# Yours truly on the Trump tariffs at The Free Press - Marginal REVOLUTION

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## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words)

"This is perhaps the worst economic own goal I have seen in my lifetime." That seems like a great way to describe these new tariffs. I’m constantly reminded of the fact that tariffs are also very corruption friendly because they can be so precisely carved around in return for — who knows what.

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