{"id":8520,"date":"2025-04-24T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/laffer-tariffs-could-wreak-havoc-on-economy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:21:46","slug":"laffer-tariffs-could-wreak-havoc-on-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/laffer-tariffs-could-wreak-havoc-on-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Laffer: Tariffs could wreak havoc on economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art Laffer, a noted conservative economist, said in a new interview that President Trump&rsquo;s tariffs could cause a significant downturn in the economy. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t know how anyone looking at the facts could argue that protectionism doesn&#8217;t create downturns,&#8221; Laffer said in an interview with Axios on Wednesday&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/business\/economy\/5266023-laffer-tariffs-trump-economy-downturns\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Laffer, a noted conservative economist, said in a new interview that President Trump&rsquo;s tariffs could cause a significant downturn in the economy. &ldquo;I don&#8217;t know how anyone looking at the facts could argue that protectionism doesn&#8217;t create downturns,&#8221; Laffer said in an interview with Axios on Wednesday&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}