Kate Andrews

London

Economics Editor at The Spectator

Columnist, Telegraph Business at The Telegraph

Economics Editor, @Spectator. Columnist, @Telebusiness.

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Trump administration issues order to stop construction on New York offshore wind project

1 week ago | virginiabusiness.com | Jennifer McDermott |Kate Andrews

The Trump administration has issued an order to stop construction on a major offshore wind project to power more than 500,000 New York homes, the latest in a series of moves targeting the industry. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday directed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to halt construction on Empire Wind, a fully-permitted project. He said it needs further review because it appears as though the Biden administration rushed the approval.
CuomoGPT: former governor uses AI to co-author housing plan

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Aidan McLaughlin |Rod Liddle |Ben Domenech

If you were worried about disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo being too “hands-on” during his run for New York mayor, fear not: the Love Gov’s campaign has an impersonal touch to it. Local news site Hell Gate exposed how the 29-page housing plan released by the Cuomo campaign bore the hallmarks of being partially put together using ChatGPT. One particularly unparsable passage: Mischief, mayhem and Washington gossip from The Spectator’s intrepid beat reporter.
Is Donald Trump ready to weather a recession?

1 week ago | thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Charles Lipson |Kate Andrews |Ian Williams

A recession now looks even more certain for the United States. Output has flattened. The chaotic implementation of Donald Trump’s tariff regime has left businesses bewildered. And consumers will soon be facing huge price rises. Of course, the US might well emerge in better shape at the end of it. The trouble is, President Trump has done nothing to prepare the voters for the pain ahead – and he will find a downturn very tough politically.
Did Douglas Murray break Joe Rogan?

1 week ago | thespectator.com | James Tidmarsh |Kate Andrews |Charles Lipson |Freddy Gray

Who gets to call themselves an expert? That’s the big question featured in a bruising episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, in which Rogan hosts The Spectator’s Douglas Murray and the libertarian comedian Dave Smith.
Africa is the new front in Trump’s trade war against China

1 week ago | thespectator.com | James Tidmarsh |Kate Andrews |Charles Lipson |Freddy Gray

Donald Trump has opened a new front in his trade war with China, deploying a family confidant to Kinshasa to challenge Beijing’s control of critical minerals. Almost unnoticed amid the tariff battles, Trump is working to reclaim the mineral supply chains that power the modern world – starting in the Democratic Republic of Congo at Africa’s heart.
The art of the pivot

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Dot Wordsworth |Freddy Gray |Ian Williams

“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social account yesterday morning. With trillions of dollars wiped off stock market value since his tariff announcements last week, this appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a silver lining. It also happened to be a literal statement.
Tiffany Trump and the awfulness of the baby shower

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Kara Kennedy |Kate Andrews |Peter Watson |Ben Domenech

Tiffany Trump’s baby shower photos emerged this week, a Peter Rabbit-themed extravaganza thrown by her sister Ivanka in a Palm Beach mansion, so lavish that Beatrix Potter would have needed a second mortgage to attend. Think balloon arches as big as monuments, themed cocktails and swag bags worth more than your monthly car payment.
Why has Trump backed down on tariffs?

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Kate Andrews

Two days ago, talk of a 90-day pause on Donald Trump’s ‘recipricoal tariffs’ was branded ‘fake news’ by the White House. This afternoon, the President has confirmed a 90-day pause on the higher tariff rates on all countries apart from China. ‘Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125 per cent, effective immediately,’ the President shared.
Does Trump’s 90-day tariff pause really hint at a change of heart?

2 weeks ago | thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Freddy Gray |Curtis Yarvin |Peter Pomerantsev

Two days ago, talk of a 90-day pause on Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” was branded “fake news” by the White House. This afternoon, the President has confirmed a 90-day pause on the higher tariff rates on all countries apart from China. “Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately,” the President shared.
Impeccable history of the free market – and from the BBC too | The Spectator Australia

2 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | Kate Andrews

Invisible HandsBBC Radio 4 The launch of Radio 4’s Invisible Hands series has been both blessed and cursed by timing. It tells the story of Britain’s ‘free market revolution’, just as President Donald Trump overhauls the free trade consensus of the past 40 years and world leaders grapple with how to respond.