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White House uses Hamilton economist’s paper to justify tariffs — but misses his point ‘trade wars are bad’

White House uses Hamilton economist’s paper to justify tariffs — but misses his point ‘trade wars are bad’

Both times, the Trump administration got it wrong, says Pau S. Pujolas, an associate economics professor at McMaster University in Hamilton who wrote the 2024 paper "Trade deficits with trade wars."

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