Andrew Ross Sorkin
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Totally.
I mean, so that's interesting, because I don't know if that's about being an optimist or not.
You know, I go back and think about 1930, Smoot-Hawley tariffs ended up a year later, you had global trade fallen by something like 60%.
So
It was bad.
I think in this case you had to believe – what people always say about this president, do you believe him literally or figuratively?
And so when I think the – people today go, oh, there were some people with their hair on fire in –
in April and they shouldn't have had their hand fire.
Well, the reason why people maybe have looked wrong, by the way, including myself to some degree at some point, was when those numbers, those first numbers came out, that was pretty aggressive.
And if you believe that that was what was going to be the situation and you didn't believe they were going to come down materially, you know, the outcome, but the outcome is different now because those numbers did come down.
See, exactly.
You're not just on YouTube.
You're in TikTok and the Gram.
Come on.
I know what's going on here.
Exactly.
You got to get your information from a real place.
The boo-boos, the love of the boo-boo, yeah.
It does feel like it's getting crazy.
I worry about it to some degree.