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8 months agoTo be fair, we mostly have examples of how free trade reduces prices. But this reduction in prices usually wasn’t instantaneous and perceivable by ordinary folks. Because corporations wouldn’t hand out the savings to consumers until the very slow market force of competition forced them to. Tariffs will make everything more expensive and even if they are eventually culled, stuff will not become suddenly cheap again.
I don’t really understand the obsession the Epstein files. We all know what’s in there, and we all know what’s going to happen if they get released, that is: nothing will happen.