“....the article is ill conceived and badly written; not to mention the fact that we have been tariffed to death since the end of WW II, with NO push back at all from us.”
I keep hearing and reading emotional statements like yours without anything to back them up. If you truly believe the article is “ill conceived,” are you disputing that the new tariffs are based on anything more substantial than trade deficits? Because trade deficits aren’t necessarily the result of unfair restrictions on US exports.
First of all, I, as well as many others here, who disagree with all of this FEAR PORN/outright drivel, know and understand FACTUAL financial history! We also understand Trump's methods of deal making.
I very easily can give you a written lecture on the history of American tariffs, depressions, bank closures, recessions, strikes, market fluctuations since Colonial times to the present. But I doubt that you'd even bother reading 1% of it.
Your reply to me, makes it very clear that you don't know what you're talking about AND that it is YOU who are EMOTIONAL!