Sprawl of duty: Trump’s tariff drama
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Once again President Donald Trump extended the deadline for spine-stiffening tariffs to go into effect on trading partners. We look at the effects of all the uncertainty. Brazil once dominated the world of football; we ask where it went wrong and assess the route to a comeback. And England’s historic obsession with trim, green lawns is fading (except at Wimbledon).
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| 1:22.0 | There was a time when one country dominated global football, Brazil. These days, it can barely hold its own |
| 1:29.3 | against regional minnows. We look at how it's gone wrong and spot a very economist fix |
| 1:35.1 | for its national governing body, structural reform. And more than most countries, England just |
| 1:43.0 | loves a lawn. |
| 1:44.8 | It's a product of the weather and the preponderance of sheep, |
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