Aside from the standard economic arguments, there is also the crony capitalism argument: Trump has discovered that because he has unilateral power over tariffs

Aside from the standard economic arguments, there is also the crony capitalism argument: Trump has discovered that because he has unilateral power over tariffs and subsidies, this gives him the power of life and death over individual industries and companies. https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/07/trade-war.html?m=1 https://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2018/07/trade-war.html?m=...