The U.S. government’s renewed embrace of tariffs may be slowing deficits at the margins, but it does little to alter the country’s long-term debt trajectory, according to macro strategist Lyn Alden. Speaking with Scott Melker, host of TheStreet Roundtable, Alden described tariffs as the largest tax increase in decades, one that policymakers have been able to push through by calling it a national emergency. “One of the levers that does somewhat slow it are the tariffs,” Alden explained. “That basically rep ...