Category: Economic Collapse

Business as Usual?: Trump flirts with currency war in escalating conflict with China. Wants to ‘devalue’ or weaken the dollar.

Business as Usual?:  Trump flirts with currency war in escalating conflict with China. Wants to ‘devalue’ or weaken the dollar. Heather SCOTT. AFP•August 8, 2019 Washington (AFP) – President Donald Trump on Thursday took a step closer to sparking a currency war in the escalating conflict with China, […]

Business as Usual?: US Farm Groups Sound Alarm Over Trump’s China Trade War Escalation

US Farm Groups Sound Alarm Over Trump’s China Trade War Escalation Mike Dorning. Bloomberg•August 5, 2019 (Bloomberg) — Major American farm groups sounded an alarm Monday after China halted U.S. agriculture imports, signaling a key Republican political constituency is losing patience with President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war. […]