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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Swissquote Group is committed to continue expanding its leading position in online financial services by providing unique tools for the personal investment needs of its clients. Headquartered in Gland, the Swissquote group is Switzerland’s leading provider of online financial and trading services. With additional offices in Zürich, Bern, Malta, Hong Kong and Dubai, the company caters to private and institutional clients by offering electronic trading of over 1.5 million instruments worldwide, proven eForex solutions, an innovative ePrivate Banking service, eMortgages and flexible savings accounts...

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