Philip Coggan | Mr Trump’s Trade Wars
Sat 22 Nov 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
Philip Coggan is a British business journalist, news correspondent, and author who has written for The Economist since 2006. At the paper he authored the weekly Bartleby column on work and management until August 2021. He served as the writer of the Buttonwood column on finance before John O’Sullivan took over in 2018. Prior to joining The Economist, Coggan worked for the Financial Times for 20 years, from 1986 to 2006.
He was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Chair Biography
Will Dunn is business editor of the New Statesman. He writes on a range of topics including inflation, housing, the bank of England, the world of work, and the cost of living crisis.
