With the (not so) new man in the White House, it has been a busy first three quarters of 2025 for the global economics punditry. Such are the times that even the writer of this blog was occasionally asked to leave the ivory tower to comment on current affairs. While I found it difficult to update this space in real time over the last couple of months, here is a round-up of my recent media contributions:
An article by Jürg Meier in the NZZ in which I commented about the macroeconomic uncertainty created by Liberation day: NZZ 06 April — NZZ‘s Albert Steck about Apple and the global reconfiguration of supply chains (NZZ 26 April) — And Simon Schmidt quoting me on some of key questions of US trade policy in two articles for Tagesanzeiger (here and here).
Just around Trump’s “liberation day”, my own employer’s UZH News published a series on “Europe’s future“, drawing on insights from UZH-researchers across disciplines. One of the pieces was a joint interview with my colleague and economic historian Tobias Straumann on why Europe should have more confidence in itself. See here and, in German, here.
The Sunday Times also had a piece by Hannah Prevett on the Swiss “39 percent on everything” tariff shock in early August to which I contributed (paywall).