7 d. ago Nigel Farage hurls brutal insult at pal Donald Trump by comparing him to Liz Truss

Nigel Farage compared the wrecking ball President to the wrecking ball Prime Minister in a brutal response to this pal's tariff policy

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7 d. ago What is market manipulation? ‘Pump and dump’ explained after Trump’s tariff U

Democrats have leveled serious accusations at the president after his abrupt trade war change

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8 d. ago Apocalyptic warning about economic meltdown that forced Trump's hand on tariffs... NOT any 'art of the deal'

A Fox Business finance guru has explained why President Trump 'capitulated' on his sweeping tariff plans and had no choice but to U-turn. 

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9 d. ago What is a Panican? Donald Trump’s newest insult explained amid tariff backlash

As many Americans worry about their financial future, the president urges, ‘Don’t be Weak! Don’t be Stupid! Don’t be a PANICAN’

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9 d. ago Spare a thought for the poor billionaires who backed Trump — and hate tariffs | Marina Hyde

As the great American self-own rages on, the super-rich are beginning to break rank. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s gone suspiciously quietTrade Wars, Episode V: The Empire Shoots Itself in the Foot. As the world financial markets fail to appreciate his genius, tariff-excreting president Donald Trump has explained it all away by stating that “sometimes you have to take medicine”. Why am I reminded of the bit in Covid where he appeared to suggest that disinfectant could helpfully be injected into the lungs? I guess that was just science, same as this tariffs plan is just economics.Even so, can it really still be less than a week since a Wall Street Journal poll found 77% of US Republicans thought tariffs would have a positive impact? Ah well. Famously, the American people have a great tolerance for pain. If only one of their kindly gazillionare firms could come up with some sort of financial opioid epidemic to take the edge off the coming agonies.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue ...

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9 d. ago Voices: Don’t ‘Panican’! Republicans are finally waking up to Donald Trump

As the US president coins a new term for the growing army of critics speaking out about his tariffs policy, Sean O’Grady says that ‘Panicans’ everywhere should rise up and wear the label with pride – ideally, on red baseball caps

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1 week ago Voices: How Trump’s ‘Panican’ jibe at his tariff critics could backfire

The US president responded to a growing backlash from critics of his tariffs by claiming are members of a new ‘weak and stupid’ party. Simon Walters argues that the ‘Panicans’ will be proven right

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1 week ago What is a 'Panican'? Donald Trump coins new term amid trade war turmoil

As stock market losses continue to be felt across the US, President Donald Trump is urging Americans not to be “Panicans”

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1 week ago Trump officials struggle to explain tariff strategy but claim Americans won’t feel ‘big effect’

Agriculture secretary dodges questions about Heard and McDonald Islands but tells Americans not to fear tariff effects

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2 w. ago Why does Trump’s tariff explainer reference a paper it doesn't cite?

Yes, we checked the references

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2 w. ago Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ imperils the world’s broken economy – and him | Martin Kettle

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to championIt would be “liberation day” in the US, the White House announced. Well, we shall see. Yet even if one puts the noise and nastiness that accompany a Donald Trump announcement to one side – in this case tonight’s pronouncement that there will be an executive order announcing “reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world”, a 10% tariff on the UK and 20% on the EU – the significance of the theatre is hard to miss. Whether they presage the US’s liberation, or instead the disintegration of the global trading order, Trump’s tariffs add up to an attempt to transform a badly broken economic model. And that is something that affects us all.Trump’s announcement was awash with insult and rambling nonsense. The rest of the world had looted, raped and pillaged, had scavenged and ransacked America – shocking claims if they had come from any othe...

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2 w. ago Perilous and chaotic, Trump’s ‘liberation day’ endangers the world’s broken economy – and him | Martin Kettle

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to championIt would be “liberation day” in the US, the White House announced. Well, we shall see. Yet even if one puts the noise and nastiness that accompany a Donald Trump announcement to one side – in this case tonight’s pronouncement that there will be an executive order announcing “reciprocal tariffs on countries throughout the world”, a 10% tariff on the UK and 20% on the EU – the significance of the theatre is hard to miss. Whether they presage the US’s liberation, or instead the disintegration of the global trading order, Trump’s tariffs add up to an attempt to transform a badly broken economic model. And that is something that affects us all.Trump’s announcement was awash with insult and rambling nonsense. The rest of the world had looted, raped and pillaged, had scavenged and ransacked America – shocking claims if they had come from any othe...

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2 w. ago 7 unhinged things Donald Trump's team did in 24 hours as JD Vance doesn't rule out an invasion

Donald Trump sent JD Vance to Greenland to insult them - and he wouldn't rule out using the military to take the island by force - and he didn't even wear a tie

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