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US Steel and Aluminum Tariffs: A Catalyst for Global Economic and Geopolitical Shifts

The enforcement of US steel and aluminum tariffs has triggered market jitters, retaliation threats, and supply-chain recalculations. Read through collapse, the tariffs are best understood not as an isolated trade measure but as an accelerant of a global order already drifting from integration toward fragmentation.

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ECB Delays Inevitable, Slashes Interest Rates Again

The European Central Bank cut interest rates again—its sixth reduction in nine months—only to watch bonds sell off rather than rally. The ECB rate cut is less a cure than a delay, easing the symptoms of a system under climate, energy, and geopolitical strain that cheaper money cannot resolve.

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