Tariffs latest: ‘BE COOL’, Trump says online, as trade war with China escalates

In-depth analysis: Trump’s plan appeared to work, for a bit – now the world watches anxiously By Gurpreet Narwan, business and economics correspondent Is there method to the madness? Donald Trump and his acolytes would have you believe so. The US president is standing firm among all the market chaos. Just this weekend, after US stock markets suffered their sharpest falls since the onset of the pandemic, Trump reposted a video on his social media platform Truth Social. This was its title: “Trump is purposefully CRASHING the market.” The video claimed the president was engineering a flight to US government…