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Trump’s tariff boomerang
The current trade war as a result of Trump’s tariff policy is not truly global, and we should not be distracted by this from focusing on the real danger the US president poses in terms of democracy, social justice and human dignity the world over. https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2025/04/21/trumps-tariff-boomerang.html
‘We Don’t Need To Trade With Anyone,’ Republican Strategist Says On Trump’s Tariffs
In this episode of Global News Today, presented by Tom Burges Watson, we bring you full reaction to the global market plunge sparked by Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. European and Asian markets opened to a sea of red, with some indexes falling more than 10 percent in a single day. We’ll also have the latest […]
Trump Tariff Boomerang
Most trade pundits (and a few others) were shocked by the magnitude of Trump’s tariff announcements on 2nd April: a replica of McKinley’s famous US tariff wall of 1890, or of the Smoot-Hawley legislation of 1930. If there are lessons of history, these precedents are bad omens indeed. But this is not the only reason […]
Pascal Lamy Caixin Interview
What Trump wants to solve is the U.S. trade deficit, but it is not a problem of trade, but a problem of the U.S. macroeconomy, said Lamy. The U.S. has a structural trade deficit because it consumes more than it produces, but because the U.S. dollar is the world’s largest reserve currency, the U.S. can […]
Pascal Lamy : « Obnubilés par le show de Trump sur le commerce, nous oublions son agenda politique »
Cette semaine, nous accueillons Pascal Lamy, coordinateur des instituts Jacques Delors et ancien commissaire européen au Commerce. Il commente la guerre commerciale menée par les États-Unis et les défis à relever par l’UE dans ce contexte. Les multiples revirements de Donald Trump au sujet de l’augmentation des droits de douane effraient les marchés financiers mondiaux. Pascal Lamy, également […]
The EU can pinch the US without shooting itself in the foot: Ex-trade commissioner Lamy
Our guest is one of France’s most prominent commentators on European affairs and global trade issues. Pascal Lamy is coordinator of the Jacques Delors Institutes – named after the visionary of European integration whom Lamy worked with closely in the 1980s and 1990s. Lamy was EU trade commissioner in the early 2000s, and he served two […]
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