“Supply chains don’t move overnight,” says Keychain CEO Oisin Hanrahan. “Above all, people don’t want to be caught flat-footed.”
There is “a misconception that tariffs reduce trade deficits,” says economist Joseph Gagnon at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. “Well they don’t.”
Responses to our survey reflect sharply contrasting views on topics from RFK Jr to tariffs and regenerative agriculture.
“There was a feeling that supply chains seemed to work reasonably well until around 2010. And then things start getting really messy,” says supply chain consultant Matt Lekstutis.
“If he goes ahead, it’s going to have enormously consequential and negative impacts on American manufacturing and agriculture,” predicts Dent.
