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127 nieuwsberichten over America’s.

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How investors learned to live with inflation

For a good portion of the early 2020s, just about every discussion of financial markets seemed to involve aviation metaphors. Rich-world inflation had surged and central bankers had belatedly ratcheted up interest rates in an attempt to cool their economies.

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Donald Trump’s blind alley

A tugboat guides a ship at one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on July 14, 2026. Tehran announced it was closing the Strait of Hormuz on July 12 and launched missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbours.

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China can be a useful bogeyman in American politics

China wants more sway over how the world thinks. The country’s latest five-year plan aims for a major leap in international influence. This often manifests on social media as cute videos of pandas or futuristic ones of high-speed trains.

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The AI backlash is only getting started

Advances in ARTIFICIAL intelligence have long terrified techies. Lately, voters are feeling the angst, too. AI is unpopular in the West and climbing up the political agenda. The fiercest fights so far have been in America, where protests against data...

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J.D. Vance is heir to a more radical politics than Trumpism

Back in the 1980s conventional wisdom held that America was moving rightward under Ronald Reagan. But that is not what Patrick Buchanan saw when he surveyed the country as Reagan’s presidency was coming to a close. In his autobiography, „Right from the...

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The EU is just too damn slow

In July 2025 America and the European Union agreed on a lopsided trade deal, signed at President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf course in Scotland. By September officialdom in Washington had completed the necessary paperwork.

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Europe buys the future, America builds it

Europeans do NOT often holiday in America: too far and, these days, too dear. Except for the World Cup. As fans chase their sides across America this summer, they are discovering country music, ranch dressing and—most striking of all—the mass affluence...

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Britain is not yet ready to rejoin the EU

Ten years and six prime ministers after voting to quit the European Union, Britain has, to paraphrase Dean Acheson, lost a continent but not yet found a role. The referendum on June 23rd 2016, in which Britons voted for Brexit by 52% to 48%, has left them...

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AI has granted America vast new power.

The news is full of how an ignominious peace deal with Iran exemplifies a decline in American power. That conclusion could hardly be more wrong. On June 12th the Trump administration ordered Anthropic to block foreigners from Fable and Mythos, its latest...

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This may just be the last World Cup

International co-operation is under threat from the rise of ethno-nationalism, and global institutions are losing credibility. The World Cup’s status as the biggest entertainment event on Earth has created what may be an illusion: that this is one of...

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Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war

On June 11th Europe passed a sombre milestone. As of that date, the fighting in Ukraine had ground on for longer than the first world war. In a grim irony, a conflict that looked like it might last just a few days, as Russian troops confidently stormed...

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American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn

Charles Mackay’s „Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841) is reviled by historians and revered among traders. The book is best known for its colourful passages on tulip mania in the 17th century and the South Sea bubble in...

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Why the world needs more franchises

How do you get rich in today’s America? Founding an artificial-intelligence startup may look tempting, but most fail. Getting an advanced degree and slogging it out as a corporate lawyer or financier was once a reliable path to wealth, but now...

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Smart tech is making war a dumber choice

Bullets and bombs killed nearly three-quarters of a million people in wars between 2021 and 2024. Many more died from the indirect effects of conflict, such as hunger and disease. Combat deaths in the past four years have been the highest since the end of...