The real reason Trump is waging a global trade war

Photo caption: Trump’s tax-cutting agenda is expected to cost some $1 trillion a year. Photo credit: Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg. Article by Melissa Lawford, The Telegraph. Yahoo News – February 16, 2025. Originally published by The Telegraph.

In the middle of Donald Trump’s tornado of tariff announcements, policy analysts have been clinging to a single hope. There is a perceived wisdom that the US president is using the higher charges primarily as a threat designed to extract concessions from his trading partners. Or in other words, that his bark will be worse than his bite. Trump certainly is […]

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