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"The 2025 US tariffs are an own goal"

Without an opinion on the actual claim here (although I'm skeptical of a claim of 96%, given the relatively moderate inflation in the US in 2025), I think this quote by itself (first bullet point of the abstract) should disqualify this as a serious analysis - no academic paper uses this language, only biased think tanks, and the fact that it's a German think tank doesn't change that.





It’s a country that plays football, so I’d account for the potential of it being a common turn of phrase before dismissing the entire report.

It's not meant to be an academic paper.

Comments from throwaway accounts carry the same weight as AI slop.



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