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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. ...

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

Of course Sec Bessent would say that.

He'd much prefer that "public spending" be replaced by private for-profit companies, because for-profit healthcare has worked out so well?