The Trump White House Cited My Research to Justify Tariffs. They Got It All Wrong. Posted by usrname42
NancyBelowSea on April 7, 2025 1:43 pm Is this guy stupid or something? He thinks the Trump admin read his stuff and just applied it wrong? No. They didn’t get it wrong. They wanted tariffs and just googled random research until they found something vaguely justifying their tariffs.
mulemoment on April 7, 2025 1:49 pm He’s right, but I don’t see the author, Brent Neiman, in the [list of papers](https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations) that the admin cited. However all of the authors [who were cited](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-white-house-cited-these-economists-to-justify-its-tariffs-they-arent-thrilled-193615537.html) criticized this too, so point still made.
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Is this guy stupid or something? He thinks the Trump admin read his stuff and just applied it wrong? No.
They didn’t get it wrong. They wanted tariffs and just googled random research until they found something vaguely justifying their tariffs.
He’s right, but I don’t see the author, Brent Neiman, in the [list of papers](https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations) that the admin cited.
However all of the authors [who were cited](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-white-house-cited-these-economists-to-justify-its-tariffs-they-arent-thrilled-193615537.html) criticized this too, so point still made.