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What can private equity firms do in this volatile market? Seemingly nothing. Even with a tariff reprieve, barriers to buying and selling assets...
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To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . 104% it is. At the time of writing (midnight in New York), the...
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Never let a good crisis go to waste is an adage Europe could use now. As it stares down the barrel of a loaded gun from Donald Trump, the region...
President Trump’s tariffs look to bring investment and production back to the US. Some manufacturers will do so, as they vie to sell to America’s...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says tariffs don’t cause inflation. “Tariffs are a one-time price adjustment,” he said Sunday on Meet the...
A bleak scenario is unfolding for the Federal Reserve. By imposing unexpectedly high, comprehensive tariffs on US imports, the White House is...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a tiny spread of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here. I dunno, slapping a 104% tariff on a country that you...
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It’s easy to think that the Jerome Powell-led Federal Reserve has been one of the unluckiest on record. From the 2020 pandemic and its messy...
The trillions of dollars shed by markets in recent days should be ample proof of the foolishness of the White House’s tariff strategy. The costs of...
Donald Trump has set about breaking the post-1945 trading system. He’s also remaking who rules the airwaves, and central banks have been pushed into...
Wall Street is freaking out. Main Street isn’t exactly anxiety-free, either. The concern is justified. President Donald Trump has imposed import...
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes — take Saudi Arabia pushing OPEC to boost production, seemingly to humble cartel cheaters. If it...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Global markets underwent a seismic response to last Wednesday’s...
Six months before World War II ended in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to his top science adviser. Could the wealth of...
The US is the closest thing to a global superpower we have. And that means when its leaders are in the grip of excessive overconfidence — similar...
To get John Authers’ newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Call it Manic Monday. The US stock market started with another...
President Donald Trump has said his reciprocal tariff policy was meant to stand up for the American worker, whom he portrayed as the victim of a...
A common maxim of trade wars is that the best retaliation is not to retaliate at all. Such conflicts, after all, are counterproductive in the first...
President Donald Trump’s tariffs are getting two thumbs down from pretty much everyone, including a few brave Republicans in Congress, but there is...
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When President Donald Trump was inaugurated, the US economy was the envy of the world, having managed an unmatched post-Covid comeback. Now, the...
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China has an opportunity to act as an elder statesman, thanks to the spectacular own goals of Donald Trump’s tariffs. Usually cast as a disruptor...
President Trump’s mad trade war is all about goods, but financial services are also suffering from the White House’s arbitrary global tariffs. Bank...