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Alan Beattie

Alan Beattie

Financial Times

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The internal rivalries that will determine Trump’s policies on trade

The Republican candidate’s first presidential term was marked by infighting in the administration

31.10.2024 9

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The magic pony of private finance fails to fund the global green transition

It’s unrealistic to imagine investors will massively increase their contribution to developing-country infrastructure

17.10.2024 20

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How value chains survived the great inflation without state help

One-off supply-demand mismatches during the Covid shock don’t justify widespread government intervention

10.10.2024 8

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Why the US can’t impose its will over global trade in electric cars

The American market is too small to give Washington leverage over Chinese software in EVs

03.10.2024 30

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How supply chain superheroes have kept world trade flowing

The flat-pack furniture giant Ikea has successfully ridden the shocks of Covid and Ukraine

26.09.2024 10

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Australia’s exemplar for the world on building economic security

Despite interventionist industrial policy rhetoric, Canberra has maintained open trade and a market economy

19.09.2024 10

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Why the US can’t launch a green Marshall Plan

America’s lagging technology and protectionist trade policy hamper its global leadership

05.09.2024 10

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How open trade saved us from a global food crisis

Fears of an international hunger emergency after the Ukraine invasion proved unfounded

29.08.2024 8

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Kamala Harris remembers the consumer cost of worker-centred tariffs

The Democratic candidate makes a welcome attack on Donald Trump’s reckless trade plans

22.08.2024 10

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How Bidenomics will survive Biden’s departure

Kamala Harris won’t have much room to shift from industrial intervention and import tariffs

25.07.2024 8

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Why Brussels can’t see the deforestation for the trees

The EU’s international policies on climate, trade and development are incoherent

18.07.2024 9

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The immigration dilemma Labour hopes will go away

Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers

11.07.2024 10

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Labour may face a tug of war between European trade and US security

The gravitational force of the EU economy will pull against the UK’s strategic alliance with Washington

28.06.2024 10

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The far-right threat that heightens Europe’s immigrant dilemma

The need for overseas workers forces governments to ever-greater heights of hypocrisy

13.06.2024 10

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Why British trade policy needs to stand still

The UK should shun any initiative that makes it harder to realign with the EU

06.06.2024 10

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Milei’s anarcho-capitalist dream collides with Argentine reality

Beneath the adolescent showmanship, the president is slowly pursuing orthodox reform

23.05.2024 70

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The state handouts that get out of control

There is no effective means of constraining destructive subsidies

16.05.2024 40

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Europe’s new anti-subsidy weapon is powerful but hard to control

The EU foreign subsidies regulation is looking to score some notable hits

09.05.2024 40

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The colonialist overtones of EU’s green trade crusade

Many middle-income countries show reserves of pragmatic tolerance that Europeans do not necessarily deserve

25.04.2024 90

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The dollar would survive Trump turning currency warrior

The greenback’s global role has endured shocks from without and within

18.04.2024 10

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The political lessons from Australia’s defiance of China

Consistency and bipartisanship have helped Canberra resist trade coercion by Beijing

04.04.2024 20

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The global downside of European consumers’ green principles

Environmental trade restrictions now reflect noisy campaigners more than protectionist farmers

21.03.2024 10

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Suez, Schmuez: how global trade is shrugging off the Houthi attacks

Blocking cargo ships’ passage through the Red Sea hasn’t noticeably hurt global growth or pushed up inflation

14.03.2024 70

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How trade can save the planet, one tedious spreadsheet at a time

The EU’s carbon tariffs to combat climate change are snarled in complex bureaucracy

07.03.2024 10

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Uncertainty dogs the global digital market

A WTO meeting next week will discuss the bizarre idea of trying to put border tariffs on data flows

22.02.2024 10

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The US can lead on trade despite storms of criticism over Gaza

There is no single liberal international order embracing both economics and foreign policy

08.02.2024 10

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The education exports that governments would rather ignore

Ministers should explain the benefits and address the costs of attracting foreign students

01.02.2024 20

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Biden’s green spending splurge is a hard model to copy

US industrial policy is too expensive and China-sceptic to become a global standard

25.01.2024 60

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The world cannot depend on the US to keep trade peace

Relying on American military power to protect Red Sea shipping routes is risky

18.01.2024 90

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The immigration smokescreen is beginning to lift

Governments are performatively hostile to asylum seekers to distract voters from economic migrants

11.01.2024 30

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Brussels setting rules for AI isn’t pretty, but someone’s got to do it

The EU’s new tech regulations are complex but a good-faith effort to fix a problem

13.12.2023 4

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Why export controls are failing to cripple their targets

Diverse geopolitics, smart researchers and resourceful traders are undermining attempts to control critical products

07.12.2023 20

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