this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
90 points (98.9% liked)

New York Times gift articles

1641 readers
101 users here now

Share your New York Times gift articles links here.

Rules:

Info:

Tip:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SteveCC@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"...The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its methodology and cited an academic paper produced by four economists, including me, seemingly in support of their numbers. But they got it wrong. Very wrong. I disagree fundamentally with the government’s trade policy and approach. But even taking it at face value, our findings suggest the calculated tariffs should be dramatically smaller — perhaps one-fourth as large..."

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what are these? Tariffs for ants?

[–] ghost9@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

They already tariffed penguins. Ants are next.

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"If 1/4 tariff is good, 4x as much tariff must be 4x as good!"