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Since China now dominates green energy production, Trump is perhaps hitting back by trying to crush that boom and force regions such as Europe to buy US fossil fuels instead.

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Trump’s climate tirade will not stop the new ESG

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol as Republican lawmakers struggle to pass U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping spending and tax bill, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 27, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Photo

THE BROAD VIEW

Interest rates are a sideshow in the battle over the Fed’s future

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (L) as he hosts tech leaders for a dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on September 4, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

THE BROAD VIEW

The psychology of CEO loyalty to Trump

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell takes his seat to testify before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on "The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress," on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 24, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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Threats to the Fed go beyond firing Powell

Equity prices might be pricing an assumption that tariff threats will be watered down, and bond markets pricing a belief Trump will not actually execute debt-expanding measures and cause investors to spurn Treasuries.

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Trump is sowing confusion in the markets

The New York Federal Reserve houses the largest known monetary-gold reserve in the world. The gold vault sits 80 feet below street level.

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Gold glitters as mistrust spreads

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks to the media after the House narrowly passed a bill forwarding President Donald Trump's agenda at the U.S. Capitol on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. The tax and spending legislation, in what has been called the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" Act, redirects money to the military and border security and includes cuts to Medicaid, education and other domestic programs. Johnson was flanked by House Committee Chairmen who helped craft the legislation. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Kevin Dietsch / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

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There’s a ticking time bomb in Trump’s ‘big, beautiful Bill’

A former US Treasury official has urged companies to create a new role of “CGO” – or chief geopolitics officer – “to navigate the increasingly blurred lines between commerce and statecraft” where “referees (meaning governments) have changed the rules”.

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Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics

Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Stephen Miran's vision of a Mar-a-Lago accord includes a possible US debt restructuring, which would force some holders of Treasuries to swap them for perpetual bonds.

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Tariffs on goods may be a prelude to tariffs on money

With private equity groups moving into the insurance sector, there are worries that when interest rates rise in the future, or a slowdown occurs in the private capital world, unexpected losses could emerge that would create a domino effect.

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Cheap money’s distortions remain, not least in life insurance

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