# Retaliatory tariffs **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 24, 2025, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322 "2025-01-24T04:48:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 337
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322/337 "2025-04-03T16:58:21Z")
Here it is. Search actually came through this time. > [@Principles of "Folk Economics"](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/principles-of-folk-economics/767912): > > IANA economist, but ISTM there are certain principles of “folk economics” that are so widely-believed that politicians have no choice but to pander to them. When I googled “folk economics” I see that there’s a [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_economics) but it’s just a stub. Maybe there’s a better term for this? Anyway, in the meantime, I thought it would be interesting to try to list out some of the implicit economic premises many believe: [ol] [li]Obvious one to start: economics is zero sum. For one person / company … --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/retaliatory-tariffs/1013322)._