Peter Navarro: the economist who has outsmarted Elon Musk and has the ear of Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : For Trump, Navarro is the expert who can articulate a daring and necessary pivot to protectionism.
69% : " Trump had few credentialed academics on his team so Navarro served a useful purpose, Pitney said.
62% : He taught economics at San Diego universities and did research on public utilities before landing a tenure position as professor of economics and public policy at UCI in 1989.
55% : The son of a musician and a secretary, he grew up on the east coast and obtained a master's degree in public administration and then a PhD in economics from Harvard.
45% : The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, not Musk, who has Donald Trump's ear in the Oval Office.
42% : "He provided a degree of scholarly cover for what Trump was saying.
41% : In 2016 Trump reportedly instructed his son-in-law Jared Kushner to do research to bolster his views on China.

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