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Jonathan Haskell and Matthew J Slaughter write for Foreign Affairs about Trump's tariffs and the prices of economic uncertainty. ... Read more...
10 June 2025
Thomas Sampson speaks to presenter Tim Harford about the US tariffs on global trade that were announced by president Donald Trump on 2 April 2025 ... Read more...
04 April 2025
Some commentators argue that globalisation is systematically connected to the real-wage and productivity stagnation seen across the developed world. This column analyses the relationship between international trade and w... Read more...
01 October 2019
Economists Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom and Steven Davis —authors of the study that measured Depression-era uncertainty—have found that economic uncertainty related to trade this March was more than... Read more...
10 May 2018
LSE economist Thomas Sampson viewed Martin’s press release and told HuffPost it had a “partial truth”, as axing the tariffs would make food cheaper but only cheaper than if Britain left the E... Read more...
04 November 2017
Researchers says even a 10-fold rise in EU carbon price would lead to a less than 0.5 per cent drop in exports A large rise in energy prices would barely affect exports from European industry and the balance of trade, a... Read more...
02 March 2015