Peter Nimmo<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> readers will be familiar with this sort of rhetoric from proponents of another experiment in shaking up trade- <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a>.<br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TrumpTarrifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTarrifs</span></a> <br><a href="https://journa.host/@w7voa/114293877623097377" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journa.host/@w7voa/11429387762</span><span class="invisible">3097377</span></a><br>w7voa@journa.host - "I don't want anything to go down. But sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something," President Trump, on Air Force One, responds to reporters asking about stock markets plunging.</p>