The White House cited these economists to justify its tariffs. They aren't thrilled.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The emails started hitting Anson Soderbery’s inbox at about 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday night. An economist at Purdue University, friends and acquaintances were reaching out to let him know that the Trump administration had just cited one of his papers as grounds for the steep tariff rates it would impose on America’s trade partners, which the president had unveiled on giant poster boards during a Rose Garden speech hours earlier.

A few of the notes jokingly congratulated him. But how did he really feel? “Confused,” Soderbery told Yahoo Finance. After all, he said, his study had been written to discourage exactly the kinds of policies Trump was rolling out. Certainly, nobody from the administration had consulted with him.

“I don’t want it to turn into infamy,” Soderbery added, laughing.

Soderbery isn’t the only economist with qualms about how their work was used as part of the White House tariff push. And while the complaints of a few academics might not seem significant compared to, say, the stock market’s panicked stampede this week, they do raise questions about the rigor that went into planning America’s most sweeping import taxes in over a century.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-white-house-cited-these-economists-to-justify-its-tariffs-they-arent-thrilled-193615537.html

[Lovie777]

1. WH and corpotrate media spout it............

but conumers will feel, and they are feeling it.

I kept hearing that Democrats were out of touch, no they were not, and tried to reply the warm