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Yellen slams Trump tariff agenda as ‘worst self-inflicted policy wound'

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12.04.2025

Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen weighed in on the Trump administration's trade war Friday evening, blasting President Trump's latest roll-out of import taxes on nearly all trading partners.

"This is the worst self-inflicted policy wound I've ever seen in my career inflicted on our economy," she told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview. "The Trump tariff plans are doing immense damage to our economy."

"You can see that in the stock market, in the impact of these tariffs are expected to have on American households," she added.

When asked how Wall Street and the economy could recover amid a volatile market sparked by Trump's tariffs — which the president put on a 90-day........

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