Liberation Day. April 2, 2025. The Trump administration announced reciprocal tariffs on nearly ninety nations across the globe. The stock market tanked, impacted nations retaliated, businesses canceled their guidance to Wall Street, and the mainstream media began to try to talk the nation into a recession. Many wondered just what Trump was trying to achieve. …
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Liberation Day. April 2, 2025. The Trump administration announced reciprocal tariffs on nearly ninety nations across the globe. The stock market tanked, impacted nations retaliated, businesses canceled their guidance to Wall Street, and the mainstream media began to try to talk the nation into a recession.
ManywonderedjustwhatTrumpwastryingtoachieve.Now,tobefair,theTrumpadministrationsentmixedmessagesaboutthepurposeofthetariffs.SomesaidthetariffsweredesignedtodrivemanufacturinginvestmentintheUnitedStates,indicatingthatthetariffswereheretostay.OthersclaimedthatthetariffswereameanstoforceothernationstodroptheirtariffsontheUnitedStates.WhileotherssaidthatthetariffsweremeanttoforceallnationstodroptariffsonAmericangoods,r
