Resignation of Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn removes restraint from White House tariff policy
After a quiet Monday (well relatively–since all we had was noise from Republicans in Congress in opposition to President Donald Trump’s plan to put a 25% tariff on important steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum and threats from the European Union to restrict imports of U.S. bourbon, Harley Davidson motorcycles, and blue jeans) on the global trade war front, today Gary Cohn, the President’s top economic adviser, Â resigned after losing the tariff battle to trade hardliners
