Peter Navarro: the economist who has outsmarted Elon Musk and has the ear of Donald Trump
by Rory Carroll from on (#6WRH1)
US president's chief trade adviser is intellectual driving force behind global tariffs and trade war with China
Elon Musk called him dumber than a sack of bricks" but, in the raw contest for political power, Peter Navarro has outsmarted the billionaire.
The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, not Musk, who has Donald Trump's ear in the Oval Office.
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