Trump tariffs create economic chaos: Risk of higher prices and even the "R" word recession

Duck and cover: The Trump economy takes ghastly shape.😱

I don’t recall a recession being among Donald Trump's campaign promises.

Echo opinion letters published in The Boston Globe:

Dear Editor: I followed the 2024, presidential campaign pretty closely. I do not recall ever hearing Donald Trump promise the American people that his policies in the first few months of his new term would raise consumer prices, alienate our allies, and threaten to plunge the United States into a recession. Did I miss something?

From: Barry Brodsky in Swampscott, Massachusetts

Dear Editor: Trump… a Dadaist? (Translated: Someone who embraces or is associated with Dadaism, rejecting traditional artistic values and embracing the absurd.)

Look at the stock market if you dare. Donald Trump pledged to “make America great again” yet look at the results. Destroying the country in order to improve it is much like the rationale behind Dadaism (destruction is creation). Can we survive such recklessness?

From James R. Weiss in Salem, Massachusetts

Dear Editor: Like Massachusetts, Maine has strong economic ties with Canada, especially in the summer when carloads of Quebecois fill the restaurants, hotels, beaches, and amusement parks of Vacationland. Maine's Republican Senator Susan Collins should work with her Republican congressional colleagues to stop the Trump tariff threats. Failure to do so could prove economically crippling.

From Mark S. Sternman in Somerville, Massachusetts