RIP globalisation

What’s driving Trump’s Tariffs and the global economic reset?

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What’s driving Donald Trump’s tariffs? What’s the underlying political logic? Is what we’re seeing the policy of one president or does it instead reflect a much broader and longer term critique of the established economic order that’s been steadily building over the last thirty years?

I wanted to send a short note on these questions because much of what JD Vance and Donald Trump have been saying in recent days touches on arguments I made about globalisation in an earlier book.

And many of the same points, I suspect, will also be acknowledged by UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a major speech due to take place tomorrow, which we are hearing will be on the theme of globalisation and the new economic order that is now emerging around us.

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