2+ hour, 30+ min ago   (582+ words) Analysis: Trump's Puzzlingly Rosy Jobs Numbers Get audio access with any FP subscription. The Trump administration spent recent days warning markets to brace for a terrible January jobs report, which seemed plausible since the administration has deported a lot of…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (396+ words) Analysis: Bond Markets Are Now Battlefields It's unclear how much of an impact Europe's moves had on the White House backing off. But it poses a number of questions: Can Europe take advantage of weaponized interdependence to wage financial warfare…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (317+ words) Report: Trump Taps Kevin Warsh to Head Federal Reserve Get audio access with any FP subscription. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Kevin Warsh, an academic economist, investor, and former governor of the U.S. Federal Reserve, to be the next chairman…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago   (390+ words) Analysis: Trump Is Getting His Weaker Dollar After All Get audio access with any FP subscription. The U.S. dollar's sharp fall this week to its lowest level in nearly four years, while partly self-inflicted and exactly what U.S. President Donald Trump wants,…...

4+ week, 23+ hour ago   (604+ words) Analysis: Tariffs Have Hurt, Not Helped, the U.S. Economy The U.S. economy, after a tumultuous year of tariffs and trade wars, appears to have performed better than feared earlier in the year, with annual GDP growth through the third quarter of about…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (455+ words) Analysis: Trump and the Fed Are Now at War The skirmishing between U.S. President Donald Trump and the U.S. Federal Reserve has broken into outright war, with potentially huge implications for the independence of the world's most important central bank, the U.S. dollar,…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (591+ words) A curation of our best book reviews, deep dives, and other reads A weekly dispatch with news from the region's 11 countries Analysis: The Biggest Threat to the Dollar Is Coming From Inside the White House The U.S. dollar, for all the…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago   (491+ words) Analysis: Trump's Latest Attack on the Fed Is Cause for Alarm U.S. President Donald Trump's latest assault on the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve, and by extension the stability of the U.S. and global financial systems, came in his attempted firing on…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago   (968+ words) Argument: Trump Will Lose the Trade War The German high command learned a key lesson after losing World War I: Never fight a two-front war. That's why Germany signed the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with the Soviet Union, which stated that neither country…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1378+ words) Latin America Brief: Latin American Economies Look to China as U.S. Slashes Aid Welcome back to Foreign Policy's Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States holds a meeting in China, Panama's leaders wrestle…...