Globalisation is fundamentally political, not technological. This is the lesson from a new book tracing 1000 years of international trade history. Here the authors use lessons from the past to ...

With all the talk going on about the merits of free trade and the U.S.’s free trade agreements, it might be helpful to look at an example from the past. Debates over free trade vs. protectionism are ...

Most traders do not put all the pieces of the puzzle together when learning and using technical analysis. Let's talk about topping and bottoming tails. Simply put, a bottoming tail is a bullish signal ...

A long-delayed meeting of World Trade Organization (WTO) ministers scheduled for today was postponed yet again due to the omicron variant of COVID-19. However, the need for a trade policy reckoning ...

When Donald Trump threatens to slap massive tariffs on China , economic textbooks want to self-destruct like the smoky opening scene in a Mission Impossible movie. After all, free trade drives down ...