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Trump's Tariffs and Its Geoeconomic Implications w/ Karthik Sankaran
On this edition of Parallax Views, the Quincy Institute's Karthik Sankaran—writer, analyst, and longtime observer of global macroeconomic trends—joins the program to unpack the Trump administration’s sweeping new tariff policy. Billed as a "reciprocal tariff" strategy, the move abandons long-held trade norms like Most Favored Nation (MFN) status in favor of a confrontational approach that targets countries based on bilateral trade deficits with the U.S.
We'll end begin by discussing the logic and methodology that Karthik believes are driving the Trump tariff policies. We'll also delve into…
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