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On Aug. 18, 2016, Donald Trump tweeted: “They will soon be calling me MR BREXIT!” This was a surprise, as just a couple of months earlier Trump didn’t appear to know what “Brexit” meant.
A cliché—“Expect the Unexpected”—has happened. As I noted in “The Divisive Brexit Vote”, though I favoured Brexit, I took the opinion polls at face value, and expected that Britain as ...
Here's Why Brexit Wasn't Followed By Frexit, Swexit Or Nexit After Britain voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, many feared other countries would follow and the EU might collapse.
Need to Know Trump’s tariffs are America’s Brexit, says this strategist. These are the trades to make. U.K. bonds, Europe stocks and bitcoin should be considered ...
How Brexit Failed England's Premier Fishing Town Grimsby, blaming the EU for decades of decline, voted overwhelmingly to leave. It hasn't helped—and may have made matters worse.
Even if Brexit was not their main cause, the blunt reality is that it has become the blameworthy backdrop to the post-pandemic economic malaise of low growth, rampant inflation, and cost-of-living ...
Since last week’s Brexit vote, new evidence has emerged suggesting that the result many have been influenced by widespread political ignorance. In the immediate aftermath of the vote, there was ...
When considering the impact on food prices since December 2019, just before Britain formally left the EU, they estimated the cost of Brexit to UK households at 6.95 billion pounds ($8.77 billion ...
Brexit divided Britain as never before. Not only did it split the country over the question on the referendum paper, it also created two new identity tribes, Remainers and Leavers. It was a story ...
Brexit was (mostly) about freedom, not (primarily) about money. But when you make as many mistakes as the Conservatives have done in government, you will reap the reward of your failures.
Brexit has erected trade barriers for UK businesses and foreign companies that used Britain as a European base. It’s weighing on imports and exports, sapping investment and contributing to labor ...