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Tariffs will test not reconfigure global supply chains

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UNITED STATES-CHINA

The United States and China are imposing tariffs on over 50 billion dollars of the other’s imports -- and threaten more

US/EU economic performance and policies will diverge

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INT

US interest-rate expectations have moved from several cuts to perhaps even none, while an ECB cut remains likely in June

Policy is key to curbing the forces driving inequality

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INT

The rich are getting richer globally but policies fostering redistribution, diversification and growth can check this

Policy can prevent productivity pay gaps proliferating

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INT

The widening US productivity pay gap, where GDP gains are paid to workers less and less, is not replicated globally

A China crisis is bigger systemic threat than markets

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INT

China’s influence on the global real economy is a bigger risk than events in fragile Italy, Turkey and Argentina

Balance sheet wars will fire up among central banks

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INTERNATIONAL

A look at the likely divergence of monetary policies around the world

Patent protectionism could impede innovation globally

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INT

Amid US-China tensions, China has ruled that most iPhones breach patents and must be banned

US auto autarky ambition could cut world trade and GDP

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INT

The EU taxes US cars at 10%, firing an auto surplus; the US taxes EU cars at 2.5%, firing a deficit and troubling Trump