{"id":30959,"date":"2025-01-20T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-threatens-a-global-trade-war-europe-must-unleash-a-radical-alternative-gabriel-zucman\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T08:30:14","slug":"trump-threatens-a-global-trade-war-europe-must-unleash-a-radical-alternative-gabriel-zucman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-threatens-a-global-trade-war-europe-must-unleash-a-radical-alternative-gabriel-zucman\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike tariffs, a new form of protectionism could target climate-wrecking, untaxed corporations and their billionaire owners<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabriel Zucman is a French economist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p>How should Europe respond before Donald Trump\u2019s policies destabilise the global economy? All countries will soon have to take a stand on the new US president\u2019s tariff threats. While a shift away from free trade clearly carries risks, it also presents a valuable opportunity to reimagine our outdated international economic relations \u2013 if we can grasp what makes this moment unique.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, Trump\u2019s economic agenda follows the Republican party playbook that dates back to Barry Goldwater\u2019s 1964 presidential run, which launched the party\u2019s enduring mission to dismantle Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/15\/opinion\/trump-mckinley-tarriffs.html\">claims<\/a> the US was never better off than under William McKinley\u2019s presidency (1897-1901), when the federal government, before income tax existed, was pared down to a minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Zucman is professor of economics at the Paris School of Economics and \u00c9cole normale sup\u00e9rieure \u2013 PSL, and founding director of the EU Tax Observatory<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/20\/trump-threatens-a-global-trade-war-europe-must-unleash-a-radical-alternative\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike tariffs, a new form of protectionism could target climate-wrecking, untaxed corporations and their billionaire owners Gabriel Zucman is a French economist How should Europe respond before Donald Trump\u2019s policies destabilise the global economy? All countries will soon have to take a stand on the new US president\u2019s tariff threats. While a shift away from &#8230; <a title=\"Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-threatens-a-global-trade-war-europe-must-unleash-a-radical-alternative-gabriel-zucman\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump threatens a global trade war. Europe must unleash a radical alternative | Gabriel Zucman\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}