Talk of the Town: Tariff winners and losers

Comments on “Tariff winners and losers,” (No Free Lunch by Cielito F. Habito, 4/8/25) via https://opinion.inquirer.net:

The US has been experiencing a long-term downtrend in economic growth since the 1960s and rising trade deficits since the 1970s. To keep spending more, it has been taking on more debt since the 1980s, and what allows it to do so is the assurance that the global economy will remain continuously dependent on the dollar for trade, i.e., a unipolar global economy.

Monk Manuel

Trump’s economics are only good for the super rich Americans, and with his tariffs, the American government will be making tons of money, not realizing that the consumers are the ones that ultimately paying the price. There is one thing that I am concerned about, and that is the stock market, diving down, as fast as it can be and if the situation we’re in now will end up as a great recession, there will be millions of poor and middle class Americans are affected

Lakay Emil