President Donald Trump may be the only one who calls “tariff” the “most beautiful word in the dictionary,” but his exuberance reflects a broader reality: We are living in an age of economic warfare.

Gold has smashed through $3,000 per ounce, peaking at $3,057 on Thursday before closing at $3,022 last Friday – a new all-time high.

As the U.S. holds separate talks with Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia about the future of Vladimir Putin’s war, Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza says, “we cannot ...