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How markets can get used to Trump’s bullying shock therapy
Markets need to quickly understand that the next US president and his team see trade in political, rather than narrowly economic, terms.
Gillian TettContributorA few months ago, I dined with some of Canada’s business leaders and Robert Lighthizer, a key trade adviser to the next US president, Donald Trump.
I expected a calm meal – Canadian leaders are usually so polite that a senior American politician once jokingly described them to me as the “herbivores” of global affairs.
Financial Times
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