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Trump Mulls Tariffs on UK Amid Trade Deficit Disputes, Seeks Negotiations
28.2.2025
As of Feb. 28, 2025, reports say U.S. President Donald Trump is considering tariffs on the United Kingdom as part of his broader trade policy agenda, though no definitive measures have been enacted. Tariff Threat Looms Over UK as Trump Pushes Aggressive Trade Agenda President Trump has prioritized...
Trump, Tariffs, and Turmoil, Oh My!
16.2.2025
The mere announcement of Trump’s tariffs last week triggered billions in liquidations across the crypto market, reinforcing the sector’s heightened sensitivity to political risk. This editorial is from last week’s edition of the Week in Review newsletter. Subscribe to the weekly newsletter to...
The Death of the Penny: Trump Orders U.S. Treasury to Stop Minting One-Cent Coins
11.2.2025
President Trump stresses that producing the penny is “wasteful,” given that it costs more to produce than the coin’s face value. The U.S. Mint lost over $85.3 million in the last fiscal year from coining pennies. The Penny’s End? Trump Orders the Elimination of...
The Myth of Trump’s ‘Painless’ Revenue: How Taxes and Tariffs Both Betray Free Market Principles
2.2.2025
Since Donald Trump was sworn in, debate has intensified over replacing income tax with tariffs—a tactic free market purists contend is simply another form of economic interference—prompting this editorial to explain why tariffs are considered unworkable and to explore alternative funding methods...
Lavrov Says He Agrees With Donald Trump on US Sanctions Weakening Dollar’s Status
23.9.2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has backed former U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks about the negative effects of U.S. sanctions on the dollar and the American economy. Lavrov agreed that sanctions imposed by the Biden administration have weakened the dollar’s global reserve...
Trump Promises to Embrace ‘Industries of the Future’ Including Crypto, AI
5.9.2024
Donald Trump reiterated his promise to make the U.S. the crypto capital of the world if re-elected president during public remarks Thursday
Kamala Harris on Trump, Economy Vision, and 2024 Election Strategy
30.8.2024
Kamala Harris recently sat down with CNN’s Dana Bash for an interview covering a wide range of topics…
Donald Trump Warns of Stock Market Crash and Great Depression if He Doesn’t Win Presidential Election
2.1.2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. could face a stock market crash worse than that of 1929 and a Great Depression if he doesn’t win the upcoming presidential election. He stressed that the U.S. economy is “terrible” and inflation over the past three...
Former US President Donald Trump Warns of Economic Depression if He’s Not Elected
20.7.2023
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has warned that the U.S. economy will face “more than a recession” if he is not elected president. Trump also made several other promises, including getting Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to make a deal with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr...
Trump delays stimulus, Bitcoin dumps shortly thereafter
6.10.2020
Bitcoin's correlation with traditional markets appears to continue
Trump Predicts US Economy to Recover by 2021 — Fed Chair, Economists Disagree
7.6.2020
President Donald Trump has predicted that the US economy will recover by 2021, citing new jobs data released by the Labor Department which contains a “misclassification error.” Officials say the numbers are artificially low, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and several...