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The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst...

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WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst...

previous day 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst...

previous day 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst...

previous day 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors

Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.

wednesday 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors

Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.

wednesday 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors

Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.

wednesday 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The MAGA crew is waving white flags towards the Fed, China and Tesla investors

Tuesday wasn’t a great day for Donald Trump and his MAGA mates. But it was a great day for financial markets.

wednesday 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the...

22.04.2025 8

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the...

22.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the...

22.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the...

22.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right.

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

21.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right.

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

21.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right.

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

21.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right.

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

21.04.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That...

17.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That...

17.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That...

17.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

Jerome Powell says Trump’s tariffs are a threat to inflation and jobs

The US Federal Reserve Board’s usually cautious chairman says Trump’s tariffs will lead to higher inflation and lower US economic growth. That...

17.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China has told its domestic airlines not to order Boeing planes or US parts. That will hurt America’s biggest exporter of manufactured goods and...

16.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China has told its domestic airlines not to order Boeing planes or US parts. That will hurt America’s biggest exporter of manufactured goods and...

16.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China has told its domestic airlines not to order Boeing planes or US parts. That will hurt America’s biggest exporter of manufactured goods and...

16.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China’s risky move to ban Boeing’s planes

China has told its domestic airlines not to order Boeing planes or US parts. That will hurt America’s biggest exporter of manufactured goods and...

16.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistency, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is...

14.04.2025 8

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistency, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is...

14.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistently, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is...

14.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

The contradictions in Trump’s trade policies are on display

Donald Trump’s exemption of electronic goods from his tariffs highlights the inconsistently, lack of logic and the risks for the US in the way he is...

14.04.2025 9

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Mad king’ Trump was facing a financial crisis, so he capitulated

There were desperate efforts from the White House staff to spin Trump’s backdown as the latest example of his deal-making genius. But surprisingly,...

10.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Mad king’ Trump was facing a financial crisis, so he capitulated

There were desperate efforts from the White House staff to spin Trump’s backdown as the latest example of his deal-making genius. But surprisingly,...

10.04.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Mad king’ Trump was facing a financial crisis, so he capitulated

There were desperate efforts from the White House staff to spin Trump’s backdown as the latest example of his deal-making genius. But surprisingly,...

10.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

‘Mad king’ Trump was facing a financial crisis, so he capitulated

There were desperate efforts from the White House staff to spin Trump’s backdown as the latest example of his deal-making genius. But surprisingly,...

10.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Fed chair Jerome Powell has, not for the first time, found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.

09.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Fed chair Jerome Powell has, not for the first time, found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.

09.04.2025 9

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Fed chair Jerome Powell has, not for the first time, found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.

09.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Trump is making life very difficult for an old enemy

Fed chair Jerome Powell has, not for the first time, found himself between a rock and a hard place. It didn’t have to be like this.

09.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime

Donald Trump has threatened China with another 50 per centage point increase in tariffs unless it removes its own tariffs on US exports. That’s not...

08.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime

Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime

Donald Trump has threatened China with another 50 per centage point increase in tariffs unless it removes its own tariffs on US exports. That’s not...

08.04.2025 10

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime

Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime

Donald Trump has threatened China with another 50 per centage point increase in tariffs unless it removes its own tariffs on US exports. That’s not...

08.04.2025 30

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Why back down? China’s Xi will only get one Trump in his lifetime

Donald Trump has threatened China with another 50 per centage point increase in tariffs unless it removes its own tariffs on US exports. That’s not...

08.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

The ways markets are reacting to Trump’s tariffs paint a very threatening picture of the outlook for the US and the world.

07.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

The ways markets are reacting to Trump’s tariffs paint a very threatening picture of the outlook for the US and the world.

07.04.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We may be about to find out

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We may be about to find out

The ways markets are reacting to Trump’s tariffs paint a very threatening picture of the outlook for the US and the world.

07.04.2025 10

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

Is Trump sending America into a financial crisis? We’re about to find out

The ways markets are reacting to Trump’s tariffs paint a very threatening picture of the outlook for the US and the world.

07.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

03.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

03.04.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

03.04.2025 30

The Age

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Donald Trump’s dumb war just got much, much dumber

Donald Trump has just announced the most self-destructive set of policies in modern American economic history.

03.04.2025 10

Brisbane Times

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk just had his own Liberation Day

The merger of social media platform X with Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI will allow him, his co-investors and X’s banks to exit the...

02.04.2025 10

WA Today

Stephen Bartholomeusz

Elon Musk just had his own Liberation Day

The merger of social media platform X with Musk’s artificial intelligence start-up xAI will allow him, his co-investors and X’s banks to exit the...

02.04.2025 20

The Sydney Morning Herald

Stephen Bartholomeusz