Tariff Schmariff: A Satire Without Borders (American Absurdities) - Softcover

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A year ago, it was satire. Now reality seems determined to catch up.

When Tariff Schmariff was published, the premise was simple: What happens when Donald Trump decides to put tariffs on practically everything—and the rest of the world has to figure out how to respond?

Then the real trade wars got stranger.

Canada is fighting back. Tariffs are climbing. And suddenly a book in which Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to make sense of arbitrary Canadian tariffs feels a little less fictional than it used to.

Welcome to Tariff Schmariff.

Here, tariffs aren’t calculated with boring things like economics.
They’re based on Olympic hockey medals and random gas-station numbers.
The price of Wiener schnitzel in Manhattan.
French silent letters.
Unfair national happiness.

Soon customs agents are raiding diners over Belgian waffles, foreign governments are devising increasingly creative retaliation, and countries from Germany and France to Finland, Bhutan, China—and yes, Canada—are discovering that international trade policy has become indistinguishable from sketch comedy.

Tariff Schmariff is fast, ridiculous political satire for anyone who has looked at the latest trade-war headline and wondered whether the parody writers are still necessary.

“Pitch-perfect satire… bold, bizarre, and brilliantly funny.”
— K.C. Finn, Readers’ Favorite, 5 Stars

“Tariff Schmariff feels less like a parody and more like a prediction.”
— Manik Chaturmutha, Readers’ Favorite, 5 Stars

If reality insists on having a trade war, you might as well laugh at it.

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