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https://prospect.org/2026/01/14/trump-tariffs-china-tax-economy-inflation/

This is quite disappointing from Robert Kuttner (and The American Prospect) which claims to have the backs of the poor. The #trade did help pull 100s of millions of people from out of abject poverty in #China and elsewhere. #tariffs are literally turning the clock back on the poor outside the #US Why do such experts end up being such petty nationalists? Why can't they be... well... just human?