[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758095725.mp3"] The US is learning a lesson the hard way as the intensified tariff war it waged against China and the rest of the world has inflicted more pain at home relative to its targets. The current Trump administration sought to penalize its trade partners – virtually the rest of the world – for running a trade deficit against...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758095393.mp3"] While global central banks hold steady, Brazil is charting its own path as it raises rates, battles inflation, and tests investor confidence. The key interest rate in Brazil has reached 15 per cent since June 2025, its highest level since 2023. While global inflation remains under pressure due to the US-waged tariff war, the broader trend across major...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758095177.mp3"] The UK is battling several fires at once, with possibilities of high domestic living costs rising amid a worsening global trade war. Can the government soften the blow by signing new trade deals? The British economy is taking a beating from rising living costs, which is exacerbated further by a tariff war waged by the US. Inflation has...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758094549.mp3"] The global economy is changing rapidly, though the German export-dependent economy is lost behind – only huge reforms can solve the problems. If one knocks on the door of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ask for their expectation about the German economy, they will say the GDP growth this year will be 0.1 per cent – surprisingly...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758094302.mp3"] Southern Eurozone member-states will benefit in the short term from ever-growing mass tourism, but it is hard to say that anything has fundamentally improved during the last year. Since US President Donald Trump took over the Oval Office again, three American knights have visited Europe. The first knight was the nearest representative to the new president in town...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758092921.mp3"] China is working quickly on opening wider trade routes with Latin America, a tactical move to broaden its export markets in the face of highly volatile trade with the US. China has been quick on its feet in finding new ports to accept its goods as they are – no hefty duties attached. The first half of 2025...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758093235.mp3"] India’s growth blazes ahead of its peers, with the local manufacturing sector unshaken by global trade disruptions. India is poised to keep its title as the fastest-growing major economy in the world despite the highly disruptive tariff war. Its GDP growth, although to possibly soften this 2025, will most likely remain close to 6 per cent and easily...

[sc_embed_player fileurl="https://app.lundgreensinvestorinsights.com/public/audios/1758092528.mp3"] As regional threats intensify, Japan is rewriting its postwar defence stance – signalling a strategic turn in Asia’s security landscape. Japan’s defence industry is undergoing a significant transformation in an attempt to catch up to other military powers. Historically, Japan has been constrained by postwar pacifist principles. This has culminated in policies such as the 1967 Three Principles...