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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

“We’ll have a majority [on the Federal Reserve Board] very shortly… People are paying too high an interest rate… We have to get the rates down a little bit,” says Donald Trump. The US president isn’t

Since World War II, the two landmark events in the evolution of money were Bretton Woods in 1944, when the dollar became the de facto global reserve currency, and then the Nixon Shock of 1971, when th

The “good news” now being heralded by the US media and the administration: the take from tariffs surged to $31bn in August, setting new monthly high for 2025. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent s