Paul Krugman making the point here that the tariffs Trump says other countries are imposing on the US are entirely fabricated. Does anyone know how he calculated these? Or if anyone checked his math? https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-goes-crazy-on-trade
Trump Goes Crazy on TradePaul Krugman
@SeanCasten Paul Krugman is claiming that Trump's numbers are fabricated, not asserting his own numbers. He is also suggesting that Trump's numbers _could_ be a from counting a VAT type take as a tariff, which it is not as VAT applies to all produces equally.