Hello, I'm Helen Joyce, the finance editor of the Economist.

Welcome to Money Talks.

Coming up in the programme.

After months of talk, the trade war has finally kicked off.

How far will it go?

I'm mini-gids the answer to getting electricity to the remotest, poorest parts of the world.

The International Energy Agency, which is the sort of

forecaster-in-chief of these things, predicts that between now and 2030 most of the

rural electrification will be done by mini-grid with investment rates of billions of

dollars a year eventually and the co-working space giant we work is it overvalued

when you think about the value of community and collaboration and

having employees that are more engaged and are happier to go to work, that's something

that is much bigger than real estate.

First, Donald Trump arrives in Britain on Thursday, the first visit since he became America's

President.

He'll be coming fresh from a NATO summit in Brussels, and after a round or two of golf in

Scotland he will then head to Helsinki to meet Vladimir Putin.

During his travels it's unlikely he'll be able to avoid the controversy he generated

with his trade tariffs.

Samaa Keynes is our US economics editor.

Samaa ever since it looked like Donald Trump was going to

pick trade wars across the world, you've been talking about this here on

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