Let\u2019s stop all the moaning about stock market crashes and soaring grocery prices. It\u2019s time to focus on the upsides!<\/p>\n
There\u2019s been a lot of doom-mongering about tariffs recently, hasn\u2019t there? Oh no, my life savings are going to get wiped out and I\u2019m never going to be able to retire! Oh no, grocery prices are going to triple! Oh no, it looks suspiciously as if Donald Trump has used ChatGPT to guide his fiscal policy and now we\u2019re going to see another Great Depression! Moan, moan, moan.<\/p>\n
While it might be true that much of these predictions are coming from highly credentialed economists and people who tend to know what they\u2019re talking about, I\u2019d like to remind you that there are two sides to every story<\/a> \u2013 and it\u2019s always worth looking at both of them.<\/em> You\u2019ve already heard from voices who reckon Trump\u2019s tariffs are misguided and dangerous. Now it\u2019s time to focus on the people who support the president\u2019s assessment that tariffs are a \u201cvery beautiful thing<\/a>\u201d that will usher in a new golden age.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s stop all the moaning about stock market crashes and soaring grocery prices. It\u2019s time to focus on the upsides! There\u2019s been a lot of doom-mongering about tariffs recently, hasn\u2019t there? Oh no, my life savings are going to get wiped out and I\u2019m never going to be able to retire! Oh no, grocery prices … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}