Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?
EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.
Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.
yarr@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
You know, in a world where most people don’t listen to experts and follow data, there’s a lot of money to be made in just doing your research. It seems like over time the people and places that learn to use data to guide their hand will outperform the ones of those that do not.
I guess we will see which one is a winning strategy.
EvilBit@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.