Trump's tariff pause: Letters to the Editor -- April 11, 2025

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump has the ability to make his inner circle very rich by his actions.
70% : Our nation is truly lucky to have Trump as our president.
55% : Trump proves again he understands the art of the deal.
53% : One of the key platforms Trump campaigned on in 2024 was increased tariffs.
45% : On Tuesday, the stock market rallied -- until Trump opened his mouth and announced a 100% tariff on China (although who knows how high the tariffs will be the time this is published).
41% : This is a good way to fix the imbalances in trade agreements that have existed for decades.
40% : When Trump turns from "My policies will never change" to "You have to have flexibility" in a week, does that make him more like the (fictional!) government in George Orwell's novel "1984" declaring that "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery" and "Ignorance is strength"?
33% : President Trump did a turnaround, and the stock market rebounded.
33% : Every time Trump says "tariffs," the stock market takes a nose dive.
23% : Trump seems oblivious to John Nash's game theory, for which he won the Nobel Prize in economics.
19% : It's like what President Trump said: "Someone had to do it" (" 'Yippy' . . .

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