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NEW: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to declare that globalization has failed, plans to show that he understands President Trump’s tariff decision. The announcement is set for Monday, according to The Times. “Globalisation doesn’t work for a lot of working people. We don’t… pic.twitter.com/oYhqyG29m3 — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) April 5, 2025 The prime minister will …
🔥Incredible. JD Vance goes off for THREE straight minutes on the FAILURE of globalization: He is so good at this. Just watch: "Cheap labor is fundamentally a crutch, and it's a crutch that inhibits innovation." pic.twitter.com/V2unOXc59v — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 18, 2025
The global trade war is well under way. The European Union on Wednesday announced tariffs of up to 50% on electric vehicles from China, just days after Turkey imposed new tariffs on imports. The U.S. increased its own tariffs a couple of weeks ago. It is also the clearest sign yet that so-called decoupling isn’t …
US news outlets turn to Fleet Street veterans as their troubles mount https://t.co/QVIBkKFhVD — Financial Times (@FT) June 6, 2024 The Brits Invade US Newsrooms With a ‘Killer Instinct’ and Fleet Street Ethics The crisis in American news media has led to an unexpected result in a very short time: The invasion of executive news …
by bobtowne The Western ruling class helped to set up Communist China, has lauded it, moved Western manufacturing to it. etc. Mao went to Yale-In-China. I guess the idea is to expose Canadian pensions to China’s economy to 1) help prop up China or if it collapses 2) take Canadian pensions with it? Some observations …
Over the weekend, Holcim, a Fortune Global 500 company and one of the largest construction material companies in the world, announced plans to spin off its U.S. division. Holcim USA has been the largest, fastest growing, and most profitable part of the Switzerland-based company. On its own, the U.S. division will be the “leading pure-play …
ROME — Pope Francis has urged members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting at Davos this week to promote “far-sighted and ethically sound” models of globalization. The World Economic Forum “aims to guide and strengthen political will and mutual cooperation,” the pontiff told them, and “provides an important opportunity for multi-stakeholder engagement to explore innovative and …