Augsburg: A Capitalist Hub at the Birth of the Modern
byBy Marcia Christoff-Kurapovna Beautiful Augsburg, city of bronzed doors and glory of the German Renaissance, occupies an unusual and mostly unknown position in the history…
Free Trade
Trump’s Protectionist Follies Threaten a Trade War
byPresident Donald Trump has announced the planned imposition of a new, 25 percent tariff on imported steel and a 10 percent tariff on foreign…
Trade wars
byAn overt trade war has commenced. President Trump has fired the starting gun, setting in motion an election promise, part of his Make America…
The Council on Foreign Relations Guide to the Steel Tariffs
byIntroduction In March 2018, President Donald J. Trump announced he will apply across-the-board tariffs, or import taxes, on steel and aluminum. Trump argues that…
Does President Trump really care about the US
byOn Thursday March 1, the Trump administration announced plans to impose 25% tariffs on imports of steel and 10% tariffs on imports of aluminium….
The truth about trade
byThe one subject, which became a headline issue last year, and even divides experts is trade. It will become increasingly important in 2018 as…
Trade and Protectionism post globalisation
byProtectionism is on the increase among developed nations The benefits of free-trade have been most evident in developing countries Short-term effects on financial markets…
Why free trade is officially dead
byG20 Finance ministers meeting in Baden Baden last weekend agreed, on America’s insistence, to drop the long-standing commitment to free trade from the final…
Rules-based, automatically-adjusting trade policy for freer trade
byA major contemporary worry is that threats of tariffs, preservation of subsidies and licensing and standards restrictions for imports and exports will derail any…
The Zero-Sum World of Donald Trump
byFew American presidential elections have drawn as much international interest and concern as the one in 2016. Certainly, who is elected and sits in…