The avocado tariff is on hold

A microcosm of the folly of Trumponomics

For the young Rudolph Hass, life was a series of frustrations.

He couldn’t join the US Army during World War I because of a heart condition. In 1923, he moved with his wife Elizabeth from Milwaukee to Pasadena, where he knocked on doors to sell, at first, socks and ties door-to-door, and then, washing machines. Two years later, Hass joined the post offic…