These 4 Industries Successfully Lobbied Trump for Tariff Exemptions
Trump's trade war has created a carve-out bonanza for industries with political connections and big lobbying budgets.
Trump's trade war has created a carve-out bonanza for industries with political connections and big lobbying budgets.
The MAGA loyalty that Trump demands is anathema to everything that originalism is supposed to be about.
The real case for free trade is not "my enemies hate it" or "it's cheaper for me, personally" but "it makes the world richer, freer, and more peaceful."
Out-of-control housing costs helped Trump win the 2024 election. Is he about to make the problem worse?
The podcasts cover the case and its relationship to the more general problem of abuse of emergency powers.
DOGE says regulatory changes will save $29.4 billion, but that does not amount to a reduction in government outlays, the initiative's ostensible target.
Both are wins for free trade, but only one vindicates the separation of powers.
For both practical and constitutional reasons, this is the obvious way out of the chaos Trump's tariffs have created.
It explains how the ruling is a win for separation of powers and the rule of law.
Hawks in Washington often make it sound hard to end conflicts with other countries, but the United States and Syria are fixing relations overnight.
The Wall Street Journal, CBC, and Time published good articles on the story behind the case filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself.
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Some of the more informative interviews I have done about our win in the case against Trump's tariffs, in lawsuit filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself.
The decision by Judge Rudolph Contreras of the US District Court for the District Columbia holds IEEPA doesn't authorize the president to impose tariffs at all.
This is a standard order imposing a brief stay of the trial court ruling, while the parties litigate the issue of whether a longer stay should be imposed.
Reagan's budget chief warns that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could balloon the national debt to $60 trillion, risking a catastrophic bond market crisis.
No. One of the judges in Wednesday's unanimous ruling was a Trump appointee, and the ruling rested on important legal and constitutional principles.
If the Trump administration fails to implement real reform, Main Street taxpayers could once again be conscripted into subsidizing lucrative Wall Street deals.
The Court of International Trade just issued a decision striking down Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs and other IEEPA tariffs.
The Court of International Trade ruled that Trump's emergency economic powers do not include the authority to impose tariffs on nearly all imports.
Musk's opinion about the bill matters, since he is one of the few people in conservative politics who can get away with defying Trump.
I spoke along with my Cato colleague Walter Olson.
There's only one way to eliminate the scalping market: Charge more for tickets.
Giving the Defense Department even more taxpayer money is a recipe for waste, not security.
The debate over free trade should include more than the costs of Trump's tariffs versus the value of cheaper stuff.
While there is no constitutional right to receive grants, the Constitution does bar grant conditions that undermine constitutional rights.
Like that in the similar case filed by Liberty Justice Center and myself, this one indicated judicial skepticism of Trump's claims to virtually unlimited power to impose tariffs.
Did mainstream conservatives and libertarians lose a generation of young men to the reactionary right?
Whether due to tariffs or because they are made in America, the result would be much higher prices.
The more important the product—and food certainly ranks high on any list—the better it is to allow markets to work.
Even simulated entrepreneurs aren't free from the burdens of business registration fees.
Higher debt means lower wages, higher interest rates, and fewer opportunities, says Romina Boccia of the Cato Institute.
Middlebury professor Gary Winslett argues the South—not China—poached the Rust Belt’s manufacturing base by out-competing it on policy.
The executive order is likely unconstitutional, but if implemented as written, it would be detrimental to the American health care market.
The Federal Trade Commission was established to protect consumers. Under Biden and Trump, its focus has shifted.
The lesson from the Moody's credit downgrade is that the U.S. cannot borrow its way to prosperity.
I was interviewed by Brittany Lewis of Forbes.
That total could double if temporary provisions in the bill become permanent, as is likely to happen.
I will be speaking, along with Cato Institute scholar Walter Olson.
Government schools now spend about $20,000 per student.
That logic implausibly assumes presidents have the power to curtail substance abuse by attacking the drug supply.
Subaru says it has "adjusted its pricing in response to current market conditions," but we all know what that means.