This lends itself to your thread about what we think we know, does it not? I don't know either. Investors who bet on things with money don't like trade wars, at all. When a group bets with their own money, they might be right. Some.
I suppose.
Seems like he used them the first time to get Canada and Mexico to say what he wanted them to say, and when they did, he paused them for 30 days.
Not sure what they need to say, or more likely do, now, in order to pause them again.
But there is always the chance that Trump just loves tariffs and wants to use them as more than a bargaining tool. Some conservative pundits have opined that, anyway.
If it hurts the economy, then like I was telling SFBadger a while back, the Democratic party-in-shambles, doesn't necessarily need to answer the questions of their directionless, rudderless, political outfit. Republicans will get hammered in the mid-terms, and any would-be presidential successor possibly would get hammered in 2028.
Or it might not matter for mid-terms. I've seen it said that usually in the conditions we find ourselves in now, the party not in power in the executive branch will take the congressional mid-terms. I don't know if that's true, but it sounds about right. People are going to be unsatisfied enough with something by then and do some retaliatory voting amongst the small % of people who actually swing their votes. So maybe it doesn't matter if the economy improves, stays the same, or declines.
