A week ago, Westminster was digesting the chancellor's Spring Statement and all the talk was of a tightrope walk and precarious public finances. Next, let's go back nearly two decades to the financial ...

Effects on inflation and employment have not been as bad as feared – but could still materialise with full force in 2026 ...

I was taught to use “fewer” with countable nouns: “less coal, fewer sacks”. Perhaps the rule could be expressed in a more contemporary form as: “less protectionism and fewer tariffs”.

President Donald Trump and his administration are racing to get trade deals done ahead of a self-imposed deadline, at which point tariffs are set to rise for dozens of countries across the world. News ...

In politics, fantasy often fills the space where fiscal reality should take center stage. For example, the left has long insisted that large new spending programs could be funded “if only the rich ...

I was surprised to see the Outlook column (“Canadian maple syrup finds itself in a sticky tariff situation”, July 31) end with the thought that President Donald Trump should tell Americans “to eat ...

"Watch the courts" was the whispered message a well-connected diplomat told me in Washington DC last month, amid the previous episode of US tariff chaos. Most eyes were on the high-profile case in ...