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Trump is tearing up the Old World Order – as promised

8 April 2025

5:54 PM

8 April 2025

5:54 PM

Seems there is a bit of ruckus on the stock markets of the largest capitalist country in the world, the one with deepest of all capital markets. Donald Trump has decided to lay waste to the globalised, market-based world trading order, and return to the protectionist state of affairs that served the nation so well in the 1930s.

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