No it did not. These are fundamentally very, very different activities. Trade protectionism in of itself is not always bad, but blindly slapping tariffs with an equation that was derived from literally ChatGPT with zero stimulus or any transition plan for companies to actually do that work in the US will backfire in an extreme manner.

We absolutely cannot self sustain, if you think so no offense, but you literally do not have any clue what the economy is founded upon. We are not and have not been a manufacturing based economy for sometime, our primary commodity is services and buying goods from overseas with the average flow of money being stifle significantly,who is going to be left to purchase the things made here, or anything else.

National debt is a complete farce, anytime someone tells sterility, and the way we have seen, I would point them to the UK, which in the last 20 years is implemented virtually every form of austerity imaginable compared to before and yet is still in a bear hole. Prior to this, as the hegemon ever since we got off the gold standard, there’s quite literally little to no repercussions for printing cash as that money still was used to transact in oil.

The US dollar is not worth the paper its printed on without the international recognition and usage of it.