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Book Bits: 6 September 2025

The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy
Neil Shearing
Interview with author via Financial Times
It’s a widely held assumption that US President Donald Trump has put globalization into reverse. But Neil Shearing, group chief economist at Capital Economics and author of The Fractured Age: How the Return of Geopolitics Will Splinter the Global Economy, tells the FT’s world trade editor Peter Foster that Trump’s policies are a symptom and not the cause of the global trading system unravelling. They discuss how economic rivalry between the US and China is reshaping world trade – and where it might lead.

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