Leon Hadar

1 week ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Leon Hadar

The tech billionaire, a long-time critic of tariffs, has called Peter Navarro a ‘moron’ and ‘dumber than a sack of bricks’Published Tue, Apr 15, 2025 · 05:00 AMElon Musk has continually expressed his dissatisfaction with the White House's trade policy. PHOTO: REUTERSElon Musk has continually expressed his dissatisfaction with the White House's trade policy. PHOTO: REUTERSElon Musk has continually expressed his dissatisfaction with the White House's trade policy.

2 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Leon Hadar

WHEN US President Donald Trump launched his biggest tariff barrage and proclaimed “Liberation Day” last week, he may also have closed a chapter in economic history, bringing in the process an end to the era of breathtaking globalisation that powered the global economy for close to eight decades.

3 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Leon Hadar

[WASHINGTON] US President Donald Trump stunned investors and consumers, at home and abroad, on Wednesday (Apr 2), when he announced his most expansive tariffs to date. In a series of moves that he declared as “Liberation Day” for US trade policy, Trump said he would impose 10 per cent tariffs on all trading partners and double-digit “reciprocal” tariffs on countries that have treated the United States unfairly.

3 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Leon Hadar

In the globalised economy, America has relied on the US dollar, advanced microchips and critical energy supply chains to exercise geopolitical power in the 21st centuryPublished Wed, Apr 2, 2025 · 05:00 AMIT USED to be that ravaging another nation’s economic power required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now, as Edward Fishman proposes in , all it takes is a statement posted online by the US government.

3 weeks ago | businesstimes.com.sg | Leon Hadar

WASHINGTON, the capital city of the United States, is a “company town”. And the company is the federal government. The federal workforce in the Washington metropolitan area includes 400,000 people, out of a population of about 750,000 residents. That number doesn’t include those who do business with the federal government, including private contractors, attorneys, lobbyists and journalists as well as hundreds of thousands of those who work for the federal government in other states.