Trump tariffs latest: Musk shares video about ‘essential’ free market – as stocks continue to suffer

Long read: Of course this is dramatic – from your phone to iconic US diggers, global trade makes everything work By Ed Conway, economics and data editor Of course, this is dramatic. Of course, markets are slumping. Because if you take Donald Trump at his word (something investors are now finally beginning to do), he is attempting single-handedly to reverse and uproot decades worth of economic history in the space of a few months. Because if this really is “the end of globalisation”, as a few politicians, including Keir Starmer, are now calling it, it constitutes one of the most…