President Donald Trump’s rapidly evolving trade war threatens to resurrect an all-too-familiar question for the Federal Reserve: If inflation moves higher, will it be transitory?

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President Donald Trump launched a trade war Tuesday against America’s three biggest trading partners, drawing immediate retaliation from Mexico, Canada and China and sending financial markets into a tailspin as the U.