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  • Trump overturned decades of US trade policy in 2025. See the impact of his tariffs, in four charts

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    Since returning to the White House in January, President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce and strained the budgets of consumers and businesses worldwide. They have also raised tens of billions of dollars for the U.S. Treasury. Trump has argued that his steep new import taxes are necessary to bring back wealth that was “stolen” from the U.S. He says they will narrow America’s decades-old trade deficit and bring manufacturing ... (full story)

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Dec 27, 2025 1:20pm
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In real life, management matters. If the company you work for has bad management, the company will do poorly despite a solid economy. The opposite is true regardless of excuses. Many, many corporate examples come to mind.

"President Donald Trump has overturned decades of U.S. trade policy — building a wall of tariffs around what used to be a wide open economy. His double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country have disrupted global commerce"

Let's do an apples to apples comparison between Biden and Trump, year ONE, on this statement.

According to this article, Trump has done a serious disruption to the economy and global commerce. But when I go to the store, the only products missing are...nothing. There's been no visible disruption.

Now, let's do Biden. There was a plethora of products missing from the shelves (and we won't address the toilet paper scare that firmly put bidets in the homes of millions) in every store. Your counter argument will be Covid but even that was lame. A complete mismanagement of supply lines was shown as incompetent as the troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. And before you attempt to defend the policies of the Covid regime, remember this now famous meme, "Imagine a vaccine so safe you have to be threatened to take it for a disease so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it".
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