I usually feel queasy when writing predictions for the year ahead. After all, the internet is forever and if you get it wrong there’s always someone to post a link on social media in a year’s time with the aggressive, but unoriginal, line: “This you?” But if economic forecasters, with their supercomputers, spreadsheets and master degrees from fancy institutions, can …
CNN — President-elect Donald Trump is still pushing for universal tariffs on imports from overseas as his trade advisers are working to craft a strategy to translate his campaign pledges into policy, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. In private discussions, aides are still focused on drawing up plans that hew closely to the blanket tariffs Trump proposed …