Trump Is Right About Trade Imbalances. Does He Know How to Fix Them?
The short answer was: No one really knew. There was no plan. But there were urgent reasons to come up with one. The conventional wisdom was that the economic mess following World War I had helped to bring about World War II. So how would the Allies keep history from repeating itself?
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