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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Trump’s Authoritarian War on Trade
Description: https://youtu.be/vFaDm6eo-mk
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In this episode of The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer examine the Trump administration’s recent tariff policy and the legal, economic, and political disruptions they create.
Among the topics covered:
Why tariffs are not a proper foreign policy instrument to deter the threat from China;
Why all justifications for tariffs are arbitrary and collectivistic in nature;
How the obsession with trade deficits reveals outright ignorance of economic principles;
How legal ambiguity has enabled the executive to wield authoritarian power;
How Trump’s whim-driven rule is pushing the country towa...