What a week. Again. Donald Trump’s announcement on April 2nd of “reciprocal” tariffs on American imports (they are actually no such thing), was an act of economic vandalism that caused markets to plummet around the world, as we explained in our previous issue. With the tariffs due to take effect on April 9th, we could be pretty sure what was going to be on our cover this week. But we also knew there was a risk that, as he has done before, Mr Trump would change his mind. Had he called things off over the weekend, we had other options lined up as potential cover stories.