NYT ARTICLE TARIFFS TRUMP WAS SEEING WHAT I HAD SEEN 80S RE JAPAN AND TRADE BOZO ENTREPRENEURSHIP

This was generally poo pooed back then, especially by economists and so called liberal business experts.

Of course, Japan was only the beginning......BUT HAD ALREADY MADE CONSIDERABLE HEADWAY IN ERODING THE INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL BASE HERE.

The very last thing these people were was entrepreneurial in the bozo Western economists' sense of capitalist dynamism.