Wall Street Journal Poses 1 Awkward Question About A Signature Trump Policy
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The president's "biggest successes have come despite" and not because of it.
The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday questioned the purpose of Donald Trump’s tariffs.
The newspaper highlighted the upheaval and toll they have placed on the United States — from diplomatic fallout to Americans having to pay higher prices for imported goods ― and asked: “All of this for what benefit?”
Read the full editorial on The Wall Street Journal.
The Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper’s conservative editorial board acknowledged, in its latest in a long line of essays taking aim at the president’s signature economic policy, that the stock market is rising, as Trump has boasted about.
But it also noted that “it tends to rise when Mr. Trump dials back a tariff threat, and fall when he issues a new one,” and concluded that tariffs are, in fact, broadly “a market loser.”
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