Reflections on the international financial situation

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Jacques de Larosière writes that markets are blind to Trump’s policy shocks that are fragmenting the monetary ‘system’


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The world economy has recently been hit by two successive shocks. The first was the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020–22. Now, there’s the policy shock of the Trump administration unleashed in 2025. Let’s analyse this latest shock.

It’s an intellectual shock: the Trump administration advocates customs protectionism, whereas economic thought and politics since the mid-19th century had advanced along the path of progress by opening borders. By reverting to the tariffs of 1900 (a level of around 6% on

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