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Trump and Canada. Can This Marriage Be Saved? Aug. 05, 2025
WASHINGTON — Can this marriage be saved? Relations between Canada and President Donald Trump w... Read More
Tariff Folly May. 14, 2025
Last month, President Donald Trump proudly announced, "Liberation Day! ... The day American industry... Read More
You Can't Make America Great Again With Tariffs Mar. 04, 2025
On Nov. 5, 2024, Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, defeating Joe Biden and re... Read More
Trade War: The Pain Starts with Shame Feb. 04, 2025
Never mind how Donald Trump's threatened trade war ultimately pans out. Though a 25% border tax woul... Read More
America Leaps Into China's Way of Competing Jun. 17, 2021
China is America's economic rival. The way capitalists deal with rivals is to compete. President Joe... Read More
The Damaging Protectionism of Trump -- and Biden May. 30, 2021
When he became president, Joe Biden summarily reversed his predecessor's policies on a range of issu... Read More
Americans Like Free Trade. Trump and Biden Don't. Sep. 17, 2020
President John F. Kennedy once noted, "There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and ... Read More
Trump's War on Economic Freedom: In the President's Mind, Trade Is Not a Right to Be Respected but a Process to Be Managed by Politicians Aug. 26, 2020
If Donald Trump's sister is right that he "has no principles," he does at least have a few enduring ... Read More
V-Shaped Economic Recovery Requires Freer Trade, Not Tariffs Aug. 18, 2020
It seems obvious that President Donald Trump is going to need a blockbuster economic revival if he h... Read More
Surface-Level Public Policy Prescriptions Exacerbate the Pandemic Apr. 09, 2020
A pandemic is not the time for imprudent public policies. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 crisis, like m... Read More
Trump's Derivative Tariffs Continue Faulty Narrative Jan. 30, 2020
The Tariff Man has done it again. President Donald Trump recently announced that he will expand impo... Read More
Pass USMCA Trade Deal Before Year's End Dec. 19, 2019
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, is not a perfect trade deal for a number of rea... Read More
USMCA Is Good; Now Let's Do More Dec. 17, 2019
In 1993, the year before the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect, the United States expo... Read More
I Welcome Imports, and so Should You Oct. 10, 2019
The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services increased to $54.9 billion in August, up from $54.0 bil... Read More
Is China the Country of the Future? Oct. 04, 2019
"Who Lost China?" With the fall of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the defeat of his ... Read More
Hush, Little Voter, Don't Say a Word (About Tariffs) Oct. 03, 2019
There are many bad ideas flying around right now in Congress. The recent proposal by Sen. Tom Cotton... Read More
Trump Is Right on the China Threat Aug. 28, 2019
President Trump's latest foray into the world of international economics — his ongoing trade w... Read More
Trump's Mexico Tariffs Threaten the US Economy Jun. 02, 2019
When it comes to the economy, Donald Trump was born on third base and claims he hit a triple. But no... Read More
It's Time for a Course Correction in the Trade War May. 16, 2019
President Donald Trump and his supporters often tell us that he is fundamentally a free trader. The ... Read More
Even Politics Can't Derail Surging Politics (Yet) May. 14, 2019
It's a testament to the strength and resilience of the national economy that it keeps surging ahead ... Read More
