Larry Kudlow Is a Big Upgrade for Trump's White House
Let's hope he mitigates the president's worst protectionist instincts.
Let's hope he mitigates the president's worst protectionist instincts.
From "bowling ball tests" to tariffs, the president doesn't know what he's talking about. His ignorance grows more dangerous each day.
"Tariffs will inadvertently drive the price of American steel higher," says American Keg CEO Paul Czachor.
You cannot advocate trade restrictions without also advocating state-bestowed privilege.
If he believes this economically illiterate nonsense, he shouldn't be trusted to run the Department of Commerce. If he doesn't believe it, neither should you.
A 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum will take effect in 15 days, unless GOP lawmakers take unusual steps to stop them.
The benefits of a huge new tariff on steel will be highly concentrated in the steel industry, while the costs will be borne by other parts of the economy.
And the EU's response to the tariffs will whack workers who build motorcycles.
When it comes to trade, the president believes a lot of nonsense.
Senator tells Reason "most of the businesses in Kentucky are quite worried about a trade war." But will a weak Congress confront Trump?
John Stossel says voluntary, free trade improves lives.
The proposed tariffs are an exercise in ego, not economics.
President's hasty new "trade war" will damage the American economy while continuing his process of removing tariff-reduction from two-party politics.
And they'll make lots of other things more expensive too.
When anyone says, "I'm for free trade, but it must be fair trade," they are really saying: "I am not for free trade."
Will the economic and social benefits of the solar panel tariffs outweigh their costs? Not likely.
The International Trade Commission recommends the president impose hefty tariffs on washing machines.
Protectionist measures hurt American workers and consumers.
Trump, tariffs and the art of the deal
A bankrupt Chinese-owned taxpayer-subsidized company that's asking for protection against Chinese imports.
Steel imports are no more a threat to U.S. national security than imported sugar or lumber or tulips.
Be it cigarettes, imported products, or even labor.
Federal trade court rules that lazy coziness will be taxed at a lower rate.
A Mexican senator will introduce a bill to end all corn imports from the U.S.
Trump's unusual fusionism puts anti-WTO libertarians on the spot.
Americans have always limited trade-and always defied those limits.
Democrats vote against aid to "displaced workers" as they try to scuttle fast-track authority for Obama.
Goods slapped with tariffs as politicians battle
Those jeans are getting tighter
Restrictions on some U.S. steel products were in place because Chinese officials believed producers were the recipients of subsidies
Trade war would ultimately hurt United States, they argue
Why not just cut each worker a check for a fraction of the price?
China's subsidies bad. America's subsidies good! Go America!
Tariffs, trusts, corporate-state collusion and "communism of pelf" did not equal free markets