A global game of thrones begins

“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

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

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

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

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