Finance & economics | America v the world

The biggest losers from Trumponomics

America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows

A globe with the American continent looming over another globe of the rest of the world
Illustration: Daniel Liévano
|Singapore and Washington, DC

ACROSS CABINET tables, boardrooms and diplomatic missions this week, one topic of discussion has overshadowed all others. The sweeping victory of Donald Trump and the Republican Party in America’s elections will give huge powers to an impulsive president with unorthodox economic beliefs and a belligerent approach to negotiation. Bigwigs in government and business all over are scrambling to analyse the consequences—for America and for the rest of the world.

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