“This is the president’s vision. My function, really, as an economist is to try to provide the underlying analytics that confirm his intuition. And his intuition is always right in these matters,” Navarro said. He compared the White House to the successful New England Patriots football team. “The owner, the coach, and the quarterback are all the president. The rest of us are all interchangeable parts.”
Peter Navarro is around the president because Navarro is the only PhD economist he could find who would speak his own trade views back at him. It's not that Navarro talked him into any of these ideas.— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 2, 2018
