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trade war
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It was French king Louis XIV (1638-1715) who famously declared, “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”). This week, it was clearer than usual that this is an attitude apparently shared by Donald Trump, president of the United States.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
No, Mr. President, Tariffs Do Not Cause Prosperity
by Jeffrey Tucker May 10, 2019The prospect that the US president would conclude that tariffs cause growth has always been the downside of good economic numbers.
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It was amusing, yesterday, to see the President of the United States with his counter-part from the EU, a Luxembourgian.