tariffs which are set to go into effect on friday we need to be prepared to act in the u.s. interest again to defend free and fair are supercool try to analyse it and in doing that there is always it with us if we put tariffs on the other people or worse for it and there's a risk of the trade worse the president has said we're not afraid of getting into a trade war given the size of our market the size of our economy and the fact that we have a big trade deficit having said that that's not our call it was an odd but not unexpected message of american unilateral ism during a series of meetings devoted to economic cooperation yet trade was not the reason for this week's meetings and the specifics of the looming american tariffs never came up in the official discussion participant said the focus was on crypto currencies like bitcoin in their current form digital currencies are not friendly to monetary policy they're opaque decentralized and often involved in unsavory