There is a particular brand of corporate cynicism that emerges when a company discovers it can charge the customer for a crisis and then pocket the government’s apology for that same crisis.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The two days of talks in Asheville, North Carolina, were less an economic consensus and more a carefully choreographed piece of theater designed to justify unilateral action.
By Ray Dombrowski ·
When a trade dispute reaches the point where national sovereignty is subject to social media mockery, it ceases to be an economic negotiation and becomes, quite simply, theatre.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The notion that a federally mandated tax credit can magically restore Hollywood to its former glory is pure political fantasy.
By Klaus Berger ·
You read the headlines about G20 finance chiefs gathering in Asheville, North Carolina, and you hear words like "global imbalances" and "sovereign debt restructuring." The…
By Ruth Behrens ·
The G20 meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, was not a forum for stability; it was a highly choreographed performance of control.
By Maya Ellison ·
You learn early in life that nothing is ever free. You can’t just walk into the co-op and ask for a bushel of corn without paying for it—and if you don't have the cash, you don't get the grain.
By Ruth Behrens ·
By Sophie Naimi ·
The moment you realize that a powerful man can sign an executive order to change the name of a shared lake—to rename Lake Ontario, for God's sake, to ‘Lake America’—you understand…
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The moment you realize that your daily life—the toilet paper in your bathroom, the cheese on your charcuterie board—is now a geopolitical bargaining chip, you know where power truly resides.
By Imani Sutton ·
The language used by Donald Trump and his allies is designed to sound grand, like some kind of economic shield protecting the American worker.
By Josie Calloway ·
It is always instructive, if disheartening, to watch how quickly what was once considered an act of commerce devolves into something resembling geopolitical bullying.
By Caroline Ashford ·
The moment Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, accepts an invitation to address the European Parliament—and attend President von der Leyen’s State of the Union speech—it is not…
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The sheer absurdity of it is breathtaking.
By Aoife Gallagher ·
The rhetoric emanating from the borderlands—the talk of "tariffs" and "America First"—is not merely a dispute over steel or dairy; it is an exhibition of profound economic myopia.
By Sophie Naimi ·
The current drama unfolding between Washington and Ottawa—the imposition of 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods by the US, as reported by Euronews—is not a…
By Dana Whitfield ·