Andrew Coyne
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
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But for a while we're gonna have to put aside that dream and just try to hunker down and persevere.
What we should not be doing is
Making deals, making concessions.
To try to get a piece that isn't available.
Uh and that would th those kinds of concessions would tend to get locked in and become a permanent thing.
Maybe we can persuade a successor administration.
Uh to go back to tariff free trade.
I don't think that's an illusion.
I don't think that's impossible.
There's lots of people in the United States in in both parties who are still free traders.
There's lots of protectionists around as well.
But that's a better thing to place our bets on in terms of a long-term outcome than locking ourselves into and accepting and ratifying uh um 25% tariffs.
inside a free trade agreement.
It just makes a mockery of of makes makes you wonder why we even bothered to sign Cosmo.
Sometimes.
I love the old line, two wrongs don't make a right, but three breaks a tie.
Um look, it it's it's it's not an ideal s uh um um remedy.
It's not one I would usually prescribe.
Usually I would say, look, if if they're bent on uh taxing their consumers, that's no reason we should tax our consumers.
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