Philip Coggan | Mr Trump’s Trade Wars
Recorded: Sat 22 Nov 2025
Duration: 1 hour
Philip Coggan | Mr Trump’s Trade Wars
Winter 2025
As President Trump pushes tariffs, trade wars and protectionist policies in his drive to “Make America Great Again”, what will become of the global economy we have relied on for decades? For more than half a century, prosperity and peace have been underpinned by a system of close trading links between nations, but this system is now under direct threat.
Award-winning journalist Philip Coggan, formerly of The Economist and The Financial Times, explores Trump’s economic gamble in his urgent new book The Trump Tax. He shows how these policies are already reshaping geopolitics, squeezing living standards, fuelling uncertainty and threatening recession.
Is this the end of globalisation as we know it? What does this “age of chaos” mean for the US, for the world, and for all of us in our daily lives?
Come and hear one of our finest financial commentators explain why global trade still matters, and why understanding these dramatic shifts is essential for navigating the future.
In conversation with Will Dunn
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