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The Mouth That Roared — a/k/a the putative president of the United States — announced that he had a brain fart in the middle of the night and decided to put tariffs of 25% on all aluminum and steel imported into the US. The purpose of those tariffs, ostensibly, is to protect American aluminum and steel producers, but Houston, we have a problem. Thanks to 50 years of globalization, when it was considered smart business to offshore all manufacturing, the US aluminum and steel industries are a hollow shell of what they once were. In the 60s, the night sky over Pittsburgh was red from the glow of the furnaces in the steel mills. Today, most of the steel America uses is made somewhere else.
It’s all well and good to promote domestic industries. You can call it a matter of national…
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