China vs. the U.S.: Permanent Normalized Trade Regret Welcome back to Friday. This is our weekly wrap-up of news about the economy, the ongoing collapse of expert authority, and epochal ...
The Free Traders Have It Backwards: America Doesn’t Need the World for Quality The next time you order a pint of hazy double IPA, you can thank the diversity, dynamism, ...
Patrick J. Buchanan: The Prophet of American Trade Policy When Pat Buchanan campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination in the 1990s, he made tariffs a central pillar of his platform. ...
The Optimal Tariff Is Much Higher Than We Thought In a working paper circulated this spring, economists Oleg Itskhoki of UCLA and Dmitry Mukhin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison revisit ...
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 ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday on ABC’s “Meet the Press” that the Trump administration’s trade negotiations with several Asian countries are “moving along very well.” Host Martha Raddatz said, “Let’s ...
Trump’s Optimum Tariff Strategy Is Working The textbooks warned us. They said if a country tried to impose tariffs, other countries would retaliate. A trade war would break out. Prices ...
Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday that President Donald Trump’s trade policies could create “the opportunity of a lifetime” for India. “We stand at a moment in history ...
President Donald Trump is threatening China with additional 50-percent tariffs in response to President Xi Jinping’s announcement that the communist country would impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States. Last week, ...
