'Nail gets hammered': Businesses despise Trump's tariffs but stay silent fearing reprisal

The business community is mired in a "culture of fear" as it wants to oppose President Donald Trump's new round of tariffs but fears reprisal from the U.S. government, Politico reported on Friday.

Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs target practically every country's goods with new import duties ranging from 10 to 49 percent, and for some reason even explicitly include some uninhabited Antarctic volcano islands with no trade or industry.

The stock market has reacted with its...