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Argentina: Devaluation and American interference, but no progress otherwise

No sooner had Javier Milei won the congressional elections with the help of unprecedented American interference in the election campaign than the libertarians regained the upper hand and once again celebrated the Argentine president’s economic successes, which do not even exist. …

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How Europe was brought to its knees: balanced trade or mercantilism?

Many are surprised that the EU Commission has achieved so little in its trade talks with the US. People everywhere are complaining that the EU should have been more courageous and threatened countermeasures. How could it have been allowed to happen that the Americans imposed tariffs and the Europeans simply did nothing? …

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