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Our very own director and chief economist was noted for his way with words last week, with one of his barbs at tariff policy: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Tariffs are dumb policies, but random tariffs are 10 times as dumb.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Howard Wall, director of UTC’s Center for Regional Economic Research, during an interview about job forecasts<\/a> for the upcoming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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