Hudson Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies Group, Irwin Stelzer delivered the President's Lecture, __Sustainable Growth:
Common Sense and Compromise Rather Than Ideological Purity__, at Illinois Institute of Technology on October 19, 2012.

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US President Donald Trump reacts after signing executive orders imposing tariffs on imported goods in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)