2002 by President George W. Bush ended up wiping out 200,000 U.S. jobs.

“Tariffs are taxes, and the American taxpayer will pay the cost of a trade war,” said Cody Lusk, president and CEO of the American International Automobile Dealers Association. “Even with limited exemptions, tariffs will raise the sale prices of new vehicles.”

Stocks ended the day higher after the announcement, with investors relieved by the carved out exceptions for key allies.

At the White House, an upbeat Trump chatted with the steelworkers, invited them to the Oval Office and autographed a hard hat. He invited some of the workers to speak from the presidential podium, and several said that excessive “dumping” of foreign steel and aluminum had negatively affected their jobs and families.

Nations around the globe that were notalmost glowed with an odd clarity, drawing me in. One word described the place:

Terabithia.

Cerweth the Ninth of the Year 2002 during the Third Age

I woke around dusk and started off again. This pattern of sleeping by day and traveling by night continued for nearly five days before anything changed. The last night I stopped shortly before dawn and settled in my current tree before falling asleep.

Gandalf woke to clear morning light. Stretching, he noted the position of the sun; a tad over the treetops. As his gaze returned to his surroundings he glimpsed a shadowed shape among the branches of a nearby tree. Unsure of what it was, his first thought of it being a barrow-wight was dismissed as it was day. Certainly it was no foul creature,