What is the President's Policy, on Tariffs

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Sane-Washing Trump's Tariffs: The "Master" Plan Doesn't Make Sense & Isn't Being Followed - CleanTechnica

Behind Trump’s tariffs and fossil push is economist Stephen Miran, whose plan for trade, debt, and the Fed collapses under its own contradictions.

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The president's policy on tariffs includes the ideas of Miran. And, they
include all sorts of internal contradictions.

"The bigger danger here isn’t just that Miran’s ideas are riddled with internal contradictions. It’s that they’re being taken seriously by people who should know better. Because he’s articulate, credentialed, and able to speak in full sentences, Miran lends intellectual legitimacy to a deeply unserious agenda. He’s the velvet glove on the iron fist of economic nationalism. But when you peel back the layers, what you find is a worldview that treats trade as zero-sum, debt as someone else’s problem, the climate as a lost cause, and the central bank as a political pawn. This isn’t a blueprint for 21st-century leadership. It’s a ransom note to the future, written in the language of policy white papers.

In the end, what Stephen Miran represents is not a coherent alternative to the global economic consensus, but a cleverly packaged rejection of it. His ideas are less about solving problems than about reasserting American dominance through brute force and clever finance tricks. They offer the illusion of strategy while chasing mutually exclusive goals. They trade long-term sustainability for short-term leverage. And in the realm of clean energy and climate, they offer nothing at all. A clean economy can’t be built on rage, regress, and ransom demands to trading partners. It requires evidence, engineering, and actual solutions. Miran offers none."