Recent Market Tremors Renew a Challenge for the Press

Posted Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:30 am

Jon Allsop | CJR

Last week, market jitters rose up the news cycle, if not quite to the top of it. Three days after striking an apparent trade truce with China at the Group of 20 meeting in Buenos Aires, President Trump imperilled it when, last Tuesday, he tweeted that he is “a Tariff Man” ...

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Recent Market Tremors Renew a Challenge for the Press

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