The pain of doing business under Trump

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Bit by bit, one by one, they started to come out. 

After days of market mayhem, America’s billionaires finally did something this week that few top bosses have done since Donald Trump took office in January: sound off about the US president’s actions.

Trump’s sweeping tariffs, they said, were a “huge policy mistake” born of “stupidity” that could spark an…