Talk about a tariff last hurrah. America rushed to import goods in the first quarter of 2025 in advance of Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day,” and that was enough to put the economy into negative territory. Today’s GDP report shows the Q1 result at an annualized -0.3% rate of growth, but the import data buried otherwise...
Several of Friday’s front pages cover plans for a future military deployment in Ukraine. “Starmer threatens Putin” is the i Paper’s headline, after the prime minister warned of “severe consequences” for the Russian president if UK troops were attacked, the paper reports. It comes as Sir Keir “steps up plans” for a “31-nation military force”...
On March 6, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum held a meeting with nearly 40 representatives of Mexico’s national bourgeoisie to discuss her government’s plans in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Sheinbaum would later confess that the meeting was set up to share what her government was planning on doing should her phone...