
Larry Edelman
Financial Columnist at The Boston Globe
Columnist @BostonGlobe. Formerly with @WSJ, @Bloomberg, and, yes, @BostonGlobe before there was an @Twitter.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter,” James Carville, Bill Clinton’s campaign general and West Wing consigliere, famously quipped. “But now I want to come back as the bond market.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. Let’s not get carried away. President Trump may have avoided economic disaster when he paused “reciprocal” tariffs on about 60 countries. But his attempt to rewire global trade with a massive tariff shockhas inflicted significant — perhaps permanent — damage nonetheless.
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bostonglobe.com | Shirley Leung |Larry Edelman
“As a CEO, I don’t want my team just spending all their hours consumed by trying to just keep up with the news,” said Poorvi Patodia, who runs Needham company Biena Snacks sold in nearly 15,000 stores nationwide. “We know now there’s enough of a pattern that some news comes out, but then things either reverse, or there’s other negotiations or conversations being had.”A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.
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2 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
Is President Trump’s trade war going to be his “Nixon shock” moment: a blunder whose aftershocks rocked the economy for more than a decade and left scars that are visible even today? In 1971, President Nixon faced a mounting crisis as his reelection campaign loomed: Inflation was climbing, as was unemployment and the US trade deficit.
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3 weeks ago |
bostonglobe.com | Larry Edelman
This column is from Trendlines, my business newsletter that covers the forces shaping the economy in Boston and beyond. If you’d like to receive it via email on Mondays and Thursdays, sign up here. President Trump is building his wall — and we’re all going to pay for it. No, not the unfinished border wall that he started in his first term. You remember: the “big, beautiful” one he claimed Mexico was going to foot the bill for.
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