Trade wars

How A Tariff Loving Utah Senator Became A Cautionary Tale About Protectionism

You’ll recognize his name: He’s the Smoot in Smoot-Hawley.

Is the West in Disarray?

by Bruce W. Dearstyne

That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.

Trump thinks he’s saving trade. The rest of the world thinks he’s blowing it up.

President Trump appears prepared to unravel 70 years of pain­staking effort that the United States has led to build an inter­national system of trade based on mutually accepted rules and principles.

Trade Wars Don’t Have a Good Track Record

by Suzy Evans

Case in point: Jefferson’s embargo of France and Great Britain.

Trade wars can be ‘fantastically disruptive,’ the IMF’s historian warns

Princeton’s Harold James says the history lesson is clear.