Peter Navarro, one of President Trump’s top trade advisers, wrote a memo in late January 2020 warning of potentially dire consequences for American citizens and the U.S. economy if the federal government didn’t swiftly implement active “containment” measures, including a ban on travel from China, to stem the growth of the COVID-19 virus.
Scott Lincicome is an author of the Dispatch Markets newsletter, vice president of general economics and trade at the Cato Institute, and a visiting lecturer at Duke University Law School. He wrote the Capitolism newsletter at The Dispatch from 2020 through 2026.
