Originally Posted by logtroll
Originally Posted by Senator Hatrack
The lesson of the Smoot Hawley Act and the Great Depression it helped cause should teach us about the dangers of government intervention in the market.
I agree that there should have been a lesson learned about tariffs (but Trump is too stupid to learn any lessons).
Stupid or a genius? He is stupid if the negotiations he has started don't improve our trade. A genius if they do.

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I don't agree with your vague generalization, extracted from this one example, that all government intervention in "the markets" is bad.
I did not say that all government interventions are bad. But to try to list those that are good or those that are bad would take too much time. I have a radical suggestion, that will never be implemented, get rid of every government intervention. In a short period of time the good and bad ones will sort themselves out.

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