Tariffs are not Costless
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Brian Albrecht, ICLE Chief Economist, was recently mentioned in Bloomberg article on President Trump’s nomination of EJ Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the concerns it has raised about politicizing the agency. Read the full article here.
And here’s Brian Albrecht.
Anyway, one interesting thing that I hadn’t realized before talking to Beach is the kind of history of this role as non-partisan or non- aligned to the presidential cycle. So for example, Beach was confirmed by the Senate in March 2019, during the Trump administration, and served through March 2023, largely under Biden.