Trump is returning to workplace with most of the identical insurance policies that characterised his final time period. And for economists, none looms bigger than the prospect of great new tariffs. However are tariffs actually as harmful as feared? In any case, the Biden administration maintained most of them and the financial system has remained sturdy. Right now on the present, we put the query to Kimberly Clausing, a professor at UCLA, and previously lead economist within the Biden administration’s Workplace for Tax Coverage.
Soumaya Keynes writes a column every week for the Monetary Occasions. You’ll find it here
Subscribe to Soumaya’s present on Apple, Spotify, Pocket Casts or wherever you hear.
