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... The administration is still lavishing Americans with visions of a golden age to come. Yet in the course of a madcap week -- which saw a flurry of tariffs and reversals, sparking a global trade war and a sharp stock-market decline -- the tone changed a bit.

"There'll be a little disturbance, but we're OK with that," Trump told Congress on Tuesday, defending his plans to throw up a protectionist barrier around the US with the biggest tariff increases in almost a century.

By Friday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was arguing that the world's biggest economy needed some "detox" to wean it off dependence on public spending. ...