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Macro Weekly – Trump slump drags the world along

PublicationMacro economy
30 August 2019, 2:00 am

US-China tit for tat continues, complicating a deal any time soon. Is it China? Is it the Fed? No, this is ‘the Trump slump’. Supply chains start shifting as US-China trade collapses. German confidence takes a hit, but government has fiscal space to cope. Trump slump causes commotion about what índependence really means.

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Arjen van Dijkhuizen

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