Why We Can't Have Nice Things

"There's nobody that says, wait, is this good for America? Is this good for the American consumer?"

"It's not easy to make one of these rules, but it's a thousand times harder to get rid of one."

"You need an argument for why this is good for society. That's important, but you also need money."

"It's just a very classic case of everything wrong with Washington."

The U.S. tariff code is "quite regressive and somewhat misogynist" because the most powerful lobbyist in Washington is muscle memory.

A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis.

A six-part podcast series on trade policy launching next week