When big trade partners become big tariff targets

Poor Donald Trump. There are two major parts to the US president’s political programme: tariffs and deportations. Both are in trouble with the law. Federal judges have blocked him from swiftly deporti

Last Friday, US president Donald Trump signed a proclamation entitled “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers”, stating that a new $100,000 fee will be imposed for H-1B visa applications

The dots appear to contradict one another, puzzling observers. How to connect them? Inflation over the last five years has been double the Federal Reserve’s target. Why then, does it cut its key lendi

The “good news” now being heralded by the US media and the administration: the take from tariffs surged to $31bn in August, setting new monthly high for 2025. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent s

engelsbergideas.com Trade conflict and coercion, protectionism and industrial policy, and broad definitions of national security are now increasingly familiar features of the fragmenting global order

President Donald Trump’s intervention in Cambodia’s clashes with Thailand plus other conflicts shows a global shift to arbitration via pure might