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Alan Beattie

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How to stop Donald Trump exporting trade wars

Distortions from US tariffs need not be disastrous

23.01.2025 40

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The alarming contradictions awaiting Donald Trump’s dollar

Big tax cuts and tariff hikes will prevent any new Plaza Accord to manage currencies

16.01.2025 7

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Trump has limited powers to fight an economic cold war

The new president is not the man to shore up the US ‘economic security state’

09.01.2025 10

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Year in a word: Tariff

The incoming Trump administration is set to dust down a weapon from a bygone era

31.12.2024 3

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The wondrous gift of open trade is given

Flexible economies and free markets have kept globalisation going this year

19.12.2024 8

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The state intervention that’s not destroying trade

Governments are experimenting with industrial policy but tariffs are staying low

12.12.2024 5

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Tariff Man’s superpowers are weaker than he thinks

Donald Trump’s obsession with import taxes belies their limited effects

05.12.2024 4

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The contradictions of Trumponomics over tariffs lie exposed

This week is a sobering reminder of the uncertainties of US policy to come

28.11.2024 4

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The global green transition will survive Trump

Higher borrowing costs from tariffs and tax cuts will be the US’s main impact on carbon-saving investment worldwide

21.11.2024 3

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A crumbling system of trade rules awaits Trump’s wrecking ball

The new administration confronts a WTO already undermined by long-standing US disapproval

14.11.2024 10

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Trump’s tariff obsession is worse than before

Trying to close current account deficits with trade tools could cause serious damage

07.11.2024 20

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The internal rivalries that will determine Trump’s policies on trade

The Republican candidate’s first presidential term was marked by infighting in the administration

31.10.2024 4

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The magic pony of private finance fails to fund the global green transition

It’s unrealistic to imagine investors will massively increase their contribution to developing-country infrastructure

17.10.2024 10

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Why the US can’t impose its will over global trade in electric cars

The American market is too small to give Washington leverage over Chinese software in EVs

03.10.2024 20

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How supply chain superheroes have kept world trade flowing

The flat-pack furniture giant Ikea has successfully ridden the shocks of Covid and Ukraine

26.09.2024 7

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Australia’s exemplar for the world on building economic security

Despite interventionist industrial policy rhetoric, Canberra has maintained open trade and a market economy

19.09.2024 2

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Why the US can’t launch a green Marshall Plan

America’s lagging technology and protectionist trade policy hamper its global leadership

05.09.2024 3

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How open trade saved us from a global food crisis

Fears of an international hunger emergency after the Ukraine invasion proved unfounded

29.08.2024 3

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Kamala Harris remembers the consumer cost of worker-centred tariffs

The Democratic candidate makes a welcome attack on Donald Trump’s reckless trade plans

22.08.2024 4

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How Bidenomics will survive Biden’s departure

Kamala Harris won’t have much room to shift from industrial intervention and import tariffs

25.07.2024 2

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Why Brussels can’t see the deforestation for the trees

The EU’s international policies on climate, trade and development are incoherent

18.07.2024 1

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