Australia draws a red line - and children lose their digital spaces overnight
Australia has become the first country in the world to enact a law that bars children under 16 from accessing social networks ...
Trump’s Great Defeat of November 14 – The President Who Suddenly Buckles
Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, November 14, 2025, that eliminates tariffs on a wide range of products without replacement – beef, coffee, tropical fruits. Goods that ...
The Day Trump’s “Genius” Policies Caught Up With Wall Street
New York experienced on this Thursday the moment when the financial markets stopped lying to themselves. A day when the fantasy of the boundless power of artificial intelligence collided head-on with reality ...
The Price of Harvest – How Trump’s Policies Pushed America’s Farmers into the Abyss and Death
Nebraska – It is the silent end of a land that once thought of itself as the world’s granary. While Washington debates budget numbers, the fields of the Midwest sink into debt ...
The Day of Reckoning - The Supreme Court Reviews Trump’s Tariffs, and the Ground Is Shaking
It was 10 a.m. in Washington when the Supreme Court session began. The case before the highest court of the United States that day could redefine the limits of presidential power ...
The President and the Beloved Cow – How Trump’s Argentina Deal Betrays America’s Ranchers
This article is the continuation of our investigation “How Trump Is Turning America’s Cattle Ranchers Against Him.” What is happening now confirms every suspicion that has been circulating for months across the prairies of Texas ...
A country in descent - When America's skies grow emptier, paychecks stop coming, and Trump's economy revolves around artificial values
America’s skies are thinning. Planes take off later, some not at all. And down below, in the glow of radar screens, sit men and women who have not been paid for weeks ...
How Trump Is Turning America’s Cattle Ranchers Against Him – An Investigative and Disturbing Report
There are moments when one wonders whether Donald Trump still knows what he is doing – or whether he has long since become his own contradiction. While his administration calls on farmers, ...
A Market Loses Its Balance - Trump’s Tariff Rhetoric and the Fragile Architecture of Wall Street
The American financial markets experienced on Friday a rare combination of overvaluation, nervousness, and political unpredictability. The trigger was not a macroeconomic shock but a message from the president ...
The Tariff That Never Came - Trump's Truck Tactics Between Bluff and Economic Self-Deception
Donald Trump has once again postponed his latest round of tariffs - this time the announced 25 percent on medium and heavy-duty trucks. The import duties were actually supposed to take effect on October 1, together with ...
Furniture Under Tariffs - Trump’s Next Swing Into the Void
Donald Trump currently seems to be pulling new ideas out of a hat on a weekly basis for how to drive the United States economically into the ground. His latest trick: “substantial” tariffs ...
A Quarter Point, Two Fronts - How Powell Cuts Under Trump Pressure and Fights Inflation
A quarter point is small on paper and large in politics. The Federal Reserve has cut the key interest rate by 25 basis points - new range 4.00 to 4.25%, the first ...
Trump’s Policies Drive Them Into Ruin and Death – Arkansas’ Farmers Reap What They Have Sown, as Shocking Images Show
The images from Brookland, Arkansas, are harrowing, even for us, and revealing at the same time: Hundreds of farmers, many with deep lines from sun and worry, crowd into a gymnasium ...
The Big Ugly Bill - How Trump's Tariffs Drain Billions from the States
Our research has shown that Donald Trump's tariff policy is not just an ideological project but a gigantic, invisible tax on the US economy. Since January 2025, companies in the United States ...
The Green Colossus Staggers - How Trump's Tariff War Shatters John Deere and the Farmers
Imagine you are Josh and Dewey Enlow. Every morning you stand on your auction lot in Oklahoma, surrounded by a sea of green giants - John Deere tractors as far as the eye can see.
The Tariff Apocalypse: How Trump Is Dragging the Global Economy into the Abyss
It is Friday afternoon, August 30, 2025. Traders on Wall Street are staring at their screens as the news flashes across the tickers: The U.S. Court of Appeals ...
The Intel Deal - a Billion-Dollar Deception
Donald Trump likes to present himself as a brilliant dealmaker. On August 22, 2025, he triumphantly declared that the United States had now "received ten percent of Intel for free" ...
The Invisible Sword of Damocles - How Trump's Tariff Policy Shakes the World Economy
Economic reality knows no patriotic slogans, no national anthems and no campaign stagecraft. It follows sober laws that operate as relentlessly as gravity. Whoever ignores them risks not only his own downfall but drags entire economies down with him ...
Trump’s Digital Empire – How Family, NFTs, and Bitcoin Weave a Crypto-Network of Power
What at first glance looks like the diagram of a fantasy role-playing game is in fact an attempt to bring order to a complex web of companies, ...
All In - Trump’s Tariff Roulette and the Creeping Inflation
US inflation held steady at first glance in July - and yet the picture is anything but reassuring. While falling gasoline and food prices kept the inflation rate in check, ...
The Great Blockade – How Trump’s Tariff Policy Turns the Global Economy into a Pawn of His Power Plays
With a single stroke of the pen, Donald Trump has done what economists had been warning about for months – he has plunged the world into an economic state of emergency. As of Thursday at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time ...
The Destruction of the American Dream – The Ugly Big Lie
Frenchtown, an unremarkable place with just under 2,000 residents in Missoula County in western Montana, exemplifies the rural West of the United States – and both the hope and the ...
From Golden Promise to Global Storm Front - Trump and the Economic Shockwave for Europe
More than six months after the start of Donald Trump’s second term, the American economy is showing a state that has little in common with the grandiose promises of a new “golden age.” The latest data paint a picture that ...
Trump Escalates the Global Tariff War - Negotiations, Threats, and Rising Risks
As the deadline for the introduction of new U.S. punitive tariffs on August 1 approaches, President Donald Trump is in the midst of frantic trade negotiations that could have significant worldwide effects.
Distorted Surge - How Trump's Tariffs Shook the US Economy in 2025
The US economy faltered in the first half of 2025, and the turbulent zigzag moves of Donald Trump’s trade and tariff policy left deep marks on the growth figures. While gross domestic product rebounded in the spring after ...
The Staggering Giant - Trump's Policies and the Falling Dollar
It was a soaring flight that ended abruptly. Shortly after Donald Trump's election as president, the US dollar saw a sharp rise - driven by promises of economic renaissance, tax cuts, ...
A Signature for a Thousand Dollars – Trump's Most Expensive Gospel
It is a book that tells more than its contents. A Bible, bound in patriotism, infused with political calculation ...
An Attack Foretold - How Trump Plans Jerome Powell's Ouster and Fails at the Constitutional Line
It is perhaps the most explosive power struggle within the American financial system - and one that grows sharper with each passing week: Donald Trump ...
All In - Trump’s Game with the Fed and the Repetition of Loss
It was a single sentence that was enough to shake Wall Street: Donald Trump had “talked about firing the Fed chair.” He said nothing more at first - and yet it was enough to send the stock market ...
China’s Counter to Trump’s Tariffs - Growth Despite Pressure
Donald Trump had hoped to bring China’s economy to its knees with punitive tariffs. But the reality reflected in the new figures from Beijing paints a different picture: despite tariffs of up to 145 percent in spring 2025, China’s economy continues to grow ...
Trump Has Lost All Restraint - at the Expense of Canada and the Global Population
It is a letter that only Donald Trump could write: pompous, aggressive, economically dangerous. In his latest message to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the US president announced plans to raise tariffs on Canadian imports to 35% ...
Global Game of Chicken: Tariff Yourself Rich - 90 Trade Deals in 90 Days, Says Trump
It sounded like a promise from a bad TV commercial: "90 deals in 90 days." But what Donald Trump announced in April turned out three months later to be an empty threat ...
How Donald Trump Is Playing with Global Trade – and Harming His Own Country in the Process
It begins with a letter. Printed on official White House stationery, dated July 7, 2025, signed with Donald J. Trump’s trademark thunderous signature. But what follows is not a diplomatic message, ...
The Price of Madness - How Trump's New Tariffs on Japan and South Korea Are Shifting the Global Economy More and More
It was a letter like a ransom note - with the letterhead of the White House, but the tone of a trade warrior on a personal vendetta. On July 7, 2025, Donald Trump, President of the United States, ...
Deadline Diplomacy - How Trump Puts His Trade Partners Under Pressure
Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure - relying once again on the familiar mix of threats, ultimatums, and public displays of power. By Wednesday, all countries that trade ...
A Dangerous Game with the Economy – Trump's EU Tariffs and the Looming Fragmentation of Global Trade
Frankfurt – It is the largest trade relationship in the world - and it is on the brink. On Monday, the European Union expects to learn whether U.S. President Donald Trump will make good ...
Trump Wants No Visitors - National Parks Only for Americans
Washington - Donald Trump has never made a secret of the fact that he doesn’t care much for international guests - and on July 3, 2025, he cemented that stance once again.
Shattered by Tariffs – How Donald Trump Brought a Food Empire Like Del Monte to Its Knees
It is the end of an era – and at the same time a harbinger of a policy that does not protect but destroys. Del Monte Foods, a giant of the American food industry ...
The Signal in the Shadows – Trump's Job Market Turns Negative
Washington – It was just a number, but it cast a shadow over the Trump administration’s optimistic narrative: for the first time in nearly a year, the number of private-sector jobs in the US has declined ...
A Triumph Full of Fractures – Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Passes the Senate
Washington, July 1, 2025 – In the midst of a stifling July heat, after a sleepless night of legislative wrangling, the US Senate today passed President Donald Trump’s central legislative project of tax breaks ...
California's Fields Lie Empty - Trump's Raids Drive Farmworkers to Flee and Farmers to Ruin
Oxnard, California - Lisa Tate stands at the edge of her strawberry field, her gaze drifting across rows of ripe fruit glistening in the California summer sun - untouched, unharvested, on the verge of decay.
When the President Grabs a Marker - Trump Scolds Fed Chair with a Sharpie
Washington, D.C. – In the history of American presidencies, there have been many unusual messages - on letterhead, in tweets, as margin notes on legislative drafts. But what Donald Trump just sent to the Chairman of the U.S. Federal ...
Trial of strength in the Senate – Trump’s tax gift is at risk of collapsing within his own party
It is Saturday evening in Washington, and the Senate is still lit. No ceremonial act, no state visit - but a political ballet of nerves where every vote counts. While President Donald Trump ...
The Invisible Tax - Trump's Tariffs and the Quiet Expropriation of the Middle Class
It is a silent tremor that creeps into the balance sheets of American households – slowly, insidiously, but inexorably. The United States is experiencing an explosive increase in the amounts citizens are paying in tariffs ...
America's Downturn – Trump's Tariff Policy Causes First US Economic Contraction in Three Years
It is a clear warning signal amid economic policy turbulence: the US economy shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025 – and thus more sharply than previously assumed. ...
Market in Holding Pattern - How Wall Street and Oil Prices Are Reacting to Trump’s Strike on Iran
New York - The intervention of the United States in the war between Israel and Iran - through targeted airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities - left surprisingly subdued traces on global financial markets on Monday...
The Great Bluff – How Donald Trump Gets Caught in His Own Net with an 'All-American' Smartphone Made in China and Intra-Party Chaos
It was supposed to be a patriotic coup – a symbol of technological independence, economic revival, and nationalist identity: the “All-American Smartphone” announced by Donald Trump, presented with stars-and-stripes pageantry, MAGA flair, ...
Corruption as Law – How Trump is Selling Off Democracy Through the Stablecoin Act
It starts with a law that sounds harmless – and ends in a perversion of political responsibility. The U.S. Senate is expected to pass a crypto bill this week that supposedly aims to bring order to the market. In reality, it opens the floodgates to corruption. The law, known as the “GENIUS Act,” ...
Gold, Gigabytes and Grandiosity - Trump’s Entry into the Mobile Phone Market
New York, June 16, 2025 - Donald Trump is entering the mobile phone market. With a blend of pathos, patriotism, and product promise, the Trump Organization has introduced a new mobile phone brand: T1 Mobile ...
The Price of Power – Trump's China Deal as an Economic Game of Risk
What Donald Trump calls “excellent” on Truth Social is difficult to translate into economic terms with the same tone. The new deal with China, which the president claims is concluded – pending final approval by Xi Jinping ...
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