Comment by huitzitziltzin

What individuals may or may not understand is irrelevant. The professional staff at Treasury or Commerce will include a variety of people with a lot of relevant knowledge and experience.

Then there are people who clearly don’t understand (but should know better) like Navarro.

The beliefs of the man at the top, which are not particularly fixed and vary from hour to hour according to what has most recently been tweeted at him, are the only beliefs that matter.

He is not known to be a deep thinker about matters of international economics so I wouldn’t expect much!