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Asian Calm Before Trump’s Inflationary Storm March 27, 2025

Asian inflation muted while U.S. rate flares but it’s only a matter of time before Trump’s tariffs wreak price havoc everywhere ...

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The Quid Pro Quo for Peace in Ukraine March 22, 2025

President Trump promises a rapprochement with Russia to end the war in Ukraine. Before we dismiss this as a pipedream, we should understand the options that Trump has in dealing with President Putin. What will be the quid pro quo for peace in Ukraine...

Trump’s New Tariff War Is Radically Rational March 14, 2025

Investors are panicking. Conservatives are perplexed. By tearing up free trade orthodoxy, and hitting allies with tariffs, Donald Trump appears to be fuelling inflation at the very moment when unemployment is on the rise – rejecting every metric of s...

Japan’s Wholesale Inflation Hits 4%, Keeps BOJ Rate-Hike Bets Alive March 12, 2025

Trump’s Dirty Tricks Were Tried in Argentina First March 12, 2025

Even before President Javier Milei gifted the Boer billionaire a chain saw onstage at February’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the US right has long been fascinated by this country’s cherub-faced caudillo. ...

Broken Promises and Their Consequences March 04, 2025

More than three decades after the Cold War ended, the United States continues to treat Russia as an existential enemy rather than a potential partner. This hostility, deeply embedded in Washington’s foreign policy establishment, is not just ideologic...