Navarro is one of President Trump’s economic advisers and the one most closely associated with tariffs. Navarro, who has a Ph. D. in Economics from Harvard, holds extremely strong beliefs in the positive power of tariffs. What are the pro-tariff arguments? Let’s break them down.
We must reject theories that cannot be backed up by facts, but we must also reject facts that cannot be explained by any theory. It isn’t enough to just know the data; one must also know the why of the data. If one can’t figure out the why, then the data should be noted as a mere coincidence. Theory matters.
