The Case for Trump’s Tariffs

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has promised to usher in a “golden age of America.” What are the policies that will bring that about? From tariffs to tax cuts and cracking down on undocumented immigrants, his campaign pledged to pass over the elite and help working-class Americans. But what will Trump’s economic plans actually do?

FP’s Ravi Agrawal put these questions to Oren Cass, a leading scholar of the conservative economics of the “New Right.”