Wolf Richter: World Trade Skids for First Time Since Financial Crisis
Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.
Read more...Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.
Read more...Why the US and China are likely to remain at loggerheads.
Read more...Correcting misinformation about Hong Kong’s status sometimes bandied about by critics of its protestors.
Read more...Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.
Read more...The main driving issue is the realization by the Saudis that, irrespective of the reassuring rhetoric of Trump and Kushner, their bitter nemesis, Qatar, is far more important to the US than the rest of the conservative Arab monarchies and sheikhdoms of the GCC.
Read more...Yves here. It has been reported in venues like the Financial Times that importers who would face increased costs from tariffs on China were taking steps so as not to increase prices to customers, which includes making their suppliers give better prices and eating some costs too. With profit share at a record high level […]
Read more...China’s trend rates of growth are likely to be much lower than in the past, and even that is problematic. China will remain an important Asian player, not a dominant global force.
Read more...One way China could mess with the US.
Read more...A row Down Under as a prominent and well placed MP says some not-nice things about China.
Read more...Markets are in a tizzy over the US-China trade row. But what might come next?
Read more...China upsets its neighbors.
Read more...How the US has used its economic muscle to defend its hegemony and the rest of the world is looking to claw power back.
Read more...Turns out Trump was not all wrong in saying the dollar was overpriced.
Read more...An new working paper by Sebastian Horn, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch on China’s foreign lending has some important findings, such as that China accounts for more than 40% of the external debt of 50 developing countries. We’ve embedded the document at the end of this post. The study is an ambitious undertaking, seeking to […]
Read more...Why the US looks like it has a glass jaw.
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