Protectionism

Hitesh Jain Sluggish economic growth and lower inflationary expectations have yet again compelled central banks to contemplate at another monetary easing in the form of rate cuts and asset purchases. Absurdly low interest rates (read negative bond yields) r…

NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar has cancelled his upcoming visit to Brazil for the BRICS Foreign Ministers’ meet amid the uproar over US President Donald Trump’s offer to mediate on Kashmir and the possibility that pending bills in the Rajya…

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BENGALURU: The employee cost of fresh campus recruits in the United States is about the same as IT professionals sent on work visas from India, Wipro said. They are also faster to deploy and require shorter training time than tech workers from India, said th…

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan stands ready to take all possible steps flexibly and without hesitation when downside risks to the economy emerge, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, as a simmering Sino-U.S. trade war clouds the outlook for the export-reliant economy. …

Mr. McKinney: Unpersuaded by my earlier letter critical of Steve Moores reasons for supporting Trumps tariffs you ask for another example of how stumbled in his logic. Im happy to oblige. Before I do, I add, for the record, that during the debate St…

The combination of American trade protectionism and the end of a failing credit expansion is leading into a global economic downturn, and potentially a systemic crisis. Meanwhile, investors still believe more extreme monetary policies will stabilise economies…

BEIJING: China has said it values India's concerns on the bilateral trade imbalance and is willing to discuss new approaches to address the issue and asked New Delhi to join Beijing in its fight against "unilateralism and protectionism" amidst a bruising trad…

Delta No Shows Meeting With the President, Offends Trump

The fear that domestic firms will be outcompeted by subsidized foreign producers is not a sufficient argument for a government to prevent its own citizens from making their own import deals. Whatever harm is thereby caused domestically, such as loss of jobs, …