Russia Sanctions Trade Shock: Fulfilling the Fears of Smoot-Hawley? — Yves Smith

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The first part is on the war, the second on the economics of it, trade in particular. (Not a great title. Hardly anything to do with Smoot-Hawley. The situations are very different.)Naked CapitalismRussia Sanctions Trade Shock: Fulfilling the Fears of Smoot-Hawley?Yves Smithhttps://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/03/russia-sanctions-trade-shock-fulfilling-the-fears-of-smoot-hawley.htmlRelatedTax Research UKThe absence of any sort of strategic thinking within the government is why we’re in a mess nowRichard Murphy | Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at City University, London; Director of Tax Research UK; non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics, and a member of the Progressive Economy Forum

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