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Trump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the world over trade

  • Written by Clyde Eiríkur Hull, Professor of Management, Rochester Institute of Technology
Instead of fighting other countries, we should be fighting our overflowing landfills.Huguette Roe/shutterstock.com

President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the world.

That’s because it’s premised on the old-school notion of the linear economy in which someone in another country, such...

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