Trade – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:58:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://brewminate.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/cropped-BrewBLogo01-32x32.jpg Trade – Brewminate: A Bold Blend of News and Ideas https://brewminate.com 32 32 Leaves across Ancient Continents: Tea and the Silk Road’s Cultural Currents https://brewminate.com/leaves-across-ancient-continents-tea-and-the-silk-roads-cultural-currents/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:06:26 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=262648 Tea was traded as currency, consumed as sustenance, elevated as ritual, and debated as medicine. Its journey reveals

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]]> From Seed to Empire: Coffee and the Making of an Imperial Atlantic World https://brewminate.com/from-seed-to-empire-coffee-and-the-making-of-an-imperial-atlantic-world/ Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:05:27 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=262664 The eighteenth century was the crucible of coffee’s New World history. What began with a few transplanted seedlings

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]]> From Empires to Expeditions: The Maritime Routes That Built Thailand’s Island Network https://brewminate.com/from-empires-to-expeditions-the-maritime-routes-that-built-thailands-island-network/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:29:03 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=262217 Far earlier than today’s ports and global supply chains, the seas around Thailand were a complex network of

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]]> When “America First” Means Exporters Last: Trump’s Trade Trap https://brewminate.com/when-america-first-means-exporters-last-trumps-trade-trap/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:37:53 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=257445 Trump has made it harder for American exporters to compete, not easier. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction:

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]]> Radhanites on the Road: Jewish Merchants and Medieval Global Trade https://brewminate.com/radhanites-jewish-merchants-and-global-trade-in-the-medieval-carolingian-era/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:37:20 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=257502 The Radhanite Jewish merchants were far more than peripheral actors in medieval history. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate

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]]> Tariff Shock: How Trump’s Trade Wars Hammer American Importers https://brewminate.com/tariff-shock-how-trumps-trade-wars-hammer-american-importers/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:36:43 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=257451 Economic nationalism has high domestic costs, even for those it aims to protect. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate

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]]> The Roots and Realities of the Trade Deficit in Early America https://brewminate.com/the-roots-and-realities-of-the-trade-deficit-in-early-america/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:36:09 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=257506 America’s early trade deficit was not merely a matter of accounting. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction In

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]]> Trump’s Trade Deficit Fallacy: Why His Economic War Is Built on a Myth https://brewminate.com/trumps-trade-deficit-fallacy-why-his-economic-war-is-built-on-a-myth/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:35:32 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=257456 Understanding what a trade deficit is and is not should be the starting point. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic

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]]> Small Businesses Are Being Crushed by Trump’s Trade Wars https://brewminate.com/small-businesses-are-being-crushed-by-trumps-trade-wars/ Thu, 22 May 2025 14:39:25 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=254347 The folly of the Trump administration’s trade policy is that it harms the very people it claims to

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]]> Trade, Trust, and Transition: Shaping the Next Transatlantic Chapter https://brewminate.com/trade-trust-and-transition-shaping-the-next-transatlantic-chapter/ Thu, 01 May 2025 14:02:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=253056 Pressing issues shaping the future of the transatlantic alliance. Introduction By Allison McManusManaging Director, National Security and International

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