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Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy

A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality

Even priests need the free market

What clergymen can learn from economists

Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th c...

The president jacks up tariffs on all countries, with particularly sharp rises f...

The American government’s accidental private-credit sub...

How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze

What a refugee camp reveals about economics

In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month

Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom

Prized and in short supply, its price is very volatile

How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out

He offers the only way out of a supremely difficult situation

What America’s stockmarket plunge means

Farewell to 15 years of exceptionalism?

Financial markets flail in the face of America’s tariffs

Asia is hit hardest, but nowhere looks good

China hits back hard against Trump’s tariffs

Stockmarkets plunge further in response

How worrying is the weakening dollar?

In times of trouble, the greenback normally strengthens

Trump has exposed America’s world-leading firms to reta...

At companies from Alphabet to Goldman Sachs, bosses will be holding their breath

Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe 

Saint Pierre and Miquelon earns a dubious honour 

Where real danger might lurk in chaotic markets

The worry is that wild swings could cause their own damage

Market carnage goes global

As stockmarkets plunge, Donald Trump seems untroubled. That is scary

Trump’s trade war threatens a global recession

Investors are worried. At least the economy is starting from a position of strength

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