Protectionism

SEOUL: Global airlines slashed a key industry profit forecast by 21per cent on Sunday amid concerns over an expanding trade war and higher oil prices. The International Air Transport Association, which represents about 290 carriers or more than 80 percent of…

Risk-off remains in play amid sluggish data, challenges to global trade and geopolitical worries. Sovereign bonds flash recession fears with an extended downturn. Asian stocks aptly portrayed gloomy market sentiment after the US President Donald Trump added…

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin On Thursday evening, President Trump announced that he would impose a 5% tariff on all goods imports from Mexico, beginning on June 10.  Under the plan, the tariffs would steadily rise …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is honored with an Honorary Doctorate of Laws Degree during the commencement of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 30, 2019 | CJ Gunther/EPA-EFE Angela Merkel urged Harvard graduates Thursday to tear down w…

Tweet … is the closing line of George Wills latest and excellent column, “The vast incoherence of President Tariff Man“: Protectionism is yet another example of government being the disease for which it pretends to be the cure. DBx: With his tariffs, Trump…

In 1999, I and a gaggle of other San Francisco internet founders and CEOs went to an airfield, where we browsed private jets. It made sense that, at 34, I should have a one-bedroom apartment to transport me across the surface of the atmosphere at mach .8, bec…

By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Provoking trade disputes is "naked economic terrorism", a senior Chinese diplomat said on Thursday, ramping up the rhetoric against the United States amid a bitter trade war that is showing no signs of ending soon. Trade…

Given recent developments in the use of Section 232 in steel, aluminum, possibly uranium and automobiles, as well as the increasingly expensive bailouts of the ag sector, it behooves us to see some earlier perspectives on the use of such protectionist and int…

Narendra Modi won the 2014 election with the slogan, minimum government, maximum governance. In practice, government intervention in the economy often increased and governance often worsened. Having won a landslide, Modi should return to his old slogan and ma…

Drake, of course, is no Raptors-fan-come-lately. Heres my colleague Sopan Deb on Drakes performances on the sidelines: I know he annoys many N.B.A. watchers. He has for a while, ever since he was named the Raptors global ambassador in 2013. Complex named Drak…