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Peter Navarro

Peter Navarro, a former economics advisor to former President Donald Trump, has figured in my humble blog before. Or at least I thought he had, but I cannot find him now.  I cannot find him in the precursor to this blog either.  A little further searching finds that I did say something about Navarro on the social media site then known as Twitter. You can find it here: Click.   I was sure I had said something about Navarro's theories about US-China relations, which are presumably what led Trump to hire him for an economist's post. But I can't find it now.  That's too bad, because IIRC, early in the Trump administration Navarro got caught in some blatant scholarly finangling in his (allegedly non-fiction) books on trade. He would  quote a supposed expert to nail down a point. The expert was a fellow named Ron Vara.  It turns out there was no Ron Vara.  I'm sure I wrote something about that, but I can't find it and it wasn't worth the effort that I've alr...