Taking Formula From Immigrant Babies Won't Fix the Shortage
If you put infants in federal custody, you're obliged to feed them.
If you put infants in federal custody, you're obliged to feed them.
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Trade restrictions and over-zealous FDA regulation are a big part of the problem, but there's more.
Why do we have tariffs on imported formula in the middle of a shortage?
The libertarianish Colorado Democrat is devolving decision-making to parents and trying to lower the income tax to zero.
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.
‘Peace through commerce’ didn’t prevent war in Ukraine, but that doesn’t mean the theory is invalid.
The bank's new domestic financing program is a poorly defined, unnecessary exercise that will throw taxpayer money at projects the private capital markets have deemed too risky.
The inspections caused great economic harm, and may also have violated the Dormant Foreign Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
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The sanctions that punish Russia are shattering the global economy.
Countries insulating themselves against future sanctions may block trade that lifted billions from misery.
Biden says reducing prices is his "top priority" but his economic agenda suggests the opposite.
Guess whose fault it is that it’s so expensive to ship goods to America? (Spoiler: The U.S. government's.)
After more than a decade on ice, trade in shellfish between the European Union and the United States is about to pick up steam.
Elizabeth Warren's bizarre theories about corporate greed driving inflation have made their way into federal law enforcement, it seems.
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.
Chipmakers don't need the money, and they won't get it until after the current mess has been resolved.
A new podcast reminds us that even complicated macroeconomic issues can be fruitfully reduced to the sum of individual action.
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.
Trump's tariffs are adding an estimated 0.5 percent to annual inflation.
Supply chains are struggling, but they're not as fragile as you think.
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Perhaps Newsom doesn't want to do anything because the real solutions will anger his union and environmental allies.
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.
"Even products as simple as a pencil have to use wood from Brazil and graphite from India before it comes together at a factory in the United States," Biden said.
Biden should denounce Cuba’s communist tyranny while pushing for more free trade with Cubans.
The one thing that would most help increase efficiency at America's lagging ports is also the one thing that Biden's union allies dislike the most.
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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We've turned the presidency into an omnipotent office, and we expect that our gifts and government checks will be delivered on time.
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They favor special interests, hurt consumers, and have utterly failed to rein in China.
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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.
People and economies are retreating, or being pushed, back behind restricted frontiers.
The two are idolizing the wrong models.
The same institution that's unable to run the Postal Service or Amtrak orchestrated our invasion and withdrawal of Afghanistan.
What good is protectionism that isn't protecting anything?
"The Cuban people are not asking for military intervention."
New GAO report says the process for determining which companies could avoid paying those tariffs was rife with "inconsistencies" and poorly documented decision-making.