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We are about to find out the cost of the Trump chaos

Donald Trump hailed the latest US inflation data as “great numbers” and called for an interest rate cut. But he is celebrating far too early.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz

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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) is touted as a possible successor for Fed chair Jerome Powell (right).

Trump’s Treasury Secretary emerges as contender to run the Fed

A growing chorus of advisers inside and outside the Trump administration are pushing for Scott Bessent to replace Jerome Powell as the next chair of the Federal Reserve.

  • Saleha Mohsin, Nancy Cook and Joshua Green
Brace yourself for the tariff storm: President Donald Trump holds his MAGA hat in the wind while disembarking Air Force One last month.

US inflation is the calm before Trump’s tariff storm

The US inflation rate was edging towards the Federal Reserve’s target range. Then Donald Trump launched his trade war on the rest of the world.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
US President Donald Trump has repeatedly slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

The Fed is waiting for the fog of Trump’s trade war to lift

The outcome of the rate-setting meeting is predictable because the outlook for the US economy is so unpredictable, thanks to the chaos from Trump’s trade war.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Donald Trump is in command - to the detriment of global financial markets.

100 days of destruction: Trump’s first three months are a sea of red ink

Donald Trump’s second time in the White House has produced the worst 100 days for financial markets in half a century.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Trump’s “Liberation Day” now seems like an aeon ago.

The Trump administration is just making it up as it goes

Donald Trump’s backflips on his astronomical China tariffs and firing Fed chair Jerome Powell show that markets can protect the world from his worst instincts – to some extent.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
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Trump cannot simply announce a partial freeze on tariffs and expect investors in the bond market to forget that he ever declared a global trade war.

Trump’s trade war could blow up the IMF and World Bank

Meetings of two of the world’s key multilateral organisations this week will be overshadowed by the prospect that the US will withdraw from the institutions it helped create.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
President Donald Trump, the First Lady and the Easter Bunny at the annual egg roll at the White House.

Hegseth has bounced into another hot mess but Trump seems inclined to sack the wrong guy

Rather than taking a hard look at his troubled defence secretary, the president is studying how he could fire the Federal Reserve chairman for failing to cut interest rates.

  • Michael Koziol
Jerome Powell and his officials hold rates steady as they resist Donald Trump’s calls to cut borrowing costs.

Regulators warned the US bond market was vulnerable. Trump is proving them right

The world’s traditional havens in times of stress have themselves become sources of stress.

  • Stephen Bartholomeusz
Stagflation would be the ugliest outcome for which ever party wins government.

What is stagflation, and why are we talking about it again?

The US President’s tariff war has brought back fears of stagnation and inflation, but why is it sending gold prices through the roof?

  • Nick Newling

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