Trump and academia
In the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election, Republican candidate Donald Trump would often complain about how some of America’s top universities were playing a leading role in pro-Palestine…
Markets wrestle with Trump’s unconventional debt ideas
Investors are weighing whether Donald Trump might turn to unconventional ideas to try to bring the ballooning US debt under control, after the president insisted he won’t cut popular health…
Trump Trade in retreat?
It’s still early days, of course, but it seems the so-called Trump Trade is already unraveling, and with it, many of the assumptions that shaped global markets over the past…
Investors say it’s time to take Trump seriously as markets recoil
Markets no longer think Donald Trump is full of bluster and are moving quickly to anticipate a slowdown in US and global growth as he raises a wall of tariffs…
India & Trump 2.0
THE recent Modi-Trump meeting ended with many predictable outcomes and a few surprise announcements. The predictable outcomes include the India-US willingness to cooperate on strategic affairs and mitigate irritants related to economic…
Trump, at zenith of power, moves quickly to ‘take over’ Washington
Donald Trump has been in office for five days, and yet he has already imposed his will on Washington with ruthless speed and efficiency, showing that even his most radical…
Trump’s tariff tantrums
US President Donald Trump announced 25 per cent tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum imports on February 10, doubling down on his protectionist agenda to ‘boost’ the US economy through…
Trump and Pakistan
With Donald Trump assuming the presidency, the world order appears to be undergoing a seismic shift, with the US dismantling its foreign interference apparatuses – such as USAID – while…
The Trump doctrine: trade wars and tensions
The slew of political and economic measures announced by the Trump Administration has created an impression that the world is returning to an era of an insane protectionism and intense…
The coming Trumpistan
It has come around again: the baring of American imperial fangs, rule by executive orders, ‘America First’, callous pandering to the extreme-right, tariff threats, a transactional Manichean worldview, and the…
