Trade wars 
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SOURCE: KUER
7-12-18
How A Tariff Loving Utah Senator Became A Cautionary Tale About Protectionism
You’ll recognize his name: He’s the Smoot in Smoot-Hawley.
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6/17/18
Is the West in Disarray?
by Bruce W. Dearstyne
That sounds like a topic from another era. But it’s shockingly of the moment.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
6-2-18
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.
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5-4-18
Trade Wars Don’t Have a Good Track Record
by Suzy Evans
Case in point: Jefferson’s embargo of France and Great Britain.
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SOURCE: CNBC
4-30-18
Trade wars can be ‘fantastically disruptive,’ the IMF’s historian warns
Princeton’s Harold James says the history lesson is clear.
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