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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Speaking today before the Economic Club of New York, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent laid out the intellectual foundation of Trump’s economic vision, describing a comprehensive strategy designed to restore American prosperity and reclaim economic sovereignty.
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Wall Street ended the week on a high note, shaking off geopolitical tensions after President Donald Trump’s tense White House showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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America has become an unwitting partner in a trade policy designed in Beijing—a policy that systematically erodes U.S. manufacturing, distorts global markets, and leaves American workers at a disadvantage.
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The Peterson Institute’s analysis is not a serious indictment of tariffs—it’s an unintentional case for their effectiveness.
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President Trump’s tariff threat against Colombia demonstrated the power of economic leverage wielded with precision.
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Americans are strolling into the new year with a bit more spring in their steps, thanks to the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House and the long-awaited end of the Biden-Harris era.
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The U.S. economy will barely notice if the federal government needs to shut down because funding authorization runs out at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, December 21.
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President-elect Donald Trump’s recent support for the dockworkers of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) should be viewed through the lens of dealmaking.
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Federal Reserve officials appear poised to repeat the mistake of September and November by cutting interest rates again when the economic data clearly calls for a pause.
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The numbers don’t lie. Hope and confidence are back in style, and the economy is starting to feel it.
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There are four major policy changes that Donald Trump can embrace to revitalize the U.S. economy.
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Economist Robert J. Gordon’s recent study on economic indicators and electoral outcomes offers a data-driven forecast for the Biden-Harris administration’s reelection chances, and the numbers don’t look promising for the Democrats.
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When it comes to the economy, Harris may have the Nobel laureates in her corner, but Trump’s got the American people.
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Polls show voters endorse Trump’s view of tariffs.
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In the fevered imaginations of Trump’s policies, tariffs threaten bring global trade to its knees, provoke retaliatory measures, and hit consumers with higher prices. The ghost of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 looms large, ready to serve as the ultimate cautionary tale.
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Four years ago, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took control of the White House by campaigning on lies about the state of the economy under Donald Trump.
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The Federal Reserve’s decision on Wednesday to begin lowering interest rates raises the question of how fast rates should be expected to decline.
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Someone call in the vice principal for student discipline! The market is bullying the Federal Reserve again.
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