Trump’s Brazil Barrage: Tariffs, Tantrums, and a Tropical Witch Hunt
Donald Trump has once again lobbed a diplomatic grenade, this time in the direction of Brasília. His threat to impose a whopping 50% tariff on...
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Tariff Tensions and Fed Headaches: Monetary Policy in the Age of Trumpian Chaos
The budding rift among Federal Reserve officials over the trajectory of interest rates hinges on diverging views over the inflationary magic of Donald Trump’s tariffs....
Trump’s Copper Crusade: Making Inflation Great Again
President Donald Trump has once again sent commodity markets into a tailspin, this time with an offhand remark to reporters declaring that the United States...
The Dollar Falls Victim to Political Delusion
The euro is on track to chalk up its longest winning streak in eight years, buoyed by growing confidence in the euro zone’s economic outlook...
The Dollar’s Slow Death: How Trump Is Playing with the World’s Reserve Currency
If global investors needed a barometer of their growing disillusionment with President Donald Trump’s economic crusade, they have it: the US dollar. Since Trump’s return...
Fed Forecasts Drift as Trump’s Tariff Storm Clouds Rate Path
Federal Reserve officials are still, somewhat heroically, pencilling in two interest rate cuts in 2025. But their latest projections reveal an increasingly fragmented consensus as...
Trump’s Bunker-Busting Gamble: US Strikes Push Middle East and Markets to the Brink
In a dramatic escalation with potentially seismic consequences, President Donald Trump authorised unprecedented airstrikes against Iran, triggering global alarm just as the world economy teeters...
Washington Flirts with Risk: US Regulators Eye Looser Capital Buffers for Megabanks
In what might generously be described as a curious interpretation of “financial stability,” the United States’ top banking regulators are reportedly considering a reduction of...
Trump’s Monetary’ Rocket Fuel’: A Lesson in Central Bank Arm-Twisting
President Donald Trump is back on his favourite economic hobbyhorse: bullying the Federal Reserve into doing his bidding. His latest social media salvo demanded a...