In 90 days, Trump must sign 150 trade agreements. The financial markets don’t like it.

According to President Donald Trump and his advisers, this was always the plan: scare the world with extremely high tariffs, get countries to negotiate, and, with the exception of China, remove the most severe trade barriers as the United States negotiates new global trade agreements. However,Trump’s administration only has three months to negotiate extremely complex […]

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Investors in the midst of tariff chaos: “It’s the fastest finger first.”

As a former champion runner, Richard McDonald can move quickly for investors. But Donald Trump’s announcement of broad global tariffs last week sped up the market falls, keeping him on his toes. Previously a trader for Credit Suisse, he now buys and sells stocks privately. At his laptop in London last week, he watched as […]

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Elon Musk labels Trump trade adviser 'moron' over Tesla comments

Elon Musk labels Trump trade adviser ‘moron’ over Tesla comments

In response to remarks that Peter Navarro, the trade adviser to President Donald Trump, made regarding Tesla, Elon Musk has referred to Navarro as a “moron.” Musk – who is also a member of the Trump administration – said Navarro was “dumber than a sack of bricks” in posts on his social media platform X. […]

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Trump has turned his back on the foundation of US economic might – the fallout will be messy

Trump thinks that everyone else will pay for the second wall he has constructed. However, his decision to levy sweeping tariffs of at least 10% on almost every product that enters the United States is, in essence, a wall constructed to prevent immigrants from entering the country and keeping jobs and work there. It is […]

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