{"id":2900,"date":"2026-02-13T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/?p=2900"},"modified":"2026-02-17T21:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:42:47","slug":"kamal-saggi-joins-news-channel-2-wkrn-to-discuss-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/kamal-saggi-joins-news-channel-2-wkrn-to-discuss-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamal Saggi Joins News Channel 2 (WKRN) to discuss tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2068 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2022\/10\/22134040\/saggik4-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, February 12, Department chair and Professor of Economics Kamal Saggi joined Nashville&#8217;s News Channel 2 to discuss trade policy and tariffs after the House of Representatives voted to rescind tariffs imposed on Canada last year.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch his interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkrn.com\/news\/national\/it-will-always-be-at-the-expense-of-our-neighbors-house-votes-to-rescind-canada-tariffs-as-trump-warns-of-consequences\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, February 12, Department chair and Professor of Economics Kamal Saggi joined Nashville&#8217;s News Channel 2 to discuss trade policy and tariffs after the House of Representatives voted to rescind tariffs imposed on Canada last year. You can watch his interview here. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":2904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2026\/02\/Arts-Science-featured-image-template1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2900"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2906,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2900\/revisions\/2906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}