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  • Peter S. Goodman

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China Wins as Trump Cedes Leadership of the Global Economy

The president used a keynote speech at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to renounce the last vestiges of the liberal democratic order.

A.I., Big Tech and Trump Shine Most Brightly at the Davos Spectacle

The World Economic Forum is now dominated by global technology companies whose interests shunt aside most others.

As Davos Convenes, Deference to Trump Has Replaced Everything

The traditional rhetoric of the World Economic Forum centered on global integration, climate change and international cooperation. Not anymore.

Workers Who Lost Jobs to Trade Needed Help. Washington Cut the Funding.

Trade Adjustment Assistance was supposed to help people whose jobs were threatened by overseas competition, but Congress eroded its support starting in the 1980s.

The Real Reason Americans Worry About Trade

Behind the pushback to global trade is a deep economic anxiety that a meager social safety net has caused in the United States.

How Keen Footwear Stays Ahead of Trump’s Shifting Tariffs

Keen Footwear has limited its exposure to supply chain trouble and opened a plant in Kentucky. But the trade upheaval has strained its adaptive strategy.

His Start-Up May Not Survive Chaotic Rollout of Trump’s Tariffs

A sourdough baker turned entrepreneur in North Carolina has delayed his new product as he contemplates the prospect that higher costs will doom his company.

Trump’s Tariffs May Push This American Company to Move Jobs to China

The experience of a company in the textile business illustrates how the trade war could force some industries to shift production out of the United…

Trump’s Tariffs Leave No Safe Harbor for American Importers

For companies that have shifted factory production from China to other countries, the latest tariffs have undermined their strategy while sowing paralysis.

Trump Has Added Risk to the Surest Bet in Global Finance

Shocked by Trump’s trade war, foreign investors are selling U.S. government bonds, long the world’s safe haven.