For the advantages and disadvantages of prices

The price could be the “most beautiful word” to Donald Trump, but for economists, it tends to cause a completely different reaction.

Most are “generally skeptical” pricesaid NBC News“By considering them as a predominantly ineffective means for governments to collect funds and promote prosperity”.

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“Long-standing concern” concerning the loss of manufacturing jobs for countries with lower labor costs has been a main engine of the anti-worldization movement in the developed world, BBC said. Trump has promised that his prices will mean that “American workers will no longer be worried about losing your job against foreign nations, but foreign countries will be worried about losing their jobs against America”.

The use of prices as a “negotiation tool” with other countries “may well be their main function in Mr. Trump’s hands,” said Conway. Take the recent 25% of samples imposed on Mexican and Canadian productswhich aim to force the two governments to stop the flow of illegal immigrants And the supply of fentanyl in the United States. Trump has already managed to exercise the threat of prices Create a dead end with Colombia On the return of expelled migrants.