Ken Heydon
Ken Heydon is a former Australian trade official and senior member of the OECD Secretariat and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Recent articles by Ken Heydon
2 December 2024
Trump’s tariffs are a fool’s game
US President-elect Donald Trump's protectionist trade policies — marked by high tariffs — have been a major economic setback for the United States. The costs of these policies have harmed domestic buyers and caused job losses in sectors related to the targeted industries. Rather than resolving the trade imbalance issue as Trump intended, his administration's fiscal expansion and subsequent reactions from affected countries have led to a major surge in the US trade deficit.