Fed’s Waller says interest rates may need to be cut soon if largest Trump
tariffs stay in place
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If President Donald Trump’s large tariffs remain in place for some time,
the economy is likely to slow to a crawl, Federal Reserve governor Chris
Waller sa...
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ONENESS REALLY means ;..One reason for the synchronized gloom, of course, is the synchronization of the global economy. But the world is suffering from more than a shared summer cold. Rather, we are all, both together and apart, trying to figure out three big questions. Our answers to them will shape the 21st century.
ReplyDeleteThe first is how nation-states fit into a globalized world economy. Different countries are wrestling with different versions of this problem. Small states with their own currencies and open trade policies have just endured a version of the Asian crisis of 1998, and they have come to similar conclusions — survival requires a fortresslike national balance sheet and export-led growth. That’s why Baltic leaders, these days, sound an awful lot like Southeast Asian ones.