Trump’s bets on tariffs

Donald Trump's recent decision to introduce tariffs of varying amounts (from 10% to 50%) on products from 180 countries has generated strong turbulence in the financial markets and shakeups in the geopolitical balance. Many have called the US President's move madness, an illogical choice that among other things risks thwarting the goal that has conquered the sentiment of the majority of the electorate: to bring the United States back to a new "golden age", which, for the Americans, can be located in a not too distant past (specifically, the 90s, following the collapse of the Soviet Union but prior to the rise of the Chinese economy)…