> Trade policies are considered good if they're good for the economy and bad if they're bad for the economy.
are you talking about increasing GDP or some other meaning of "good for the economy"?
what i see is people talking about tariffs as good for a certain sector's workers or bad for consumers or safeguarding US military capabilities or something like that.
I don't mean anything specific by "good for the economy", I just mean good for general prosperity, on average. (I realize that trade policies are often have winners and losers, and reasonable people will disagree on what's "good for the economy" depending on what part of the economy they care most about.)
are you talking about increasing GDP or some other meaning of "good for the economy"?
what i see is people talking about tariffs as good for a certain sector's workers or bad for consumers or safeguarding US military capabilities or something like that.