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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Just how incompetent are these people?

This audition (nee "whitepaper") took it on faith that the 2018-2019 trade kerfuffle had some positive impacts, particularly for the treasury.

Meanwhile in reality...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%5Fadministration%5Ffarmer%5Fbailouts

And the paper seemingly ignored all employment impacts, while positing there wouldn't be any the second time around. Again:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93United%5FStates%5Ftrade%5Fwar#Job%5Flosses