UM Todaytrade wars – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 CBC Manitoba: Manitoba has few options to ‘Trump-proof’ its economy in next 30 days, experts say https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-manitoba-manitoba-has-few-options-to-trump-proof-its-economy-in-next-30-days-experts-say/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/cbc-manitoba-manitoba-has-few-options-to-trump-proof-its-economy-in-next-30-days-experts-say/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2025 17:24:11 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=210844 Looking to global markets a long-term option, but '30 days is not a whole lot of time': U of M economist]]> While the reprieve may give businesses some room to build up inventories and explore potential alternative suppliers or markets, it’s not nearly enough time to make substantial structural changes in terms of production, a University of Manitoba economics professor says.

“In general, I would say 30 days is not a whole lot of time, and for big, big export volumes and big projects, it’s nowhere near going to be close enough,” said Fletcher Baragar.

To read the entire story which includes comments from UM Director of the Transport Institute, Barry Prentice, please follow the link to CBC Manitoba. 

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