It was the evening of Wednesday, April 2, and President Donald Trump had just appeared in the White House Rose Garden, brandishing a large placard with the punitive tariff rates he was slapping on countries around the world.
On Wall Street, it quickly sunk in that Trump was serious about shattering a global trading system that he said was wired against the United States.
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