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 ...

A TRADE AGREEMENT has finally been reached between American and European leaders. Vehicles exported from the EU to the US will be hit with a 15% tariff, with those going the other way billed just 2.5%

“I keep reading that Donald Trump is an economic genius,” says Matthew Hennessey in The Wall Street Journal. The story goes that the “punishing recession prophesied by the priests of the economic reli

The “global rollercoaster ride” of America’s trade war ...

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