Trade negotiator: China Vice-Premier Liu He will travel to Washington as early as this week for trade discussions, after a US delegation to Beijing earlier in the month, led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, failed to reach a deal to resolve outstanding trade concerns. — AP
COLUMBUS: Ferris Bueller may have missed his economics lesson on tariffs the day he cut class, but one of Washington’s biggest trade groups is making sure President Donald Trump and other policy makers don’t.
The National Retail Federation is starting an advertising campaign this week featuring actor and commentator Ben Stein, who’s reprising his role as the economics teacher from the 1986 teen comedy “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” arguing that tariffs are “B-A-D Economics” and hurt consumers.
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