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Bloomberg
08-07-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump's Letters to the World Threaten Tariff Pain
I'm Craig Stirling, a senior editor in Frankfurt. Today we're looking at Donald Trump's latest trade salvos. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@ And if you aren't yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. The biggest trade standoff of the 21st century so far once again reverted to the communication methods of another age on Monday as the White House issued a series of letters, albeit via the US president's social media site.


Bloomberg
27-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Warning Signs of Weak Job Creation in the US
I'm Mark Niquette, a US economy reporter in Columbus. Today we're looking at the US labor market. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@ And if you aren't yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. The US employment report isn't due until next week, but recent indicators and surveys are pointing to weak job creation this month.


Bloomberg
23-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Global Economy, Resilient to Tariffs, Faces New Mideast Storm
I'm Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston. Today we're looking at the latest threat to wreck the global economic expansion. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@ And if you aren't yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. Five months into the biggest trade war the global economy has seen in the postwar era, the bottom has hardly fallen out of major economies.


Bloomberg
19-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Fed Bides Its Time to Find Out Who Will Pay Tariffs
I'm Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston. Today we're looking at the Fed's reluctance to cut rates. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@ And if you aren't yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. Meaningful economic information comes from three straight months of data, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has indicated. 'It's appropriate to take signal' at that point, as he put it last year.


Bloomberg
17-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Japan Showcases Central Bank Dangers When Debt Gets Massive
I'm Chris Anstey, an economics editor in Boston, and today we're looking at the risk of fiscal dominance. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@ And if you aren't yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here. Central banks are generally supposed to focus on keeping prices stable, and for some of them, that's all they're charged with. When they appear to start targeting something else, economists say they're being 'dominated' by that other concern.