Posts Tagged ‘global trade’

Trump Prompts a Huge Mounjaro Price Hike in the UK

August 15, 2025 — It should have been easy to see this coming. U.S. President Donald Trump complained about Americans being “ripped off” by drug prices that are much higher in the U.S. than other countries. He specifically called out the low price of obesity drugs in the UK. So Eli Lilly and Company knew just what to do. […]

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Exporting American Obesity

May 16, 2015 — Are we exporting American obesity to the global south? Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal accelerate the export of obesity to Asia and limit policy options for curbing it? These are reasonable questions to ask, but no one seems really interested in answering them in the midst of a hot debate about this trade deal. The […]