> Why couldn't this tariff strategy be implemented in a more calculated, predictable, slow way to give everyone time to adjust, at home and abroad. What's to gain from doing it this way over the one I mentioned ?

To me, the more concerning detail is that they don’t have any messaging about what their strategy is, except what appears to be guessing from various members of the administration — often which is mutually exclusive with other messaging.

The real risk of all that is people are going to sit on the cash they have, unwilling to make purchases when they can’t see the risk in their future.

My wife and I want to install new flooring, but that’s off the table for us right now, until we have a better idea where this is going.

^ those decisions are disastrous for the economy en masse