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TOMORROW, April 17: @chadpbown.com joins PIIE Insider LIVE to discuss tariffs, tracking trade wars, & the future of global trade. Register via Zoom to ask questions live: www.piie.com/events/2025/... Check out his trackers here: www.piie.com/research/pii... & here: www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

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So much winning…

Exactly. @data.ft.com @gideonrachman.bsky.social

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The moral and intellectual pygmies around Trump might learn a thing or two from history and America's last grand strategists. Of course they won't. My weekend FT essay. on.ft.com/3GhNw4u

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A friend who understands these matters said last night that we’ll be lucky to get out of this with a normal recession, as opposed to a real international economic crisis. As Kyle Rodda said, 'This goes beyond pricing in a growth slowdown and trade uncertainty.'” www.thebulwark.com/p/not-seriou...

Have questions about trade? Same. @chadpbown.com joins PIIE Insider LIVE on April 17 to discuss tariffs, tracking trade wars, & more. Register via Zoom to ask questions live: www.piie.com/events/2025/...

Consumer sentiment has tanked and the 1-year inflation outlook is at its highest since 1981, a closely watched University of Michigan survey shows

Stocks plunged Thursday, erasing a big chunk of Wednesday's market rebound as traders digested the remaining threats from Trump's tariff frenzy.

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon warns of recession as tariffs roil global financial markets

The "Trump put" that investors relied on in his first term — the notion that Trump would change policy if stocks or bonds had a bad reaction — looked like it might be dead in the second term. Until Wednesday.

Trump's decision to pause many of the sweeping tariffs he announced only a week ago comes after all corners of the MAGAverse soured on financial earthquakes the levies unleashed.

Trump pauses most tariffs, but these ones are still in effect.

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as I keep saying, you can't put the shit back in the donkey even if he scraps all the tariffs tomorrow, the damage is done

It’s Tuesday 8April2025

$9.5 trillion has now been wiped off global shares prices, Bloomberg calculates.

Fasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy century.