I don’t recall a recession among president’s campaign promises
I followed the 2024 presidential campaign pretty closely. I do not recall ever hearing Donald Trump promise the American people that his policies in the first few months of his new term would raise consumer prices, alienate our allies, and threaten to plunge the United States into a recession. Did I miss something?
Barry Brodsky
Swampscott
Trump … a Dadaist?
Look at the stock market if you dare. Donald Trump pledged to “make America great again” yet look at the results. Destroying the country in order to improve it is much like the rationale behind Dadaism (destruction is creation). Can we survive such recklessness?
James R. Weiss
Salem
New England can kiss the Canadian tourist market goodbye
With Canadians shunning US goods as a result of Washington’s ill-founded trade policy, the pain that Baxter Brewing Co. of Lewiston, Maine, and its employees will feel will spread throughout the United States (“Tariff tumult batters craft beer brewers,” Page A1, March 10). A friend in Toronto hosted a dinner party serving victuals sourced solely from non-US countries, a soiree reflected in Baxter president Jenn Lever’s spot-on contention a healthy Canadian market for American goods is “not coming back any time soon.”
Like Massachusetts, Maine has strong economic ties with Canada, especially in the summer when carloads of Quebecois fill the restaurants, hotels, beaches, and amusement parks of Vacationland.
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Republican Senator Susan Collins should work with her Republican congressional colleagues to stop the Trump tariff threats. Failure to do so could prove economically crippling.
Mark S. Sternman
Somerville
Trump could use a primer on tariffs
How is it that someone (Donald Trump) who is a graduate of a prestigious business program (Wharton) of a highly respected university (University of Pennsylvania) does not grasp the concept of tariffs as they pertain to trade?
Mr. President, please repeat after me:
Tariffs … b-a-a-a-d! Free trade … g-o-o-o-o-d!
Frank Gallop
Raynham
Reader could see the stock market dive coming
When I read Larry Edelman’s column last month on the effect President Trump’s policies would have on the economy (“Trump should keep an eye on Wall Street,” Business, Feb. 21), this is what I thought: I worried about the impact of his administration’s ongoing layoffs of federal employees. Specifically, there would be more people unemployed (unjustly so), and there would be serious ripple effects that would have monetary and safety implications for the nation.
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For example, the travel industry would take a hit because of the layoffs at the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service. There are also going to be many who will boycott travel here (many Canadians have said they’ll go elsewhere). I think there are many seismic effects that would disrupt and slow down the economy and possibly cause a recession.
The volatility we’re seeing now in the stock market could be just the beginning.
Michael Englander
Boston
