Larry Summers: How to deal with Trump's tariff threat

Global Insider by POLITICO

Feb 6, 202525:29News & Politics

United States President Donald Trump has shown he means business when it comes to threatening a splurge of tariffs around the globe. Mexico and Canada agreed last-minute deals to temporarily avert tariffs, whereas China...

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