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Another trickle down economics lie (lemmy.world)

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[–] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m having a hard time finding old articles from Trump’s first presidency but I remember some analysis of the retaliatory tariffs China implemented seemed to target products produced in redder states and counties.

Edit: Finally found what I was looking for (I really dislike mobile versions of websites btw).

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/03/business/economy/china-tariff-retaliation.html

[–] RarePossum@programming.dev 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Soybeans are the big one they hit last time

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Sell them to me then. I need the soy milk for my coffee.

[–] stroz@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

I've got some bad news about that coffee...