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“Unexpectedly”? Put down the pipe, FT.
"We know he said he was imposing tariffs but we didn't think he was actually going to do it" is a line I've been reading in so many finance journals and hearing on briefings over the last month.
"He always does the dumbest thing, but I didn't think he would do this dumbest thing."
I love how he thinks this stuff just happens by magical command and then we have nothing in place to do it so he suspends it for a month and china does it right away.
damn, is he "hurting the wrong people" again? who would've thunk