Europe chickens out of tariff war

The EU-US trade deal agreed last Sunday was “grossly lopsided”, says Paul Taylor in The Guardian. The 15% across-the-board tariff rate European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen ended up accep

Issue of the week: Europe’s capitulation Trump’s ...

We were probably wrong about tariffs. Yes, of course, they were always a bad idea and still are. Anything that interferes with our ability to freely trade with each other will make us poorer, with les

When a president uses his office to launch a cryptocurrency, it is clear that his modus operandi is to part people from their money. Apply this analysis to the global stage, tune out the furore over h

A lot of investors have been “hiding in European stocks this year” as a “safe haven” from turmoil caused by Donald Trump, says Dan Coatsworth of AJ Bell. They’ve now received “a short, sharp shock” –

Matthew Partridge: In your new book, The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World, you posit that president Donald Trump’s threats over tariffs are real, rather than a