Trump’s Tariff Gambit Collides with the Courts
Donald Trump’s most tangible weapon against America’s ballooning deficits, his trademark tariff hikes, now risks being dismantled by the judiciary. In other words, the one...
The Fed’s Cuts Debate Turns Political
The Federal Reserve is preparing to cut interest rates for the first time in nine months, caught between a weakening labour market, stubbornly sticky inflation,...
The Fed’s Next Steps: From Job Woes to Rate-Cut Roulette
Weak US labour market data has handed investors the excuse they needed to double down on their favourite bet: the Fed is about to start...
Trump’s Fed Pick Promises ‘Independence’ — While Keeping His White House Day Job
Donald Trump’s latest pick for the Federal Reserve Board, Stephen Miran, has managed the rare feat of uniting Democrats and sceptical Republicans in disbelief. At...
How Xi and Putin Redrew the Energy Map
Donald Trump swept back into the Oval Office, promising “American energy dominance.” What he delivered instead was a circus: photo ops, tariff tantrums, and Truth...
Trump’s Tariffs Push Modi Into Xi and Putin’s Arms
It took Donald Trump’s second coming to achieve what years of border clashes, diplomatic frigidity, and mutual suspicion could not: a strategic rapprochement between India...
Trump’s War on the Fed: A Recipe for Higher Borrowing Costs
President Donald Trump’s unprecedented and ever-escalating assault on the Federal Reserve risks backfiring, saddling financial markets and the broader economy with higher long-term borrowing costs.For...
Trump Threatens Tariffs Over ‘Unfair’ Digital Taxes
US President Donald Trump has once again reached for his favourite blunt instrument: tariffs. This time, the United States is threatening new levies and export...
Trump Fires Fed Governor Cook, threatening FED Independence
Donald Trump has decided to sack Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over allegations she falsified mortgage documents, a dramatic escalation in his long-running crusade to...