like the analogy.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate though to compare what is happening to hitting a hand with an assortment of different things interspersed with some healing and then afterwards trying to say which thing did which damage?
Just to be clear I’m not trying to take the position that the tariffs are a good thing. But what examples do we have where an economy as big as the US imposed wide ranging tariffs on its trading partners? I just don’t think it stands to reason to say “look, Iran has 12% tariffs, if we have 12% as well our economy will be like theirs”.
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