President Donald Trump’s tariff posturing hangs as a giant, murky cloud over local economists’ crystal ball for the next one to five years.

“We don’t know what’s really going on with tariffs, do we?” said Anthony Sindone, director of the Center for Economic Education and Research at Indiana University Northwest. Trump keeps changing his strategies, as evidenced by his social media posts.

When there’s fog on the road, drivers go slowly. The same is true when there’s a fog of information about the economy, Sindone told business and commuter leaders at Friday’s Northwest Indiana Business Roundtable economic outlook program at Ivy Tech Community College in Valparaiso.

Overall, he expects the tariffs will result in the loss of about 2,500 jobs in Northwest Indiana over the next year. Over th

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