New 21% Tariff Will Make Fresh Tomatoes More Expensive
Trump hopes you like tomato sauce!
Trump hopes you like tomato sauce!
If lots of Americans wanted factory jobs, the domestic labor market would look very different.
Predictions vary as to the ultimate cost, but there’s no doubt that tariffs create economic pain.
Daniel Hannan argues that protectionism never works, but that's a lesson that politicians and voters seemingly have to relearn repeatedly.
Protectionism in Egypt and Iraq fueled corruption, stagnation, and smuggling—not prosperity.
Although the president's pride in his negotiation skills could save us, it is hard to see what sort of deal would address his grievance about the consequences of economic freedom.
Eliminating the tariff exemption on low-value Chinese imports is bad news.
Dynamists, protectionists, hawks, and doves are seeing their policy goals realized in the most bungling and incompetent fashion imaginable.
The nonsensical list of territories subject to the White House's new "reciprocal" tariffs shows how amateurish the administration's new trade policy is.
Two months after he was inaugurated, Trump has smashed many of the government's silly DEI rules. But he hasn't created a new age of meritocracy.
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
The proposed list of countries for the "Muslim ban" reboot has been leaked. It includes a small Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas.
The GOP faces a choice about how to move forward.
The law is wasteful and protectionist. Now, a new lawsuit argues that it is unconstitutional too.
If Trump wants to encourage domestic investment, his antitrust appointees should ditch their Big Tech prejudice.
And it's not about "fairness." Quite the opposite, actually.
Eliminating tariff exemptions will increase import delivery times and make direct-to-consumer goods more expensive.
Reviving the Monroe Doctrine and 19th century Republican adventurism is not a shortcut to peace.
DeepSeek made a more efficient product that the rules wouldn't hinder.
President Donald Trump doubled down on both domestic deregulation and protectionism in his speech to the World Economic Forum.
American tariffs will increase the price of final and intermediate goods, hurting our own consumers and domestic manufacturers.
Domestic deregulation will decrease the cost of living. Trade barriers will do the opposite.
A Utica, New York, land grab offers the justices an opportunity to revisit a widely criticized precedent.
The case gives the Supreme Court an opportunity to revisit a widely reviled decision that invited such eminent domain abuses.
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The Committee on Foreign Investment doesn't recommend blocking the merger, and neither should President Joe Biden.
Despite campaigning against Donald Trump's tariff hikes, Biden left many of them in place.
Xi Jinping’s neo-mercantilist policies are destructive, not productive.
Semiconductor protectionism is a downward spiral that makes both parties poorer.
For decades, the Jones Act has increased costs and hurt grid reliability in Puerto Rico.
Drone maker DJI claims the Pentagon has unfairly smeared it as an arm of the Chinese military based on a mix-up of Chinese names.
After proposing a deduction for interest paid on car loans, the former president suggested it would apply only to vehicles made in America.
The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.
Mom-and-pop marijuana operations do not exist in Florida. That's by design.
For more than three decades, the Institute for Justice has shown that economic freedom and private property are essential safeguards for ordinary Americans.
Katherine Tai said tariffs were "leverage" against China, but now she admits that China hasn't made "any changes to its fundamental systemic structural policies."
Eliminate the domestic content requirements of the Buy American Act, don't expand them.
Trump's protectionist running mate comes out against “cheap, knockoff toasters” and common sense.
Commerce Secretary Raimondo insists the rule "is a strictly national security action."
Season 2, Episode 1 Free Markets
Cuban's Cost Plus Drugs project brings a bit of free market flair to the health care industry, but the lack of meaningful price signals is only part of the problem.
Season 2 Podcasts
A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker.
Both campaigns represent variations on a theme of big, fiscally irresponsible, hyper-interventionist government.
A new poll challenges the protectionist narrative currently dominating both sides of the political aisle.
A new Cato Institute/YouGov survey finds contradictory attitudes on trade policy, and widespread ignorance. The survey also suggests a potentially promising political strategy for free trade advocates.
The New Right talks a big populist game, but their policies hurt the people they're supposed to help.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
The Ohio Senator is one of the Party's leading advocates of protectionism, economic planning, and immigration restrictions.
"I don’t care to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state," the onetime presidential hopeful said this week.
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