Walling Off The Markets
How Trump’s Tariffs Are Sabotaging Global Trade, Spooking Markets, and Igniting an Economic Slowdown All to Solve a Problem That Doesn’t Exist
As the global economy stumbles into Trump’s tariff thunderdome, it’s worth pausing to acknowledge that most people, including, worryingly, the person issuing these tariffs, don’t actually understand how trade works. The very premise behind this economic brinkmanship is flawed at the root, driven by the false belief that trade deficits are a kind of nati…
