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WSJ: Tariffs Won’t Bring a Manufacturing Boom
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The Trump administration has instituted a variety of tariffs in just its first few months. To hear the White House explain it, these trade barriers will increase domestic manufacturing. But does this rationale make any sense?
CEPR Senior Economist Dean Baker co-authored an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal with Jared Bernstein, a a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities who served as chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 2023 to 2025.
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