The posh retailers across Boston are bracing for financial carnage after Donald Trump's latest salvo against Harvard's international students put a £3 billion economic engine at risk
The US President's June proclamation suspending student visas for Harvard-bound internationals has sent shockwaves through Newbury Street's glittering retail corridor, where wealthy Chinese students routinely splash thousands on designer trinkets without batting an eyelid.
Though federal judge Allison Burroughs temporarily scuppered Trump's plans, the writing's on the wall for an industry that's grown fat on foreign wallets.