Author: Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University

The UK would be lucky to avoid US tariffs – but a global trade war would hurt everyone

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The first weeks of the Donald Trump’s administration have been marked by a flurry of announcements and U-turns on US trade policy. One of the first decrees centred on Trump’s favourite word: tariffs. He announced that US consumers and businesses would be taxed an extra 25% when they bought Canadian or Mexican products. (Canadian oil […]

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How your online world could change if big tech companies like Google are forced to break up

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The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. If the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, […]

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where the tech giant goes from here

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A US judge has found that Google is a monopoly and has used this dominance to reinforce its market position. This ruling, which is subject to appeal, brings the US regulator close to the European Commission in its approach to tech giants such as Google, Meta, and Amazon. Regulators now agree that the nature of […]

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