To celebrate the 100th episode of the ECIPE Global Economy Podcast, host Fredrik Erixon welcomes Inu Manak, a distinguished trade policy expert and follow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in...

President Trump’s return to the White House means that trade policy will return to prominence. For one thing we know for certain is that he believes the US has done badly economically from the rest...

It was an event that looked like a thought. Rishi Sunak called this summer's British election the Fourth of July: America's Independence Day, the date when the thirteen American colonies broke away...

It must be the most remarkable comeback ever in democratic political history, but Donald Trump has won the Presidential election and will in January next year return to the White House. The whole...

My thesis in this essay is that we now live in an era of anti-economics. Just like antimatter is the opposite of ordinary matter, the Western public policy discourse now seems permeated by...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Dan Ikenson, the director of the Cato Institute's Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies. They start their discussion by talking about how free trade is seen in...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Dr Claudia Schmucker, the head of the Globalisation and the World Economy programme at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), about the WTO, G7, G20 - and Germany’s...

According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good rather than managing what’s bad'. However, US...

Fredrik Erixon talks to Frank Lavin, the founder and CEO of Export Now, who has served as U.S. Ambassador to Singapore and undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade. They discuss U.S. trade...

Trump’s rhetoric on trade during his election campaign set a bad tone for US trade policy in general, but also for EU-US trade relations. However, his views – or at least his rhetoric – on many...