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On February 19, Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and ‘The Road to Freedom’ author, joined CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the state of the economy and argued that conditions are poor and likely to deteriorate. Challenging more optimistic views, Stiglitz addressed the debate over why tariffs have not sparked an immediate inflationary explosion. He explained that economists must consider the counterfactual: what inflation would have been without the tariffs. He noted that while inflation was ...