PALI LEHOHLA | Trumponomics gambles with trust and goodwill the US may never regain
The country hit with the highest tariff, Lesotho, had a tradesman whose story serves as a cautionary tale
22 April 2025 - 04:30
The story told to me by my eldest brother about an entrepreneurial innovation that went south in the 1950s in Lesotho resonates with the radical Trumponomics of trade wars. The consequences of the innovative policy of President Donald Trump is bound to take the US south in the not too distant future, and there will be no “ass to lick”...
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