Source: WASHINGTON TIMES, 2/3/19

What child has not enjoyed his first encounter with bubbles? Often made with dish soap and water, the translucent balls could float until they popped in the wind. But there are other bubbles that can pop: The dot-com bubble, housing bubbles, stock market bubbles and even the Bitcoin bubble. But now there’s an asset bubble swelling up in the Midwestern United States, and like all bubbles, it will pop and we’ll be left cleaning up the mess. Strangely enough, the U.S.-China trade war is the cause.

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