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 ...
The Heat of Power – How Donald Trump Is Turning America’s Labor Protections to Dust
36 million workers were to be better protected from heat by a new regulation from OSHA – the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Shade, drinking water, breaks: not ...
Goodbye, Mr. Nice Guy - How Donald Trump Crashed Tesla and Turned Elon Musk Into a Liability
It started with a sentence. One of those sentences that are more than just an opinion - a harbinger. "I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it." What was meant was the termination of multi-billion-dollar government contracts ...
From Pizza Delivery to the Nobel Prize – and Pushed Aside: How the U.S. Under Trump Is Losing Its Brightest Minds
It does not begin with a scandal, but with a system. Not with an outrage, but with a decision: Research – yes, but only if it fits the worldview. Migration – ...
Trump sharply attacks Republican Rand Paul: "His ideas are actually crazy"
It was a morning of open reckoning when President Donald Trump sharply attacked Republican Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky on his Truth Social platform. The reason was Paul's criticism of Trump's key domestic initiative, the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (BBB), ...
"Big or beautiful?" - How Trump's mega bill is tearing the Republican conscience apart
It is a political monument, a monument to overconfidence, baptized with the name of a marketing promise: The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Donald Trump announced it as a masterpiece of fiscal policy – but within his own ranks ...
How Trump’s Chip Blockade and Visa Threats Have Reignited the Conflict With China
It was a brief moment of relief, hardly more than a breath in the history of economic rivalry: Just a few weeks ago, the United States and China announced in Geneva ...
The Illusion of Growth – Trump’s Debt Promises Between Rhetoric and Reality
It is a promise that could hardly be greater – and at the same time more dangerous: President Donald Trump wants to solve America’s debt problem. With multibillion-dollar tax cuts, growth-driven optimism, and an aggressive tariff policy. But ...
Steel-Hard, But Stupid – How Trump Spooked the Markets With 50% Tariffs and Gave Apple a Scare
By a man who set out to make America great again – and burned billions along the way. It was one of those scenes that have become routine in Trump’s second term: a warehouse ...
"No Deals"
Despite public announcements and media staging of “deals” under President Trump, as of May 28, 2025, no new, fully negotiated, and legally binding trade agreements have entered into force.
The President and the Chicken – Trump’s Fragile Ego Collides with Market Reality
– Trump reacts angrily to his new Wall Street nickname: “Don’t ever say that again.” - It began with a sentence, spoken calmly, analytically, yet politically explosive. A reporter asked the President of the United States what he thought about Wall
Judges Block Trump’s Tariff War - US Trade Court Sets Limits on Presidential Emergency Powers
Washington, May 29, 2025 – A federal court in New York delivered a serious legal setback to President Donald Trump on Wednesday: His attempt to impose sweeping tariffs on global imports by invoking the 1977 emergency powers law ...
Elon Musk versus Trump’s Spending Offensive – One Man, One Billion-Dollar Plan, One Setback
It was a sentence as if from another world: “A bill can be big or it can be beautiful - but both at once?” Elon Musk looked into the CBS studio camera, his gaze tired yet unwavering...
The Farmers and the Broken Promise - How Trump’s Agricultural Policy Destroys Trust and Costs Billions
It begins like an American tragedy, written not in blood, but in omitted budget lines and frozen grant programs. Across the wide fields of Pennsylvania, where hope once bloomed, ...
Welcome to the Economy of Death – How BlackRock is Suing Life Itself - When Profit Is Allowed to Kill – and the System Says Thank You
It begins with a lawsuit so absurd, it almost reads like satire. But it’s real. BlackRock, the largest asset manager in the world, is suing UnitedHealth — not because the company ...
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