If they were impressed with the equation and believed it was complicated then that’s the worst part of all of this. It shows exactly how stupid they think we all are—or it reveals something about them, I don’t know. That’s why I feel like I MUST be missing something…

ok, so overcomplicating the equation was intentional in that most people wouldn’t look into it. Fine. I also wanna say updated variables could be plugged in later ??? buuut if “m” should have represented a tariff calc and not a trade deficit value then what is happening here??