Anthony Rowley

1 week ago | scmp.com | Anthony Rowley

Not with a whimper but a bang. Is this the way the global economic order ends? And, will its collapse leave behind a wasteland or pave the way for a new and more sustainable economic order? These critical questions have gone largely unanswered in the welter of comment and analysis on Donald Trump’s tariffs. We need to start seeing the wood for the trees.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Anthony Rowley

NowTrump exempts phones, computers, chips from new tariffsSmartphones and computers are among many tech devices and components that will be exempted from reciprocal tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, …6 hours agoTrump's China tariff shocks US importers. One CEO calls it 'end of days'WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Woldenberg thought he had come up with a sure-fire plan to protect his Chicago-area educational toy company from President Donald Trump’s massive new taxes on Chinese imports.

2 weeks ago | asiaasset.com | Anthony Rowley

Compared to US stocks which have suffered recently at the hands of investors alarmed at President Donald Trump’s tariff tantrums, the dollar has thus far escaped severe punishment. But that may be poised to change, at least according to participants at a recent panel discussion at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo.

2 weeks ago | scmp.com | Anthony Rowley

Could Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” policies end up instead making Asia – East Asia especially – greater than ever? Things appear to be moving in that direction as the US president’s alienating trade and tariff policies create an incentive for East Asia and Europe to move into each other’s arms.

3 weeks ago | scmp.com | Anthony Rowley

“How low can the dollar go?” queried the headline of a recent Financial Times article in which Barry Eichengreen, a professor of economics and political science at the University of California, Berkeley, noted that the dollar – “the sun around which the other elements of the post-war international system revolved” – could be entering a period of fundamental decline. This certainly seems to reflect the decline of Western powers in global economic importance.