Tariff Tantrums and Global Manufacturing: The Art of Economic Destruction
This week brought yet another pile of smoking evidence that President Donald Trump’s trade war is doing precisely what trade wars do best: sowing chaos,...
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Trump’s Trade War Escalation: A Policy for Disaster
President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to hammer Canada and Mexico with hefty import tariffs while doubling down on China, effectively dragging...
Trump’s Tariff Roulette: A High-Stakes Gamble with Global Trade
Donald Trump is at it again, threatening to impose sweeping 25% tariffs on automobile, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical imports, with a formal announcement as early as...
Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: A Recipe for Economic Mayhem
In yet another grand display of economic illiteracy disguised as bold leadership, Donald Trump has declared a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminium imports,...
Trump’s Tariff Gamble: A Fast Track to Global Economic Chaos
China wasted no time in firing back at Donald Trump’s latest tariff tantrum, slapping duties on a range of American goods and launching an antitrust...
The crisis in the Middle East: a risk to the global economy?
Like past wars in the Middle East, the conflict between Israel and Hamas that erupted last week could potentially disrupt the global economy and even...
China is more important than ever
China’s economy was expected to drive a third of the world’s economic growth this year, which is why its dramatic slowdown in recent months is...
The market is still dreaming
After the onset of a crisis, a certain degree of volatility usually persists, reflecting investors’ nervousness. American regional banks have not seen significant rebounds, as...
Americans are losing the strategic semiconductor war
China’s chip industry is growing faster than anywhere else in the world after US sanctions on local champions ranging from Huawei Technologies to Hikvision spurred...