Greer was serving as a lieutenant on board the San Jacinto on 7 November 1861, when she stopped the BritishsteamerTrent and removed the Confederate diplomatic commissioners on their way to Britain, thereby nearly drawing Great Britain into the war on the Confederate side. This incident became celebrated as the Trent Affair.
At last week’s TPM25 by S&P Global, Scott Lincicome, VP of economics and trade at the Cato Institute, claimed that aside from US trade representative JamesGreer, others in the cabinet likely “don’t grasp the complexity” of tariffs.