For decades, American companies made a straightforward calculation: They would share their technology with Chinese partners in exchange for access to the world’s largest consumer market and its low-cost labor.
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The prices of goods affected by tariffs fell in August, crushing the hopes of everyone at the Cato Institute.
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Jimmy Kimmel might have hastened his exit by spreading falsehoods about Charlie Kirk’s assassin, but he was marching toward the end long before this week.
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A divided federal appeals court on Monday refused to let President Donald J. Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Governor Lisa D. Cook, but a forceful dissent warned that the decision misapplied both constitutional law and common sense.
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Trump’s immigration enforcement has delivered something rare in American politics: a policy that does exactly what its supporters promised.
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Lisa Cook, who was confirmed as a Governor of the Federal Reserve in 2022, wants a federal judge to do something no court has attempted in the Fed’s 112-year history: define what “for cause” means when a president tries to fire a Fed governor.
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The Trump administration’s decision to take a ten percent stake in Intel is not socialism. It’s a financing innovation designed to overcome Wall Street’s allergy to capital investment.
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The Fed needs someone at the helm who understands how growth happens, where policy fails, and why incentives matter more than slogans. That’s Scott Bessent.
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The July jobs report was a disaster for the American worker, the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve, and Jerome Powell.
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The trade deal Donald Trump announced Sunday with the European Union is not just the death certificate of the old regime. It is also the birth certificate of a new era in international trade.
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The Congressional Budget Office has released a new report laying out how it will evaluate budgetary proposals to end the government’s control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Waller says that tariffs will not create lasting inflation and the Fed should cut at its meeting later this month.
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When Superman first appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, America wasn’t grappling with border policy or multiculturalism. It was staring down something more existential: a collapse in fertility.
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Businesses will be able to immediately deduct 100 percent of the cost of new “qualified production property,” including newly built American factories.
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The Supreme Court’s decision on Friday in FCC v. Consumers’ Research didn’t just preserve a telecom subsidy—it delivered a serious setback to efforts to dismantle President Trump’s trade agenda.
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Inflation is down, wages are up, and the stock market is hitting record highs.
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Pre-tariff measures show subdued cost pressures despite trade tensions.
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Trump’s threat of a 50 percent tariff on EU imports might actually help the European Union overcome its dysfunction.
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Many economists have successfully challenged the idea that budget deficits lead to higher trade deficits.
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The supposed culprit of the import surge—consumer panic buying—simply isn’t real. Consumers are not front-running the tariffs, and that is good news.
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Larry Kudlow, Trump’s former NEC Director, points to business investment surge, tax policy tailwinds.
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Removing Jerome Powell as Fed chair might not give Trump the interest rate cuts he wants.
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Although President Trump’s announcement that some of the tariffs would be paused for 90 days got all the attention, the real fireworks began several minutes earlier, when the U.S. Treasury held its much-anticipated 10-year bond auction.
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The reciprocal tariffs are doing what they were meant to do: putting leverage on the table, shaking foreign complacency, and opening the door to new trade arrangements that better serve American workers and producers.
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The market, like a poker player who stayed in the hand far too long, seemed to be operating under the assumption that Trump would eventually fold.
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The notion that tariffs cause inflation has become a super-virus infecting the minds of President Trump’s critics, seemingly immune to the usual antibiotics of economic evidence and logic.
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“What we’re going to be doing is a 25 percent tariff on all cars not made in the U.S.,” Trump said during remarks from the Oval Office.
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The “Recession That Never Happened” is already over, and the numbers prove it.
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If you’re looking for an explanation of why the stock market has been stumbling, the financial press has a ready-made answer: blame Trump’s tariffs.
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The January JOLTS report underscores a nascent blue-collar boom, particularly notable in manufacturing, as job openings and hires rose significantly in the early weeks of Trump’s second term.
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