Calling time on free trade

“The dollar is the cornerstone of US power… it is the main weapon used by the US to maintain its power… [But] as soon as the political leadership decided to use the US dollar as a political instrument

“Perhaps he’ll do an Elvis and have a fatal heart attack on the loo,” a friend muttered this week. Like most investors, she is having trouble getting used to the idea that the US president has become

Is Europe’s 80-year-old alliance with America doomed? asks Michael Shear in The New York Times. US president Donald Trump’s threats of 25% tariffs on a slew of European nations, including the UK, for

LETTERS

The Board of Peace Controversy of the week ...

EVEN THE CANADIANS ARE DRAWING up plans for how they might respond to a U.S. invasion. That’s how spooked global leaders are right now about an unhinged flare of contempt from their typically allied c