Most Favoured Nation: Trade Wars Are Bad And Hard To Define

What is trade good for? Absolutely nothing/everything.

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What even is a trade war?

A few weeks back, during the dark dark days of the EU-UK sausage war, a journalist called and asked me to define a “trade war”. Which is a…