Finance & economics | Tariff reaction
Market carnage goes global
As stockmarkets plunge, Donald Trump seems untroubled. That is scary
|Hong Kong
DURING HIS inaugural address eight years ago, Donald Trump spoke of “American carnage”. In recent days he has spread something similar across the world economy: a problem he alone could fix, in his words, has become something he alone has globalised.
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