A New Birth of the U.S. Economy: Tariffs, Industry, and the Physical Economy

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The media would have you believe the Supreme Court just gutted Trump's tariff authority.

President Trump had a different read.

At his February 20th press conference, he put it plainly: before the ruling, there was uncertainty. Now, there's certainty. And he's right.

In this week's Saturday class, Brian Lantz cuts through the noise to show what's actually happening in the physical economy — not the stock ticker, not the bond market, but the factories being built, the workers being hired, and the supply chains being rewired on American soil.

Brian walks through the tariff situation with precision.

• The 10% import surcharge under Section 122 is in place.
• Section 301 investigations continue country by country.
• The 50% tariff on steel and aluminum under Section 232 is untouched.

And the results are already showing: a 17% decline in the trade deficit between April and December 2025, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

But the real story is what's being built.

Japanese and South Korean firms are investing billions in American manufacturing — from a synthetic diamond grit facility in Georgia to a $6 billion zinc smelter in Tennessee backed by DoD capital.

Vulcan Elements is constructing a $1.4 billion rare-earth magnet supply chain, end to end, right here.

And the nuclear renaissance is accelerating: Valor Atomics plans to have a microreactor operational by July 4, 2026, the DOE is requesting states to host nuclear innovation campuses, and an 11-gigawatt nuclear campus is underway near Amarillo.

Brian also highlights the young leaders driving this transformation — Vance, Rubio, Greer — and draws a parallel to the generation Hamilton assembled to build the first American System.

These aren't Wall Street insiders.

Greer grew up in a mobile home. Rubio's dad was a bartender. They're fighting for a producer economy because they come from the world that needs one.

This is the kind of briefing you need heading into the 2026 midterms. For deeper, regularly updated coverage of the physical economy, subscribe to Brian's free Substack.

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