But as the world economy braces for Donald Trump’s tariffs, the biggest upending of free trade in a century, Britain has found itself in the rather unfamiliar position of being quite well insulated, ...

(See chart here.) This is a fixed situation ... taxpayers paid an average effective rate of only 16.9 percent in income taxes during the 1950s,” economist Scott Greenberg noted in a 2017 article for ...

The Supreme Court condemned its ruling in Korematsu in 2018, calling it “morally repugnant” and “gravely wrong” but at the ...

The Economist on Thursday published a scathing editorial criticizing President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on virtually all of the United States’ trade partners. On Wednesday, Trump held ...

Chart: The Economist In fact, the clamour has all been to sell. The greenback’s value had already been falling for months relative to a basket of its rich-world peers (see chart). It then ...

Asian nations will face the worst of the brunt, with Cambodia facing a tax rate at 49% and Vietnam at 46%, according to Nationwide Chief Economist Kathy Bostjancic. On top of China's 34% ...

Chart: The Economist For Mr Trump the measures represent an attempt to bring a long era of increasingly free global trade to a definitive end. Such openness has, he argued, allowed other countries ...