This is why so many in the administration have tried to assure us that all this tariff business is just negotiating. They believe in free trade; they just want it to be fairer, and they believe these tactics will help make that happen. I have doubts about this strategy, but I’m pulling for them to work because that would be a better world. I don’t understand people who route against their country.
The slowdown in the economy has been driven by business investment, or the lack thereof, and the slowdown in business investment has been driven by uncertainty in international trade. The stock market seems to understand that, even if many who pontificate about the market do not.
