Benjamin Hart

New York

Editor and Writer, Daily Intelligencer at New York Magazine

Detroit cop out of my element, editor/writer @nymag's @intelligencer.

Articles

How Much Damage Have Trump's Tariffs Already Done?

1 week ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

President Trump's tariffs continue to frighten businesses and consumers alike. Last week, stiff automobile tariffs went into effect, severely clouding the economic outlook of U.S. carmakers like General Motors and Ford. That's on top of pre-exiting, eye-watering tariffs imposed on China, which are about to impose major costs on U.S. consumers. And then there are the 10 percent tariffs - table stakes for Trump's trade war.
A Democratic Senator Discusses His Trip to Find Kilmar Abrego Garcia

4 weeks ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to notorious El Salvador prison remains there. The government has admitted its mistake in court filings, but members of the administration, from Vice President JD Vance to Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, continue to falsely accuse him of being a member of the MS-133a gang, going so far to label him as a "terrorist.".
Xi Jinping Has Something Trump Doesn't

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

President Trump may have paused his tariffs against American allies last week, but he only escalated hostilities against China, raising tariffs on imports from the country to 145 percent. Given America's dependence on Chinese goods, such restrictions will hurt conglomerates and small businesses alike. And tensions between the rival superpowers aren't likely to die down soon.
How the First Phase of the Trade War Ends

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

With his extreme new round of tariffs in effect as of Wednesday morning, President Trump's trade war is at full throttle. Stock markets around the world keep plummeting, and chaos and uncertainty are the order of the day. but in order to gain a modicum clarity into the situation, I spoke with Olu Sonola, theU.S. Head of Economic Research at Fitch Ratings.
Why Ukraine Still Isn't About to Lose

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

It hardly seemed like good news for Ukraine when Donald Trump won in November, but the reality has been worse than most expected. While pursuing a thus-far illusory Russia/Ukraine ceasefire, Trump labeled Volodymr Zelenskyy a "dictator," embraced Vladimir Putin's version of the war's history, demanded that Ukraine hand over much of its mineral wealth, and castigated Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.
America May Be Staring Down 'Economic Armageddon'

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

Markets around the world plunged on Thursday after President Trump imposed harsh across-the-board tariffs, igniting a probable global trade war. And if there were any hopes that Trump's tariffs were merely a negotiating tactic, the White House attempted to squash them. Amid the chaos, I spoke with Dan Ives, the global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities and a longtime prominent tech-sector analyst.
Heligan Corporate Finance Advises Bromsgrove based IPP Group on cross-border transaction

1 month ago | connecteastmidlands.co.uk | Benjamin Hart

Heligan Corporate Finance ("HCF") is pleased to announce that it has advised the shareholders of IPP Group on its sale to Indutrade, an international technology and industrial business group in Sweden. Founded in 1976, IPP has offices in Bromsgrove, UK and Cork, Ireland, and has sales of approximately €17m. IPP is a specialist provider of manufacturing equipment and consumables to the pharmaceutical, medical device, and electronic sectors in the UK and Ireland.
The U.S. Wants to Execute Luigi Mangione

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered prosecutors on Tuesday to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of United Health CEO Brian Thompson last December.
Nick Denton Has Had Enough of America

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart

If éminences grises like Graydon Carter embody the glory days of New York print media in the 1980s and '90s, Nick Denton is perhaps the prime avatar of the city's freewheeling early digital media era. Denton founded Gawker Media in 2002, and oversaw its expansion into a profitable mini-media empire over the next decade. At its height, the company employed a raft of now-name-brand journalists, and its rambunctious flagship site was mandatory reading for the city's elites and creative underclass.
Trump Is Designing His Own Recession

1 month ago | nymag.com | Benjamin Hart |John Carney

Millions of people voted for Donald Trump in hopes that he would bring down inflation and improve their economic prospects. Many of those voters have not gotten what they bargained for. Trump has not evinced much interest in lowering prices; he has instead pursued policies that are almost certain to raise them, namely his trade wars with U.S. allies. Trump and Elon Musk have also shaken the broader economic picture by mass-firing federal employees and cutting government spending.