Trump Working His Magic With Tariff Diplomacy

Michael Busler
3 min readDec 2, 2024

Trump will fix the border, persuade our neighbors to help and perform other feats that will look magical.

Although Donald Trump is seven weeks away from being sworn in as the nation’s 47th president, he is already showing that he can solve the nation’s most difficult problems. While many problems seem to have no good solutions, his well-placed cabinet and he will find ways to solve them. It will seem almost magical.

In today’s environment, long-term economic stability is difficult to achieve, especially considering the divided country. Yet Trump has offered solutions, that will soon be implemented, to bring long-term economic prosperity.

Trump realizes that our economy must be able to domestically produce the goods and services that are vital, even knowing producing outside of the US is often far less expensive.

The problem is that importing so much while exporting so little leads to a negative balance of trade that results in hundreds of billions of dollars flowing out of the country. This enriches our trading partners. Some are adversaries, like China.

Trump’s use of tariffs or the threat of tariffs, is already beginning to cure problems. This is a continuation of the policy Trump used during his first term in office. At that time, he discovered nearly every one…

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Michael Busler
Michael Busler

Written by Michael Busler

Dr. Busler is an economist and a public policy analyst. He is a Professor of Finance at Stockton University. His op-ed columns appear in Townhall, Newsmax.

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