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Thomas Kika
Once again Starmer addresses the nation – with nothing to say
Vacation plans implode across America as Trump massacres the economy
Hungary’s Surplus Narrows in February as Imports Rise Faster Than Exports – Budapest Business Journal
Reeves must listen to supermarkets rather than lecture them
Why Trump gets a basic rule of economics ‘so wrong’: conservative
FTSE 100 Live: Stocks inch up; Fuel shortage fears hit airlines; Unilever nears food deal
Trump’s base starts asking the questions he hates most
Is There Really a Necessity for Bank Consolidation in Hungary? – Budapest Business Journal
WSJ chastises the Trump admin for ‘dumb industrial policy’
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Thomas Kika Once again Starmer addresses the nation – with nothing to say Vacation plans implode across America as Trump massacres the economy Hungary’s Surplus Narrows in February as Imports Rise Faster Than Exports – Budapest Business Journal Reeves must listen to supermarkets rather than lecture them Why Trump gets a basic rule of economics ‘so wrong’: conservative FTSE 100 Live: Stocks inch up; Fuel shortage fears hit airlines; Unilever nears food deal Trump’s base starts asking the questions he hates most Is There Really a Necessity for Bank Consolidation in Hungary? – Budapest Business Journal WSJ chastises the Trump admin for ‘dumb industrial policy’
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Thomas Kika April 03, 2026 President Donald Trump has made major shake-ups in his Cabinet this month, with some high-profile firings, but according to a new analysis from The Bulwark, these moves boil down to making women “scapegoats” for his administration’s big failures. In early March, Trump marked the first major firing of his second

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Vacation plans implode across America as Trump massacres the economy

Vacation plans implode across America as Trump massacres the economy

More and more Americans are finding that not even a nice vacation can save them from President Donald Trump’s chaos. According to a Thursday report from Bloomberg, skyrocketing gas prices across the U.S. in the wake of Trump’s war in Iran have led a growing number of Americans to scale back or outright scrap their

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Hungary’s Surplus Narrows in February as Imports Rise Faster Than Exports – Budapest Business Journal

Hungary’s Surplus Narrows in February as Imports Rise Faster Than Exports – Budapest Business Journal

Hungary’s surplus in external trade in goods reached EUR 665 million in February, narrowing by EUR 342 mln year-on-year as import growth outpaced exports, according to the latest data. According to data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), export volume fell by 2.3% compared with the same month a year earlier, while import volume

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Reeves must listen to supermarkets rather than lecture them

Reeves must listen to supermarkets rather than lecture them

Wednesday 01 April 2026 5:21 am  |   Updated:  Tuesday 31 March 2026 6:10 pm Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves. PA Photo. Yui Mok/PA Wire Supermarkets begin preparing for Christmas at least six months before the anticipated peak of customer demand hits around December 23. Catering for this entirely predictable surge is in itself an

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Why Trump gets a basic rule of economics ‘so wrong’: conservative

Why Trump gets a basic rule of economics ‘so wrong’: conservative

During a Tuesday, March 31 appearance on MS NOW host Ari Melber’s show “The Beat,” liberal economist Paul Krugman delivered some bad news about gas prices —which, he warned, are going to get even higher if U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against Iran lasts a long time. Krugman explained that “the world has been living

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FTSE 100 Live: Stocks inch up; Fuel shortage fears hit airlines; Unilever nears food deal

FTSE 100 Live: Stocks inch up; Fuel shortage fears hit airlines; Unilever nears food deal

Tuesday 31 March 2026 6:29 am  |   Updated:  Tuesday 31 March 2026 9:35 am Oil prices have climbed sharply since war in the Middle East broke out Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. Oil prices are on track for its biggest monthly gain on record for March following the outbreak of

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Is There Really a Necessity for Bank Consolidation in Hungary? – Budapest Business Journal

Is There Really a Necessity for Bank Consolidation in Hungary? – Budapest Business Journal

Some portray Hungary’s banking sector as fragmented; certainly, Minister for National Economy Márton Nagy seems to think so. Yet others say core indicators suggest a system that is profitable, well capitalized and structurally stable. Bernadett Herman, banking market expert and contributor to the Hungarian financial and business news portal Privátbankár, tells the Budapest Business Journal

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WSJ chastises the Trump admin for ‘dumb industrial policy’

WSJ chastises the Trump admin for ‘dumb industrial policy’

President Donald Trump meddled in the free market during his first term and created a “dumb industrial policy” that he is only now starting to fix, according to a prominent conservative newspaper. In a Monday evening editorial, The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board claimed telecom mogul Charlie Ergen had been rescued by a regulatory system