Letter from America: Eggs, tariffs, and Trumponomics
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Welcome to the United States of Whiplash
Dear friends across the pond,
Here in America, it seems we are once again trying to steer a cruise ship with a car horn. President Trump, back in office and back in form, is leading us into what he calls an “economic revival,” though to many of us, it’s felt more like economic roulette — with tariffs as the spinning wheel, and our wallets as the little white ball.
Let’s start with the tariffs. Or as I now like to call them: the cost of being patriotic. In theory, they’re meant to bring manufacturing back to American soil. And this is something I wholeheartedly support. Who wouldn’t want good jobs, locally made products, and a country less dependent on fragile overseas supply chains? (Ahem, remember the Ever Given?) But unfortunately, manufacturing isn’t a faucet you can just turn back on, as much as we might wish it were. Take this story, for example, about a company with the noble goa…