Trump’s ‘Red Meat’ SOTU Speech US Political Crisis Now Deepens
By Jack Rasmus
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, Donald Trump delivered a State of the Union speech that revealed his election 2020 strategy, designed to...
2019 Scorecard: The Trump Effect on Future International Business Disputes
By Charles H. Camp and Kiran Nasir Gore
President Trump is now three-fourths through his initial term as U.S. President. Between the U.S. House of...
Trump’s Feeble Phase 1 China-US Trade Deal
By Dr. Jack Rasmus
With the announcement today, January 16, 2020 of the signing of the US-China Phase 1 ‘mini’ trade deal, and the US...
The Story of Trump’s Perilous Iran Escalation
By Dan Steinbock
The Trump assassination of major general Qasem Soleimani reflects regime change efforts - withdrawal from Iran nuclear deal, new...
Trump Impeachment: A Pointless Charade?
We all knew this day was coming, and now it's finally arrived, it feels a little like an anti-climax. Donald J. Trump has become...
Trump-Pelosi Trade Maneuvers: USMCA, China Tariffs, & Brazil-Argentina Steel
By Jack Rasmus
Today the Trump administration, with Democrats & AFLCIO leaders in tow, announced new final revisions and deal with Mexico on the new...
The Trump-Slump and What’s Next
By Graham Vanbergen
The global slowdown is on; the who-blinks-first trade war is taking its toll leading to investment anxiety and a slowly crumbling global...
Trump’s Other Wall
By Jack Rasmus
Trump brags about the ‘wall of money’ now flowing into the US from abroad–from Europe, Asia, emerging market economies–as the global economy...
Trump and the Taiwan Gambit
By Peter Koenig
Taiwan has become a new “eastern pivot” for Donald Trump. Against all international laws and UN charters, he is approaching Taiwan, as...
Global Economic Outlook after Trump-Xi Timeout
By Dan Steinbock
As many hoped, the highly anticipated Trump-Xi meeting in the Buenos Aires G20 Summit resulted in a truce. The devil is in...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth
By Danny Leipziger
China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives?
China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...
