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.