Trump's Protectionism Will Just Make Everyone Poorer—If We're Lucky

What America is facing are the illogical trade policies of an economically illiterate president in the White House. President Trump's decisions do not only threaten to make Americans poorer than they, otherwise, have to be, but which might set in motion the opening shots of an international trade war that could drag the world into a downward spiral of global hostility, economic instability, and worsening standards of living for hundreds of millions of people around the globe.