When the Chips Are Down, Tariffs Beat Subsidies President Donald Trump this week said he is planning to impose a 100 percent tariff on imported computer chips unless manufacturers are ...
Bessent Will Be Ready for His Next Mission: Make the Fed Great Again Scott Bessent says he’s happy at Treasury. He has every reason to be. The tax cuts are ...
The Freak-Out Over the Bureau of Labor Statistics The July jobs report landed with a thud—just 73,000 new payrolls, almost all in health care and social assistance. And then came ...
Bessent Celebrates the ‘Trump Boom’ with Breitbart: ‘Ya Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ At a policy event this morning hosted by Breitbart News, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent responded to the news ...
When Tariff Inflation Went Missing, the Fed Invented a New Theory to Explain It The Federal Reserve’s latest minutes give us more than monetary policy tea leaves. They offer a ...
CBO Confirms: Receivership Is the Best Way to End the Fannie-Freddie Bailout The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a new report laying out how it will evaluate budgetary proposals ...
The Push and Pull of Tariffs on American Households One reason economists continue to be surprised by incoming data is that American households are stubbornly refusing to behave the way ...
The Grand Old Tariff Party Is Back For years, the Republican Party treated tariffs as a kind of ideological sin — a rejection of Reaganite orthodoxy, an unpardonable offense against ...
The San Francisco Fed’s Economists Just Accidentally Vindicated Trump’s Escalating Tariff Policy If you were trying to make tariffs look like a policy disaster, you’d do exactly what a team ...
The “Good Vibrations” Economy One of the best kept secrets in the world today is that Americans are feeling far better about the economy than they have in years. You ...
