Why pickups cost so much in the U.S.

July 5, Michael Davis, economics professor at the Cox School of Business, SMU Dallas, for an op-ed about how tariffs become taxes and can jack up the price of products like pickup trucks. Published in the Houston Chronicle under the heading Why pickups cost so much in the U.S.: https://tinyurl.com/s7uhyvxr 

It’s OK to talk politics with your family. I know this because my two brothers and I like to talk about pickup trucks, which is really just another way of talking politics.

I should explain. The brothers are both engineers. But not the kind of engineers who sit in front of a computer writing code and collecting stock options. They’re the kind of engineers who go to remote work sites full of heavy equipment and hazardous chemicals. They know about pickup trucks.

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