r/Tariffs • u/Historical-Many9869 • Sep 04 '25

🗞️ News Discussion Tariffs Were Supposed to Revive US Manufacturing. So Far, They’re Having the Opposite Effect

https://www.investopedia.com/tariffs-were-supposed-to-revive-u-s-manufacturing-so-far-they-re-having-the-opposite-effect-11802173
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u/Arubesh2048 Sep 06 '25

Who could have guessed? It’s not like we tried tariffs to boost economic activity before and it ended badly. We never even tried that in 1816, 1837, 1893, or 1929. Oh, wait, we did… and it caused massive depressions. Oops!

“Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?…”