One has to admire Donald Trump’s gall. Against the best economic advice that the experts could give, he went and raised tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. Despite the pundits’ caution that a trade war would follow which would severely damage the United States economy and plunge the world into recession, some of the American steel plants that had been closed since the days of Bill Clinton have now re-opened and employees have been called back to work.
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