{"id":90527,"date":"2025-04-06T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90527"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:50:18","slug":"a-pragmatic-economist-reviews-the-contradictions-of-trumps-assault-on-world-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90527","title":{"rendered":"A pragmatic economist reviews the contradictions of Trump&#8217;s assault on world trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2025\/04\/06\/real-world-economics-the-flaws-in-trumps-liberation-reasoning-on-tariffs\/\">https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2025\/04\/06\/real-world-economics-the-flaws-in-trumps-liberation-reasoning-on-tariffs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While that tariff will hit every container of unprocessed products clearing customs, trucking, processing, warehousing and retailers\u2019 costs here need not change.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So a 10% tariff, even if borne entirely by Americans, may be significantly less than a 10% price increase. Good stuff in here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given years to adjust to the new tariffs, seasonal vegetable production and canning could again be important in these mid-Atlantic states, although many farm fields have become suburbs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2025\/04\/06\/real-world-economics-the-flaws-in-trumps-liberation-reasoning-on-tariffs\/ &#8220;While that tariff will hit every container of unprocessed products clearing customs, trucking, processing, warehousing and retailers\u2019 costs here need not change.&#8221; So a 10% tariff, even if borne entirely by Americans, may be significantly less than a 10% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=90527\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-90527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90528,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90527\/revisions\/90528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}