As virtually the entire country — not the least of which are the social media keyboard jockeys — continues to follow the latest White House developments and stock market reactions to President Donald Trump’s currently-fluid “reciprocal tariffs” policy on products imported to the U.S. from much of the world, a noted former economic advisor to President Ronald has explained how Trump can create a “win-win” exit strategy.
That is, as author and economist Arthur Laffer explained during an interview on Fox Business’ “Varney & Co.,” that Trump’s initial plan — to use tariffs solely as leverage for negotiating fairer trade relationships all around — was effectively an exit strategy from the start.
Laffer began (emphasis, mine):
The win-win strategy is Trump is just phenomenal at negotiating, and … what he says is extremely true: these people have…