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Trump Builds Tariff Walls, Xi Sells Through the Windows

President Xi Jinping’s export machine has ploughed through five months of Trump’s eye-watering tariffs and somehow still delivered a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. Restrict...

The Great Tariff Reboot: Old Ideas, New Damage

Donald Trump’s radical new tariff regime officially kicked in this week, marking yet another act in his headline-grabbing, trade-remoulding drama.After months of policy whiplash, the...

China’s Export Engine Sputters – and Guess Who Gets the Blame

China’s exports rose last month, just not quite enough to please economists, who were hoping for 6% growth and instead got a slightly underwhelming 5%....

Trump’s Tariff: The World Slows, the US Suffers – OECD Blames the Obvious

It appears President Trump’s all-American economic bravado is having global consequences. According to the OECD — that unassuming Paris-based bunch with a knack for numbers...

Trump Delays Tariff Blitz on the EU

President Donald Trump has graciously extended the deadline for his 50% tariff barrage on the European Union — now rescheduled for 9 July — following...

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,...

Don’t Count on the Fed to Rescue The US economy

Trump’s full-frontal assault on free trade is nothing short of breathtaking—for its scope, its scale, and its wilful lack of nuance. The average tariff is...

Trump’s Tariff Crusade: When Protectionism Dresses Up as Patriotism

For a fleeting moment, Wall Street dared to hope that President Donald Trump’s tariff threats were little more than theatrical posturing. Then came Wednesday’s Rose...

Trump’s Economic Gamble: Tariffs, Debt, and a Dose of Wishful Thinking

President Donald Trump has finally set his grand economic experiment in motion, imposing sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China while reassuring the American public...

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