Patricia Cohen

Even after the Supreme Court invalidated many of the president’s levies, foreign leaders and executives assume that U.S. tariffs are here to stay, in one form or another.

European leaders have been compelled to address the possibility of once-remote risks to the financial networks and technology that undergird their economies.

Experts are reaching to divine the president’s approach to global policy and economics, with one theory seeing antecedents in centuries-old dynastic rule.

From markets to spending to debt, usually reliable indicators that forecast where the economy is headed are proving deeply fallible.

The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms.

The agreement with Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay represents a push for deeper global cooperation, in contrast to the United States turning to coercion in its dealings with other countries.

A reordering of the rules of trade, set on top of transformational change in technology, demographics and climate, is remaking jobs, politics and lives.