Trump’s Protectionism and the Danger of a 1930s-Style Tit-for-Tat Trade War

from from FEE on 2018-06-11 15:51 (#3S2KE)

The good news is that Donald Trump is not imitating all of Herbert Hoover's statist policies.

The bad news, as I explain in this interview, is that his protectionist mistakes could trigger a repeat of Hoover's beggar-thy-neighbor protectionism that wreaked havoc in the global economy during the 1930s.

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