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Which raises the possibility that the Taco trade will eat itself. (We are indebted to the FT’s markets guru Katie Martin for that phrase.) The markets could become overconfident, taking Trump neither ...
Robert Armstrong Oh yes, and that’s been, that’s your legacy. That is the first paragraph of Katie Martin’s obituary is Katie ...
President Donald Trump didn't like his new nickname 'TACO'. Here's why people are calling Trump TACO and the meaning behind TACO trade.
US trade data published on Thursday provides the first opportunity to see how Trump’s “liberation day” trade war, unveiled on April 2, applied in practice that month. The “effective tariff rate” ...
This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Stock market party but why?’ Katie Martin Stock markets are in ...
The acronym stands for "Trump always chickens out" a jab at the president's propensity to impose or threaten steep tariffs ...
It was Robert who coined the phrase “Trump always chickens out” (Taco). The pattern is that the US president will promise to impose massive tariffs on a chosen target. But he will then later cut or ...
A Financial Times columnist has coined the term "TACO trade," saying Trump always chickens out of his tariff orders. What is ...
Donald Trump’s tariff announcements are giving him less and less Taco time to put them into reverse ... Charted Waters, where we look at the data behind world trade, is on imports to the US. Today’s ...
There's a new stock market meme that's guiding investors as they navigate the uncertainty of 2025. It's called TACO: Trump ...
There's a popular nickname for how to play Trump trade policy: the "TACO Trade." But investors have mixed opinions about whether it's a safe bet.