America's auto industry is back in the fast lane in a race with China to economic dominance. Imposing tariffs and repealing policies will throw that in reverse.
If you put 50 randomly selected American academic economists in a room and ask them what they thought of raising tariffs as a ...
He has launched the worst global trade war since the Smoot Hawley tariff rounds of the 1930’s that prolonged the Great Depression. For the Financial markets, the messiah of MAGA has morphed into a ...
The Trump administration has issued ‘America First Trade Policy’, the most damaging trade policy since the Smoot Hawley ...
As President Trump enacts his protectionist trade agenda, a Depression-era tariff law is gaining new relevance: The ...
Protectionist policies play to people who believe they are losing out to unfair overseas competition. But they can have ...
The bad economics of import taxes was succinctly summed up by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), one of the few Republicans to ...
The president’s plan for reciprocal tariffs sounds good in theory. But there was a reason the United States abandoned the approach a century ago. The gains would be few and the costs enormous.
Could some energy companies actually benefit from higher U.S. tariffs on oil and gas? We asked Seeking Alpha analysts Laura Starks and Long Player their thoughts on the topic.
Food prices have already been climbing, and Trump’s tariffs could push them even higher. Increased import costs will make everything from fresh produce to packaged goods more expensive. Without a ...
That raises the possibility of a costly, tit-for-tat trade war, reminiscent of the one that followed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs ...
Those tariffs are widely credited with sinking the United States deeper into the Great Depression. And although global trade ...