What just happened? On 28 May, the US Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a permanent injunction blocking President Trump’s recently imposed “Liberation Day” tariffs – a 10% across-the-board levy on all imported goods and higher “reciprocal”…
The tariffs announced two weeks ago by President Trump kicked in last week and survived contact with reality in their original form for about twelve hours. Had they persisted –…
There have been many articles written about what President Trump or presidential candidate Joe Biden might do for international trade, but there have been few conversations about what impacts their…
Throughout history, after prolonged periods of austerity, populist politicians have sought to divide and conquer vulnerable and bruised societies with nationalist policies. These often vilify immigrants and attribute the economic…
