Dithering Donald, his tiresome tariffs and unpredictable U-turns are proving to be calamitously counter-productive. So, deliberately, this is not just another update on him and them.
Instead, I’m focusing on the unexpected results of the US President’s here today, gone tomorrow ‘policy’ announcements. Or are they just mumblings from an old bloke who makes stuff up as he goes along?
Either way, he at least deserves credit for placing cars, the auto industry and showroom prices at the top of the news agenda – where they should be. Industries don’t come much bigger than this. The world would be a far worse, poorer, less mobile place were it not for firms deep inside, or on the outskirts of the global auto business, that generate trillions of dollars and provide millions of reasonably paid jobs.
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