Markets are rallying after Jerome Powell’s recent announcement that the fed will be helping stimulate the economy if the trade war starts to take its toll. Here’s exactly what could happen and what was just announced.
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President Trump just threatened Mexico with an increasingly growing tariff. The first round of tariffs will be a five percent tax on all goods imported on Mexico. These will be launched on June 10th. This is what is happening and why.
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Sonny Perdue and the Trump Administration announced an additional sixteen billion dollars in aid to farmers struggling with the trade war. The question is, how and why is the government paying farmers billions of dollars for goods there’s no market for. This is everything you need to know about this bailout.
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In an escalation of the trade war with China, Trump introduced a whole slate of new tariffs. There are some debates over the economics of these tariffs, but here are the basics of what just happened, and what happened the last few times we imposed tariffs in this war.
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We recently saw Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visit the White House to negotiate a one on one peace deal with Trump. Here are the sticking points keeping a deal from being signed, and the conflict that lead up to this point.
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On Thursday a long awaited report was released detailing the economic impacts of New NAFTA, or the USMCA. This report was generally positive, if slightly underwhelming. The question now is, what are congress’s objections and will this new deal pass?
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Every year thousands of Chinese politicians get together to discuss the future of the economy. This year the main focuses were a slowdown in GDP growth, a two trillion yuan tax cut, a new foreign investment law, China’s “Hidden Debt” problem, and of course the trade war. Here’s what happened.
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This trade war story is yet to have it’s happily ever after moment because both parties in congress do not like the USMCA trade agreement that America recently signed with Canadian and Mexican leaders. Here’s how implementation is playing out in Congress.
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The trade war has been raging for a while, but it might soon end. China has been actively offering resolutions including, most recently, a trillion dollar program focused on buying American exports in order to zero out any trade imbalance. Here are the most recent updates and what is going to happen next.
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