THE IMPERIALISM OF FINANCE CAPITAL AND ‘TRADE WARS’

August 7, 2018

Donald Trump is a mercurial world leader. He seems to disdain the old order, the mechanisms of globalization set up with great care by the imperialist bloc after the fall of the USSR and the Third World Project. On his second day in office, Trump signed an executive order to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and scrap the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). He followed up with tariffs on key commodities that would impact the European Union and China as well as Canada and Mexico.

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Torstone Technology simplifies the complexities of post-trade, by connecting global financial industry expertise with post-trade technology innovation. We are a leading global provider of cross-asset securities and derivatives post-trade processing technology. Torstone’s modern, award-winning Inferno platform is fast, flexible and future-proof. It enables global financial firms to reduce their costs, achieve greater control, minimise risk, and drive operational efficiency.

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