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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 ...

china

inflation

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Xi’s Great Dilemma: Taiwan or the Economy March 27, 2025

A couple of days ago, President Trump dropped a little surprise during a press conference — he said senior Chinese officials are expected to visit the U.S. soon. Several media outlets even reported that Trump hinted Xi Jinping himself might visit Ame...

china

Germany’s Economy Needs a Radical Adjustment March 26, 2025

German dependence on China and its foolhardy energy policies have brought low what was once an economic colossus. With tariffs and cabinet instability on the horizon, its prospects are unlikely to improve. ...

Germany

Trump Imposes 25% Tariff on Countries Buying Venezuela Oil March 25, 2025

Americas

China Has Already Remade the International System March 25, 2025

In early February, as he flew in Air Force One above the body of water he’d recently renamed the Gulf of America, President Donald Trump declared that he would levy tariffs on all imported steel and aluminum. ...

china

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...

Reciprocal Tariffs Are Just What the U.S. Needs March 22, 2025

Reciprocal tariffs are coming soon. Many economists and trade experts are concerned that they may backfire on President Donald Trump. But if you take the politics out of the issue, reciprocal tariffs could be an important first step toward fixing lon...

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Ontario Premier Apologizes to Americans Amid Tariff War March 21, 2025

Americas

Senator Steve Daines (MT) Is Visiting Beijing as Tariff Fight Grows March 21, 2025

EU Pushes Back Tariff Response to Trump Duties March 21, 2025

Russia

South Korea Showing Tell-Tale Signs of Terminal Decline March 20, 2025

Sandwiched between China’s tech juggernaut and Trump’s tariffs, Korea’s political paralysis couldn’t come at a worse economic time ...

South Korea

Trump’s Tariffs Challenge India’s Economic Balance March 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have dominated headlines in India in recent weeks. Earlier this month, Trump announced that his reciprocal tariffs—matching other countries’ tariffs on American goods—will go into effect on 2 April, causing ...

tariffs

Canada Should Call Trump’s Bluff and Drop All of Its Tariffs March 20, 2025

We now appear to be in a full-fledged trade war with our closest ally and neighbor. ...

canada

A Trade War With Sinners on Both Sides March 19, 2025

Trump targeting allies doesn’t excuse the EU’s imposing new tariffs that taxpayers will have to bear, rather than addressing European protectionism. ...

Trump Calls Canada to Action March 19, 2025

The U.S. is beating up on Canada.The friendship between the U.S. and Canada is historic but has fallen into an inexplicable confrontation. Bizarrely, President Trump has proposed that a fellow member of the powerful Group of Seven major economic powe...

canada

Donald Trump

economics

Canada Is Limited in Matching Further U.S. Tariffs, Carney Says March 18, 2025

Americas

Liberal Dreams & Geopolitical Realities in Brussels March 18, 2025

Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House for a second term, the world of international relations has been upended by dramatic shifts in US foreign policy. Trump’s on-again-off-again threats of tariffs on allies and adversaries aside, the most s...

European Union

America’s Retreat Leaves a Leadership Void March 14, 2025

A shouting match with the Ukrainian president on live TV; tariffs hammering allies; talk of annexing Canada; NATO, once a pillar of stability, now caught in a storm of doubt; the U.S. standing with Belarus and North Korea in refusing to condemn Mosco...

United States

Is Canada Doing Enough To Stop the U.S. Trade War? March 14, 2025

There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and the US is beginning to look like a case in point. ...

Antitrust Fuels Trade Tensions March 14, 2025

President Donald Trump’s tariff threats target “discrimination against American innovation,” and US legislators point to the EU’s Digital Markets Act as evidence – even as the US pursues its own tech antitrust cases. ...

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...

Walmart Feels the Heat in China After Trump Imposes Tariffs March 13, 2025

Trump Threatens To Put 200% Tariff on French Champagne March 13, 2025

Russia

U.S.-Saudi Cooperation Could Fortify Critical Mineral Supply Chains. March 13, 2025

President Trump returned to office facing a weakened defense industrial base, strained by the Ukraine war and threatened by China’s grip on critical inputs. Dependence on competitors like China for materials that power essential commercial and milita...

The Incoherent Case for Tariffs March 13, 2025

Less than two months into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump has made good—with startling intensity—on his campaign promise to impose tariffs. ...

tariffs

economics