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Low-price Chinese imports benefit U.S. consumers by providing cheaper goods and technologies (solar panels, batteries), similar to how technological innovations like fluoridated water harmed dentists but benefited society overall

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Speaker

Larry Summers

Evidence Quote

“if China wants to sell us things at really low prices and the transaction is we get solar collectors that help make there be less global climate change or we get batteries that we can put in electric cars and we send them pieces of paper that we print. Think that's a good deal for us or a bad deal for us? Kind of think it's a good deal for us.”

Source

Tariffs, Decline, and the Promise of AI | A Conversation with Larry Summers and Niall Ferguson— University of Austin (UATX)
Created: 8/11/2026, 6:52:24 AM

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