Final Thoughts

Every time I hope to stop writing about tariffs, they pull me back in. Tariffs to the right of me. Tariffs to the left of me. Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat only to find myself covered in blanket tariffs. And when I look around the world at many of the US’ trading partners, the feelings are reciprocal.  

From mills, to traders, to manufacturers, these tariffs are anything but an intellectual exercise relegated to lectures from the economist’s blackboard. Or whiteboard. Or whatever electronic gizmo is doing the duty once held by slate and chalk.