[Vaquero]

As long as it’s an even playing field we don’t need tariffs. It is not an even playing field

[Cowboy Bob]

We know how that ended. It took World War II to get us out of the worst depression our nation ever faced.

Of course, FDR helped to extend the depression, just as Obama helped extend the "Great Recession."

BTW, What kind of educational background does this guy have?

[neverevergiveup]

“Today, Peter Navarro, who serves in the White House, is the only economist I know of who thinks tariffs are a good idea.”

Yeah, well, not too impressed with a lot of other economists - e.g. Krugman. There's a very big difference between theoretical economists and those doing business in the real world.

[HighSierra5]

These people are so tiring. Smoot Hawley. Smoot Hawley. That’s all we hear. This ain’t the 1930s. Its 2019. And by the way it’s TWENTY NINETEEN. Not Two thousand nineteen. You don’t hear people say back in one thousand nine hundred seventeen that we got into WW1. Do you? Get with the program.

[stanne]

Shapiro holds a law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is a graduate of the Binghamton University, where he majored in economics and psychology.[citation needed]

BU Econ. AOCs alma mater

[Moonman62]

Trump isn’t an isolationist.

This is a crap article based on a false premise.

[Theoria]

The Debt and Deficit is the problem. Throw in freetraitors and open border lovers.

[be-baw]

“The market is increasingly volatile.” What market is he talking about? It can’t be the stock market. Seems to me there is relatively little volatility. Maybe I’m missing something.

“Investors are running for cover.” Sure doesn’t seem that way.

“Consumers are beginning to feel the tariff bite” I’m not feeling any tariff bite, as far as I can tell.

“Aggressive trade wars are hastening the end of one of the strongest economies in U.S. history” Look outside. The sky is falling.

[seowulf]

Chicken Little is clucking the line he’s paid to cluck.

[Grampa Dave]

Another idiot with severe TDS syndrome who hates our President and Americans while pretending to be a conservative.

[DesertRhino]

The old smoot hawley fable

[rdcbn]

President Trump’s actions are trying to ensure that we even have an economic future

[Phil DiBasquette]

More Salem claptrap.
Why does this junk keep getting syndicated here?

[al_c]

You know the economy is doing well under republican leadership when the liberal media post scary stories about the economy.

[Reverend Wright]

Guys like Shapiro try to claim that tariffs caused the Depression.

Fact is, the Depression was well under way when they passed the tariffs.

And the big tariff increases by other countries was in the mid 1930s.

It’s more like the Depression caused the tariffs.

[Ullus]

Whenever you find two economists together, you find three conflicting views on the economy. Remember that economists told us that the stock market would crash if Trump were elected.

[FranklinsTower]

Why? Because we not only have global supply networks, but when we sell globally, countries - some of them our biggest customers - retaliate. In other words, Trumps policies threaten the special favors networks created by past horrible "free trade" deals.

[Retvet]

It doesn’t endanger our future. Only the elitist money hoarders. That under pay the working class. This is no less than slavery through controlled low wages.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

So it’s OK for China to have tariffs on our stuff but not OK for us to have tariffs on theirs?

FUAD.

[central_va]

Yes many a nation has became prosperous exporting high end manufacturing jobs and agricultural products. /SARC