Repulsive Replacement Theory and Economic Delusions
Plus: The editors each point out one key disagreement they have with one another.
Plus: The editors each point out one key disagreement they have with one another.
Plus: The Pro-Choice Caucus thinks choice is a harmful word, trade restrictions worsened the baby formula shortage, and more...
Why do we have tariffs on imported formula in the middle of a shortage?
Protectionist policies stymie trade and make Americans poorer.
Tariffs requested by an "artisanal solar boutique" based in San Jose might jeopardize 45,000 jobs and halve America's future solar panel deployments.
Biden says reducing prices is his "top priority" but his economic agenda suggests the opposite.
China ended up buying fewer American goods over the past two years than it did before the trade war started, despite promises from both sides to increase trade.
Nothing new under the sun as Biden decides to extend Trump's solar panel tariffs for four more years.
Those who demand a revival of antitrust regulation to "promote competition" may not realize that they're inciting a revival of cronyism to suppress competition.
Plus: College students and speech, state-funded pre-K fail, and more...
Using "we" implies a collective responsibility, creates the false impression that most people are on board, and hints that we'll share equally in the benefits.
For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world.
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Trump's tariffs are adding an estimated 0.5 percent to annual inflation.
Instead of taking his own actions to undo an unlawful order from the former chief executive, President Joe Biden had the government's attorneys argue in favor of even greater trade powers for the White House.
Biden will allow 3.3 million metric tons of European-made steel to be imported annually without tariffs. After that, Trump's 25 percent tariffs will remain in force.
If the power to his house went out during a storm, one assumes Hawley would declare electricity to be a mistake and demand that homes be lit with candles.
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They favor special interests, hurt consumers, and have utterly failed to rein in China.
The trade deficit is now the widest on record too.
Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai stresses the need for American competitiveness at the same time that the White House is pushing huge tax increases on U.S. businesses. And that's just the start.
A new study shows that former President Donald Trump's tariffs did little to push American companies out of China.
What good is protectionism that isn't protecting anything?
New GAO report says the process for determining which companies could avoid paying those tariffs was rife with "inconsistencies" and poorly documented decision-making.
Taxing Americans to punish other countries for having lax environmental rules would be a logistical and bureaucratic nightmare. Democrats are trying to do it anyway.
The never-released Trump administration report is a reminder that "national security" is usually a bogus reason to impose tariffs
We don't have a gridlock problem. We have a spending problem.
Trade news worth celebrating with a fine French wine.
A hundred-year-old protectionist law that makes traffic worse and goods more expensive.
Lockdowns, tariffs, and other market interventions made wood an expensive commodity.
The Commerce Department is planning to hike tariffs on Canadian lumber from about 9 percent to more than 18 percent.
American consumers are bearing nearly 93 percent of the costs of the tariffs applied to Chinese goods, according to Moody's Investors Service.
Monday's announcement of a truce in the conflict is good. Peace would be better. Biden should drop Trump's steel tariffs.
Trump imposed huge tariffs on imported steel and Biden is keeping them in place even as American businesses beg for relief.
Disruptions to trade are bad for the world, whether you can see them or not.
Why border activity doesn't look that much different under the Biden administration, and how the media framed the Atlanta shootings
Rather than undoing Trump's disastrous trade policies, Democrats in the White House and Congress appear to be entrenching the tariffs as a key part of U.S. trade policy.
The president's approach to immigration, trade, and industry may sound familiar.
The announcement signals a possible deescalation in the transatlantic trade war and raises hopes for a U.S.-U.K. trade agreement.
Trump's trade policies caused "a lot of disruption and consternation," Tai said at one point during Thursday's hearing. "I want to accomplish similar goals in a more effective process."
Biden's new trade representative should outline a plan to remove the economically nonsensical and politically pointless tariffs on European steel and aluminum in order to deescalate this costly conflict.
Further evidence that tariffs simply don't make sense as trade policy. President Joe Biden should take note.
Reimplementing 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imported from the United Arab Emirates for vacuous national security reasons only entrenches executive authority over trade.
Biden should repeal Trump's food taxes immediately.
Biden is seeking unity, but bipartisan agreement on bad policy is nothing to cheer for.
Five reasons why Trump's trade war didn't go the way he thought it would.
Sen. Josh Hawley, a supporter of Trump's trade policies, lobbied to give a special exemption to a Missouri-based power tools manufacturer. Many other elected officials did too.