{"id":2635,"date":"2025-04-04T13:38:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T17:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:18:45","slug":"making-sense-of-the-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"Making Sense of the Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very logical piece. A simple argument backed with simple to understand explanations. Rare in a piece about economics. My Republican friends won&#8217;t read it, because it is from the &#8220;left-wing&#8221; <em>Atlantic<\/em> magazine. &#8220;Bias!&#8221; They will cry. Too bad. Trump voters are immune to logic because they <strong>believe<\/strong>. They have faith in their orange hero. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/world-economy-trapped-inside-donald-203355840.html\">There Is Only One Way to Make Sense of the Tariffs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nobody Knows Anything! This is an expression I have heard before from a former UK elected official who said of economic plans, &#8220;The truth is, politicians are usually making it up as they go. They don&#8217;t really know what will happen, no matter how much they say they do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-tariff-numbers-appear-calculated-183605650.html\">Trump\u2019s tariff numbers appear to have been calculated through a simple math formula, which works with every single country on the list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a moron. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a very logical piece. A simple argument backed with simple to understand explanations. Rare in a piece about economics. My Republican friends won&#8217;t read it, because it is from the &#8220;left-wing&#8221; Atlantic magazine. &#8220;Bias!&#8221; They will cry. Too &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2635\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-ethics-and-logic","category-politics-and-society"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2637,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}