Trump tariff rebuke, thoughts of a 100-year-old banker, and designer babies

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Trump tariff rebuke, thoughts of a 100-year-old banker, and designer babies

Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday I look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. When former Swiss banker Yves Oltramare first travelled to the United States aged 25, Donald Trump was still a toddler. Now 100, Oltramare looks back on an extraordinary life, although he is concerned about the country that he used to love so much – it’s “not unrealistic”, in his view, that Trump will have a third term as president. Unsurprisingly, the Swiss media welcomed the US Supreme Court’s decision to strike down US President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs. A victory for democracy, they said – but global economic uncertainty wouldn’t suddenly disappear. “For Donald Trump, this is a crushing blow, a magnitude 9 earthquake that he could well have done without less than nine months before the mid-term elections,” declared Le Temps in Geneva on Friday, a couple of hours after …

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