Mounting concerns about trade are exacerbating the deceleration in global growth expectations. If it continues, the current tit-for-tat escalation could become reminiscent of the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930 (it deepened the Great Depression). Economists forecast that a full-blown war with a 10% increase in tariffs on all goods traded around the world would only reduce […]
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