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What Happens Now?

April 10, 2025 at 6:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Felix Salmon: “We’ve never lived in a world of anything remotely close to 125 percent tariffs on one of our largest trading partners which means the effects of such things are incredibly hard to model.”

Bloomberg says these tariffs are now “beyond the level economists say would decimate bilateral trade.”

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