What to Know About Trump’s Deal With Intel
The United States is now the biggest shareholder in one of its biggest semiconductor companies. U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 22 that the U.S. government has taken a ...
Tag: Economics
Trump’s Economic Policy Is More Radical Than You Think
From the outset, one inescapable reality of U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has been its frenetic busyness. For those who support it, the sheer pace of Trump’s agenda has ...
As Trump’s Higher India Tariffs Go Into Effect, Oil Markets Shrug
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday followed through on so-called secondary tariffs of 25 percent on India to punish the country for buying large volumes of Russian crude oil. This ...
Trump’s Latest Attack on the Fed Is Cause for Alarm
U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest assault on the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and by extension the stability of the U.S. and global financial systems, came in his attempted ...
If Americans Are Lawyers and the Chinese Are Engineers, Who Is Going to Win?
The United States and China are constantly looking for a leg up in their rivalry for geopolitical primacy. But what if the real advantage lies in adopting a bit of ...
The Future of the Dollar Lies Within
Talk of the U.S. dollar can have a frustratingly abstract, near-mystical quality to it. Even putting aside the crypto crowd’s pseudo-philosophizing about the future of money, when most commentators speak ...
Switzerland Is Having an Economic Identity Crisis
It should have been a match made in heaven: Switzerland refines a third of the world’s gold supply; U.S. President Donald Trump, in his first six months in office, has ...
Why Has Korea’s Stock Market Gone Wild?
Since Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election on June 3, the Korean stock market has been on a tear. On June 2, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI)—the ...
China Is Worried About Dollar-Backed Stablecoins
The power to control access to money is no longer the exclusive privilege of the sovereign. Increasingly, the rules governing how money is created, moves, and is held are enforced ...
China Can’t Unify Its Own Markets
At Summer Davos, Chinese Premier Li Qiang dismissed Western claims that China is flooding the world with excess supply, quipping that China isn’t “stupid enough” to subsidize exports. That may ...
