As we conclude 2025, during which my blog at least celebrated 25 years of the 21st century through innovations, it is time to cast our mind to the new year and what it might bring. 2025 will be remembered as the year that unleashed a tariff and trade war between the US and almost every… Continue reading The Economic Effects of Far-Right Politics, Ten Years On
It’s been a long time coming. From Trump’s first term in office as US President, when he waged a tariff and trade war targeted primarily at China, the world has been in a tread-and-trade-carefully mode. Now that he is back for his second term, he is doubling down on his unfinished agenda, of taking the… Continue reading What the Post Trump-Tariff World Economic Order Looks Like
If many of us thought that Trump’s first term was chaotic and polarizing, we are already beginning to see what Trump 2.0 is going to be like. With his campaign rhetoric of Making America Great Again and America First at his swearing in ceremony at the start of his first term, he had painted this… Continue reading How Should Countries Respond to Trump’s Tariffs?
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