Anyone familiar with George Orwell’s 1984 will recognise its depiction of a fragmented world, where major economies operate as isolated, fortress-like islands, grouped into three geopolitical superstates: Oceania, Eurasia, and…
Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors around the world from the Trump administration. On April 22nd, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its forecasts…
BERLIN – US President Donald Trump’s misguided trade war against the rest of the world could mark the beginning of the end for both his political dominance and his “Make…
ITHACA – The timing could hardly have been less propitious. Just as the world economy was showing signs of stabilizing, the odds of a policy-induced global recession have risen significantly.…
Some would posit, “If you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything.” US president Donald Trump is not beholden to that epithet and neither is his vice-president JD “I…
It has been very rightly said that the arbitrary one-sided decisions on increasing tariffs by the USA is bad economics (it is also bad politics) that can cause avoidable turmoil…
The enhanced tariffs on imports of America announced by Donald Trump recently as second-term President of USA, resulted in turmoil in the economic world. Though they were aimed at Making…
ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every…
During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centred around a totally different issue, they…
Trump's attempt to pull USA out of the US laid post WWII economic order and instead take a path of isolationisn and economic protection, is perhaps the most systematic assault…
BRUSSELS – As part of his confrontational stance toward Europe, US President Donald Trump could end up weaponizing critical technologies. The European Union must appreciate the true nature of this…
Tariffs are dominating news, but of course there are several other important aspects of trade-related aggression. As has been increasingly seen in recent decades, particularly in the course of moving…
In a gathering if the most powerful person says the most absurd thing but says it in the loudest and most threatening way, then this voice may just succeed in…
A week after US President Trump launched his economic war against the world under the banner of so-called “reciprocal tariffs,” China will have a tariff of 104 percent imposed on…
After Trump came to power, the world tariff war has started. This tariff war has shaken the stock markets of the world including India. America itself is not untouched by…
As the political West struggles to maintain cohesion in what often resembles a dysfunctional marriage – one seemingly heading toward an inevitable divorce – events unfolding on the other side of the…
Our farmers for the last four years are waging relentless struggle for legal guarantee for crop MSPs and against corporate control of markets and their land. Imposition of Trump’s reciprocal…
Five countries in Central America, together with the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean, have a free trade agreement with Washington, but this didn’t protect them from the punitive tariffs announced…
Liberation Day, as April 2 was described by US President Donald Trump, had all the elements of reality television perversion. It also had a dreamy, aspirational hope: that factories would…
The imposition of the new US tariff regime unveiled by President Trump yesterday is a declaration of economic war against the rest of the world. It has been driven forward…
The New York Times yesterday (11 March 2025) headlined: “Trump Intensifies Statehood Threats in Attack on Canada.” What particularly stood out was the sub headline: “The U.S. president on Tuesday…
US President Trump’s imposition of a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, which came into effect on Tuesday, has sent a shock wave through the global economy…
A widely known caution advises people not to put all their eggs in one basket. An exemplar is Canada. Has Canada put too many of its eggs in its basket…
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