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One of those economists, Gary Cohn, was the chief architect of Trump's tax reform program, which resulted in several large companies immediately announcing that they would be bringing billions of dollars back from overseas to reinvest here. He is leaving the adminstration because he vehemently opposes Trump's decision on tariffs. Three of Trump's own top economic advisers from his campaign co-authored the article that I posted in the OP.

Milton Friedman, Reagan's top economic adviser, was strongly opposed to tariffs. Reagan closely followed his advice and did a pretty good job of pulling the country's economy out of the ditch into which Carter, Ford, Nixon, and Johnson had driven it.

Herbert Hoover tried imposing high tariffs, despite his personal opposition to the, when he signed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs into law. The result helped get FDR into the Oval Office.

Not everybody who disagrees with some of Trump's policies is necessarily wrong. Trump is a successful businesssman, but he has gone bankrupt more than once. More successful businesssman than him - not all - disagree with him on tariffs.

I like all three of those guys, but like Cohn, they are globalists. They actually play the market crash card in that opinion piece, which always makes me skeptical to say the least. Market up nicely yesterday and today. I will pay more attention to them when they pen an opinion piece on what solutions they have for the trade deficit. I doubt it's coming. Their opinions are 90+% based on what they believe will bring the highest stock prices. You can side with them, I have faith in Trump. It's nothing personal Hoot, you are a smart guy. Lots of globalists are smart guys, they figure there is more money in it for them.