Will tariffs trigger a new era of trade wars?

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

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“Two huge heavyweights” are in the ring. “I haven’t had so much fun since the ‘Thrilla in Manila’,” an unnamed former US official tells the Financial Times. The world’s two superpowers are squaring of

The run up to the Budget in November has already been dominated by headlines about a “meltdown” in the bond market and a yawning “£50bn” black hole that will have to be filled by more tax increases. S

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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