{"id":4958,"date":"2026-02-23T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=4958"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:11:00","slug":"president-trump-is-doubling-down-on-tariffs-even-though-they-have-so-far-failed-to-achieve-one-of-their-stated-goals-rebalancing-lopsided-global-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/?p=4958","title":{"rendered":"President Trump is doubling down on tariffs, even though they have so far failed to achieve one of their stated goals: rebalancing lopsided global trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.wsj.net\/im-53289313\" \/><br \/>Exporting countries are sticking to their economic models, frustrating U.S. hopes that levies can fix imbalances.<br \/>\n2026-02-23 11:11:00<br \/>\nTom Fairless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exporting countries are sticking to their economic models, frustrating U.S. hopes that levies can fix imbalances. 2026-02-23 11:11:00 Tom Fairless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empeiroscapital.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}