‘The knee-jerk reaction of 2010 is the wrong answer’ – Construction chief Anthony McCarthy on playing the long game on Trump’s tariffs

‘The knee-jerk reaction of 2010 is the wrong answer’ – Construction chief Anthony McCarthy on playing the long game on Trump’s tariffs

When Anthony McCarthy was given the job of picking a new site for a headquarters for the Central Bank of Ireland, he chose the half-built and abandoned Anglo Irish Bank building on the Liffey quays.

Trump’s tariff plan replaces free trade with balanced trade. Globalists hate that.

From LifeSiteNews By Frank Wright While globalists screech that Trump has descended into ‘madness,’ his ‘Liberation Day’ tariff plan that has shocked global markets is actually rooted in the combination of two economic theories that argue for ‘balanced’ trade over ‘free’ trade. We are used to seeing the effects of Trump Derangement Syndrome in the blue-haired, red-faced hysterics who call the President “Orange Hitler.” Yet the introduction of ta…

If protection against imports were a sign of virtuosity, Brazil and Argentina, which have practiced the recipe for many decades, would today be two of the most prosperous nations on the planet. It is curious and alarming that the United States, perhaps the greatest beneficiaries of free trade in human history, is now rebelling against it. Read more (04/12/2025)

CHRONIQUE. Donald Trump's threats and then the aft-face on customs duties have revived the debate on the virtues of protectionism. Long associated with the right, however, free trade is a deeply progressive idea, recalls historian Jean-Marc Albert.