Howard Lutnick Doesn’t Get To Decide What You Buy
Every day, thousands of transactions take place in which Americans and Canadians consent to exchange currency for goods. Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks there is someone they forgot to ask. “We don’t want to buy 60 percent of our aluminum from Canada,” Lutnick explained during an interview with Fox News on Thursday. “We want to bring [aluminum production] to America.” Lutnick’s phrasing there is pretty telling. There is no “royal we” in the marketplace—that Canadian aluminum is not […]