There's a Way to Avoid Endless Trade Wars

Barely a month after I became the economic counselor to the International Monetary Fund in 2022, Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. The Russian invasion would pose a challenge I hadn’t quite anticipated: managing the economic fallout of wars. Since then, the global economy has had to navigate a series of conflicts — economic ones, like President Trump’s volley of tariffs, and actual ones, like the war in the Middle East involving the United States, Israel and Iran. Read Full Article »