Victoria Guida

Washington, D.C., United States

Economics Correspondent and Columnist at POLITICO

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E&E News: Why the US and China pulled back from the edge

1 day ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Victoria Guida |Daniel Desrochers |Megan Messerly |Phelim Kine
Why Trump and China pulled back from their trade war

2 days ago | politico.com | Victoria Guida |Daniel Desrochers |Megan Messerly |Phelim Kine

The agreement is an acknowledgment that a full-on economic divorce of the U.S. and China would be too painful for both sides, despite outward swagger from both Trump and Beijing. Indeed, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent underscored Monday that the goal was not “a generalized decoupling from China.” “I know for many of the hawks, people on our side, that want total decoupling — [it’s] not 100 percent victory,” Steve Bannon, a longtime Trump adviser, said on his “War Room” show.
Why Trump and China pulled back from their trade war

2 days ago | flipboard.com | Victoria Guida |Daniel Desrochers |Megan Messerly |Phelim Kine

16 hours agoU.S. and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days as trade talks continueThe world’s two biggest economies agreed to a temporary rollback of most of their recent levies after negotiating in Switzerland over the weekend.
Elizabeth Warren Called Jerome Powell ‘Dangerous.’ So Why Is She Defending Him Now?

1 week ago | politico.com | Victoria Guida

One of the Democratic Party’s leading economic populists has gone from scorching Powell and the Fed to defending them against Trump’s pressure campaign. Elizabeth Warren is the top Democrat on the committee that oversees financial agencies. | Francis Chung/AP Sen. Elizabeth Warren is no fan of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. She has called him “a dangerous man whose actions make our banking system less safe” for his approach to regulation.
Mark Carney’s past life in politics

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Victoria Guida

Mark Carney, a Goldman Sachs alum who has run two different central banks and recently became prime minister of Canada, is looking to add another line to his resume today: elected leader. Carney, now the head of his country’s Liberal Party, will face off against Conservative candidate Pierre Poilievre in an election that has been dominated by talk of President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Mark Carney Says He’s Ready to Confront the U.S. He’s Done It Before.

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Victoria Guida

The central banker giving that message to some of the dollar’s most important guardians: Mark Carney, at the time the head of the Bank of England. Now, he is prime minister of Canada. These days, Carney is facing down American hegemony much more directly, as his native country navigates President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Mark Carney Says He’s Ready to Confront the U.S. He’s Done It Before.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Victoria Guida

8 hours agoCanadians will cast their ballots on Monday in a pivotal election that has been completely transformed by US President Donald Trump. The Conservatives appeared certain to win any contest by a landslide at the start of the year, until Trump's tariffs and barbs about making Canada the "51st state" …
Treasury chief floats possible de-escalation with Beijing but says no talks yet

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Victoria Guida |Megan Messerly

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said the first step in ending an aggressive trade war between the U.S. and China would be a “de-escalation” where current sky-high tariff rates come down. But the time frame for such a detente remains highly unclear. Bessent told reporters that the two sides weren’t formally negotiating yet, even as President Donald Trump said across town that the U.S. is “actively” negotiating with China — throwing the state of play into further confusion.
Why China’s Xi is watching the Trump-Powell clash

3 weeks ago | politico.com | Victoria Guida

Editor’s note: Morning Money is a free version of POLITICO Pro Financial Services morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 5:15 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. Act on the news with POLITICO Pro. President Donald Trump once asked his millions of Twitter followers: Who is the U.S.’s bigger enemy: Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell or Chinese leader Xi Jinping?
Trump "nie ma zamiaru" zwalniać prezesa banku centralnego, ale chce tańszych pożyczek. W tle obawy o spowolnienie spowodowane cłami

3 weeks ago | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Victoria Guida

Trump wielokrotnie wzywał Fed do obniżenia kosztów pożyczek, co pomogłoby pobudzić gospodarkę przed potencjalnym uderzeniem we wzrost spowodowany cłami, chociaż ostatnie dane sugerują, że gospodarka radziła sobie dobrze w marcu. Rozmawiając z dziennikarzami, Trump powiedział, że "nigdy" nie miał zamiaru usuwać szefa Fed, dodając, że "prasa gada bzdury". Powtórzył jednak swoje przekonanie, że Powell powinien obniżyć stopy procentowe.