This week the US imposed new tariffs on many of the world. The FT’s US nationwide editor Ed Luce joins us to research why they’re baffling economists and worrying markets. Ed’s take? The US is taking itself out of the globalised financial system it constructed, and the results may very well be grave.
Talked about on this podcast:
Donald Trump’s beautiful trade war
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