Trade
Trump was right to threaten Mexico with tariffs
A (North) America First policy
Could a global recession be around the corner?
The omens for the economy are not good
Trump’s Mexican tariffs could wipe out his 2017 tax cut
Why sign a free trade agreement if Trump is intent on subverting it before it’s even been approved?
Trump: I’ll ‘go all out’ to offer a trade deal if Brexit talks fail
‘We could work on it very, very quickly’
Donald Trump’s one-front trade war
Like the military, Trump can only take on one major tariff target at a time
How I learned to stop worrying and love Trump’s trade war
China’s importance to domestic US industry has been exaggerated
Our real problem with China: Xi Jinping
He is the global leader of opposition to the US position in international politics
The future of world trade is in the balance
US-China trade talks approach a crisis
A booming economy makes Trump look wiser than his detractors
It is going to take a hell of a heave for a Democrat to push him out of the White House
Will Donald Trump tackle the vampire squid?
Goldman Sachs has a long history of being deeply enmeshed in crises around the world
Is the Fed caving to the demands of the market?
Distant thunder rumbles when ‘recession’ creeps back into America’s vocabulary
The rise and rise of the daddy big bucks candidate
Billionaire presidential campaigns are a great excuse for political consultants to try and flatter super-rich men
Leading Brexiteers in DC to talk US-UK free trade agreement
As Theresa May’s government crumbles, David Davis and Owen Paterson make their move
Peter Navarro slams Wall Streeters as ‘foreign agents’ hindering the White House
Factionalism within the White House itself and in-fighting over Washington’s China policy was on full display
The failure of globalization and the return of inflation
Globalists beware: inflation is a tax on the poor
The real problem with the Saudis’ ‘Davos in the Desert’
One Davos was almost certainly one too many. But the multiplication of forums for the global elite is getting out of hand
Women don’t need big government’s help to climb the corporate ladder
Jerry Brown may think he’s giving women a helping hand. But women are not children
No, Donald Trump’s climate policies aren’t going to ‘boil the planet’
With enemies as unhinged as this, who needs friends?
Donald Trump’s US-Canada-Mexico trade deal is YUGE
No matter what you hear, American workers have always been at the forefront of President Trump’s mind, and this deal will be good for them
Trump’s new trade deal with Canada and Mexico shouldn’t surprise you
He is a disruptor, a practitioner of creative destruction. And he works fast, with little delay between the destruction and the reconstruction phase
How the Occupy movement saved Wall Street
By widening their focus to all rich people, the protesters let the bankers off the hook
Seeing red: where did all the deficit-cutting Republicans go?
None of the usual arguments made to justify deficit spending apply
Adam Smith would have approved of Trump’s trade tariffs
Was the USA ever really in favour of free trade?
How China sees the trade war
Beijing will seek friends in defence of globalisation and the other mantras Xi likes to unroll
The Trump economy, like Obama’s, is a big, fat, ugly bubble
If the Democratic party were smart, or genuine, they would be going after the lies underlying today’s boom
