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  • Is This Trump’s Mitterrand Moment?

    04/24/2025 5:27:36 AM PDT · by karpov · 43 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 23, 2025 | WSJ Editorial Board
    President Trump continues to walk back his original tariff assault, and markets are pleased. They rose again Wednesday after Mr. Trump said he won’t fire the Federal Reserve Chairman and is likely to retreat from his highest China tariffs. Is this Mr. Trump’s François Mitterrand moment? Readers of a certain age will recall how the French Socialist President swept into power in 1981 promising a far left agenda of government control over the private economy. The market reaction was brutal. Within a year he had put socialism on pause and by 1983 he had abandoned most of it. He went...
  • The Lessons of Trump’s Tariff Exemptions

    04/13/2025 1:52:03 PM PDT · by karpov · 17 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | April 13, 2025 | WSJ Editorial Board
    Tariffs are advertised in the name of helping American workers, but what do you know? They turn out to favor the powerful and politically connected. That’s the main message of President Trump’s decision to exempt smartphones and assorted electronic goods from his most onerous tariffs. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) late Friday issued a notice listing products that will be exempt from Mr. Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs that can run as high as 145% on goods from China. The exclusions apply to smartphones, laptop computers, hard drives, computer processors, servers, memory chips, semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and other electronics. The CBP...