Scott Lincicome: How Much Will You Pay To 'Buy American'?
What is the relationship between Trump's tariffs and the rest of the economy?
What is the relationship between Trump's tariffs and the rest of the economy?
Collections represented a surge in imports trying to beat higher rates—with a slump to follow.
The president has spent six months promising to make everything more expensive, and polls show that Americans have noticed.
Brazil’s judiciary has abandoned neutrality, with sweeping crackdowns on speech and political rivals. A U.S. tariff response signals the crisis has gone international.
"Reading antidiscrimination laws to prohibit the voicing of views critical of a foreign state, or support thereof, would raise serious doubts about their constitutionality, which the Court must avoid."
Edinburgh was the Scottish economist's home and a place for anyone interested in a rich, varied, and liberal life.
The law transferred wealth from workers who lost their jobs to those who didn’t.
According to one analyst, the U.S. would need between 42,000 and 250,000 more acres growing tomatoes to replace Mexican imports.
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Most of Big E spends little on cleaning rivers or parks and far more on filing lawsuits.
Estreicher and Babbitt are right to conclude that Trump's tariffs violate the nondelegation doctrine, but wrong to reject other arguments against them.
The market has demonstrated it’s perfectly capable of fostering innovation and competition without government intervention.
The differences between teams raised the stakes, but now they’re gone.
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Increasing the cost of inputs and imported energy would make American exports less competitive.
It's an obvious abuse of emergency powers, a claim to unconstitutional delegation of legislative power, and a threat to the economy and the rule of law.
It might be the Trump administration's most foolish trade policy idea yet.
Rather than reducing government's role in space travel, the bills shovels more taxpayer money into an agency that is being outperformed by the private sector.
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Downtown Buenos Aires is a living testimony to the country's history of freedom and prosperity.
The diversity and quality of the briefs opposing Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs speaks for itself.
The Cato Institute and the New Civil Liberties Alliance urge the Federal Circuit to extend the logic of a decision against the president's far-reaching import taxes.
It spends $34 billion to subsidize shipbuilding, supply chains, and drone technology.
UPS, Yellow Corporation, and Boeing all gave into union demands. Massive layoffs followed.
Our brief explains why the Federal Circuit should uphold the Court of International Trade decision striking down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.
The president is torn between the economic concerns of his supporters and the demands of immigration hardliners.
Scenes from a trade war.
“There's no such thing as a free stadium,” says J.C. Bradbury. “You can't just pull revenue out of thin air.”
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In 2018, Trump hailed a trade deal with South Korea as "fair and reciprocal" and said it was "a historic milestone in trade." So much for that.
Yet another wasteful expense in the "big, beautiful bill."
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The Chamber of Commerce has called the tax a “disastrous” policy that threatens the state’s economy and its future as a tech hub.
Tourist traps aren't failures of imagination—they’re optimized cultural hubs built for your enjoyment.
Several of the items on the Declaration's list of grievances against King George III also apply to Donald Trump today.
Europe’s lower GDP, higher electricity prices, and strict environmental regulations impede the use of air conditioning, contributing to the continent’s annual 175,000 heat-related deaths.
In this painfully mediocre Jurassic Park franchise placeholder, even the hypocrisy is nostalgic.
This is what Washington calls compromise: The House proposes $1, the Senate proposes $2, and somehow, the government ends up spending $3.
Americans will continue to pay higher tariffs, while Vietnamese businesses won't pay anything. Whatever happened to reciprocity?
Vance cast the tie-breaking vote for a bill that will add $4 trillion to the debt. Meanwhile, immigrants are helping to keep the federal government's fiscal house of cards propped up.
A more effective reform is to let the market curb waste and reward innovation.
Republicans are creating a budgetary loophole that will allow Democrats to pass Medicare for All and pretend it costs almost nothing.
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