The War and Food Policy In a return to the Iraq’s war’s admonishment that you are either with us or against us, U.S. President Joe Biden travels to Brussels late this week with the supposed goal of driving a wedge between China’s Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Some say the same pressure should be applied to India, a democracy that should know better than to enable an autocrat like Putin. Still another view is that Europe needs to remove the wedge it imposes on transatlantic food trade. Brussels bristled when former president Donald Trump-imposed tariffs on European steel for “national security” reasons but thinks nothing of diluting U.S. agricultural export potential by declaring the need for...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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