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While many Chinese businesses are reeling from the trade war, Qi, the Maga merchandise maker, brushed off any suggestion his might suffer. Trump supporters, he said, were willing to pay any price for items bearing the image of their beloved president - and US suppliers were making such a huge profit on them that they could afford to partially absorb the tariff impact. A Trump baseball cap, for instance, cost only Rmb7.50 ($1) to produce. Tariffs might raise that cost to Rmbo, but the caps were being sold for $50 in the US. "American sellers could even use the tariffs as an excuse to raise the price to $60 - yet the extra cost will still be borne by the US consumers, " said Qi.

Quite wonderful find by this FT team. A Chinese small business that makes MAGA merch on.ft.com/4cAH6tE

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s desperation to be cool as they suck up to Donald Trump is so cringe it makes my skin crawl

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„He might have successfully transformed his image, but at least lizards have backbones.“

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"“I love Boris Johnson, he was treated very badly,” he replied, demonstrating the kind of character judgement that makes you comfortable selling property to people whose Wikipedia entries have quite long entries under “human rights”."

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The first financial scandal/crisis to defeat all attempts at satire. There's nothing to say

Is he? Best time to call time on a bubble is when it’s about to pop. Otherwise, you’re just a Cassandra w/o bearings. Surely ppl overown and over invest the US partly out of lack of alternatives. Partly because U.S. productivity and profits are on roll.

Lügen in der Politik: Dark FDP Die FDP hat die Öffentlichkeit wochenlang belogen. Eine rein moralische Empörung darüber führt jedoch nicht weit. Denn das zentrale Problem liegt woanders.

Über FDP Noir, Lügen in der Politik und Vertrauen ins System. www.zeit.de/kultur/2024-...

Was bei Axel Springer kein Karrierehindernis ist Im Oktober 2021 brach im Berliner Axel Springer-Verlag ein Vulkan aus. Hinter der Fassade hatte es schon lange gebrodelt, und nun wurde es für alle Welt sichtbar: Der damalige Chefredakteur der BILD, ...

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An Economist cover in black and white, with the red logo top left, which quotes Javier Milei saying "My contempt for the state is infinite". The image is Milei staring down the barrel of the camera

On Monday Kinley Salmon, our Latin America correspondent, interviewed Javier Milei in Buenos Aires

Our cover story examines his dramatic reform programme in Argentina, one year after he took office, and the lessons it holds for the rest of the world