Who’s ready to party like it’s 1979? President Trump’s over-the-top trade war caused the stock markets to have their worst day since the early COVID phase of 2020. (Who was president back then?) Now there are fears of the worst economic double-whammy short of a depression. Could we really see “stagflation,” a period of high prices and high unemployment? Courier Newsroom’s Keya Vakil has more about the impact of Trump’s tariffs at the local level.

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