Adam Posen
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1,220 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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They're regressive.
They primarily either hurt small business on the corporate side or they hurt lower income people on the household side.
And they tend to lead to corruption.
even if not literal bribes, but distortions of, hey, Apple showed up in the president's office with a gold phone.
And what do you know?
They got an exception to the terror.
You know, it tend to lead to stuff like that in a way that most things do.
Tariffs are good for two things, right?
If there is a very specific
Industry.
In a very specific
Bargaining situation.
Not against the whole world in general, all at the same time.
One specific country with whom you can bargain and you can get other people to join you in the tariffs.
So it's effectively a form of economic sanction.
That can work.
The other thing is if you are an underdeveloped country with no state capacity.
like the US in eighteen twenty, or a number of South Asian and Sub Saharan African and Central American countries today, even there not that many.
Tariffs are a way to collect necessary revenues because you can literally set up guards at the border and make sure somebody gets the money.
Whereas other more less intrusive, less regressive, more efficient forms of taxation are harder to collect if you don't have a good state capacity.
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