
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