Carney said the U.S. approach to the talks would have made Canadian industries de-facto subsidiaries of American companies or imposed terms under which they would be “gradually wound down in Canada and wiped out.”
The bond market is growing more interesting lately — and that's concerning. Why it matters: The $160 trillion global bond market is like the plumbing in your house. You don't think about it until it stops working and you've got a nasty situation on your hands. The big picture: Long-term government bond yields for the U.S. and other G7 countries have been climbing — hovering at levels last seen in 2007 before the financial crisis — and raising concerns about borrowing costs growing more expensive for countries that are already staring down heavy debt loads. - The AI boom, meanwhile, has spread to the market for corporate bonds, sparking worries about a bubble. What to watch: It's a perfect moment to release a book laying out the…
America’s friends and adversaries alike believe the U.S. president can’t be trusted. The post Trump’s Broken Deals Make Foreign Policy Difficult appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Trump’s Broken Deals Make Foreign Policy Difficult America’s friends and adversaries alike believe the U.S. president can’t be trusted. Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney took to the airwaves on August 22 to explain in a speech and Q&A why he walked away from trade negotiations with the United States and thereby opened Canada to economy-crushing tariffs from the country once considered its closest friend. Carney gave three key reasons. The U.S. proposal, Carney said, demanded compromises on the protection of Canadian culture and the French language,…Open
The U.S.-Canada trade war has galvanized Canadians behind their prime minister’s decision to walk away from negotiations. What happens when the time comes for talks to restart?
Detailed accounts of the final hours of the negotiations show that, while the United States offered Canada what it said was the best deal of any country, what Canada had to give up in exchange was seen as unthinkable.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney walked away from a trade deal, saying the U.S. imposed tariffs on Toronto, escalating a trade war that will impact residents on both sides of the border. NewsNation's Cory Smith reports. More: https://tinyurl.com/4d83yy4t #MarkCarney #tariffs #economy
On Saturday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said last-minute changes in trade talks with the United States “were uneconomic, unfair, and undermined the net benefits for Canada,” and called into question the reliability of any deal. #cnn #shorts #markcarney #canada #uscanada #tariffs #tradewar
Canada’s prime minister walked away from what he thought was a bad trade deal with the United States. Many Canadians are behind him, but it will be costly.
The president has been publicly feuding with Giorgia Meloni since last month's G7 summit.
Iran doesn’t have to be America’s reckoning. The post Lose the Battle, Win the Century appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs Lose the Battle, Win the Century Iran doesn’t have to be America’s reckoning. Washington is once again in the throes of a postwar autopsy. Did the United States win in Iran? America’s latest military operation was launched, seemingly, to achieve regime change and permanent denuclearization. It ended with a messy ceasefire, a still-defiant adversary, and a war powers debate Congress will never resolve. By the standards Washington set for itself, the campaign did not deliver. Tehran’s government did not collapse. The Strait of Hormuz blockade dragged on for months. And it was a negotiated ceasefire, not the final…Open