Last week, I was able to escape the swamp-like conditions of Washington, D.C., and trade them for the near perdition-like temperatures of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. There, I visited our Steel Summit subsidiary and made my way to Nashville for The Conference Board’s quarterly Government Relations Executive Council meeting.
Last year, during the Christmas holiday, I purchased each member of my immediate family one of those Page-a-Day Calendars that I thought matched their personality. Among others, I bought calendars on Zen, Dad Jokes, Sports Trivia, Cats, and Crossword Puzzles. If I would have bought one that included a Word-of-the-Day, there is no doubt that “tariff” would have popped up this week.
Earlier this week, sitting in an introductory pitch meeting with one of Washington’s leading public policy consulting firms, discussing the first 45 days of the second Trump administration, one word jumped out at me. I actually circled it in my notepad…”schizophrenic.” Whoa…