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Why CEOs are calm about tariffs in public — but 'very discouraged' in private

Why CEOs are calm about tariffs in public — but 'very discouraged' in private toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images/Getty Images North America Wall Street is panic-selling over President Trump's chaotic new tariffs. "The business community understands what the president is trying to do with tariffs," Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon told Fox Business Network on Wednesday. Sponsor Message Business leaders But eight years later, corporate America is much less willing to wade into public conversations about politics — or "social" issues that companies don't see as directly related to their bottom lines. 80% of those CEOs say "that they find themselves apologizing to our international partners for Trump's capriciousness," Sonnenfeld told NPR's Morning Edition on Thursday.

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