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Coupes & Coops: A Tariff Story about Autos and Eggs
So what does the fate of a once-booming chicken-and-egg industry in my birth state of New Jersey have in common with the evolution of the US auto industry? A 25% tariff, that’s what. We begin today’s missive with a link to a January 29, 2025, CATO blog post that describes, with seven fascinating charts, what…
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The Price of Eggs & Bird Flu
We thank readers for their feedback on the January 26 Sunday Kotok Report, “Trump 2.0 and Healthcare?” (https://kotokreport.com/trump-2-0-healthcare/). And, yes, the book — The Fed and the Flu: Parsing Pandemic Economic Shocks — is finished and will be released on February 12. Details regarding preorders are updated at https://www.thefedandtheflu.com. Two recent reviews are out, at Kirkus Reviews and Readers’ Favorite. Flu…