{"id":17111,"date":"2025-04-03T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17111"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T20:21:10","slug":"this-could-get-much-uglier-the-fatal-flaw-in-trumps-trade-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=17111","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This Could Get Much Uglier\u2019: The Fatal Flaw in Trump\u2019s Trade War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariff regime<\/a> will completely transform America\u2019s economic relationship with the rest of the world, all in the name of revitalizing domestic manufacturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, many businesses won\u2019t be rushing to shift their supply chains to U.S. shores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all the detail in Trump\u2019s Wednesday announcement<\/a>, his endgame is still shrouded in confusion. That\u2019s lethal for long-term investment, making confident planning all but impossible.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019ve asked multiple corporate executives in recent weeks whether companies are likely to start investing in manufacturing in the United States in response to Trump\u2019s policies, and the message has basically been: That\u2019s an unanswerable question right now. Because making those decisions requires understanding the relative costs of doing it versus not doing it, and Trump is far too unpredictable to allow for that kind of calculation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/04\/03\/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-confusion-00267945<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Donald Trump\u2019s sweeping tariff regime will completely transform America\u2019s economic relationship with the rest of the world, all in the name of revitalizing domestic manufacturing.
\nAnd yet, many businesses won\u2019t be rushing to shift their supply chains to U.S. shores.<\/p>\n

For all the detail in Trump\u2019s Wednesday announcement, his endgame is still shrouded in confusion. That\u2019s lethal for long-term investment, making confident planning all but impossible.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve asked multiple corporate executives in recent weeks whether companies are likely to start investing in manufacturing in the United States in response to Trump\u2019s policies, and the message has basically been: That\u2019s an unanswerable question right now. Because making those decisions requires understanding the relative costs of doing it versus not doing it, and Trump is far too unpredictable to allow for that kind of calculation.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/04\/03\/trump-tariffs-manufacturing-confusion-00267945<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,1349,217,272,355,314,226,227,170],"class_list":["post-17111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-economic-growth","tag-economics","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-trade","tag-trade-war","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17112,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17111\/revisions\/17112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}