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NeutralTariffs
leaning · 2026-08-14
Ros Mathieson (Bloomberg News) tells Guy Johnson the 100% drone tariffs are tit-for-tat table-setting before the Trump-Xi summit and neither side can afford a full-blown trade conflict.
Xi Jinping has the similar incentive at home, but equally they don't and cannot afford to have a resumption of a full blown trade conflict on either side.
Ros Mathieson (Bloomberg News) tells Guy Johnson that prior efforts to isolate Iran have not worked and it is unclear what pressure Bessent's new economic isolation plan can add.
so far the efforts to isolate Iran haven't really succeeded. The regime has many, many years of the ability to withstand sanctions and other financial and economic pressure.
WTI crude since this was said: ▲ +12.3% · 82.40 → 92.54 · as of 2026-09-08
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