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Offering one-year assessment of ‘Liberation Day’
Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux analyze the impact of one of President Donald Trump’s key economic ideas. A year ago Thursday, President Trump raised the average effective tariff rate to 22.5%, and proclaimed April 2…
Americans not sold on tariffs to boost economy
Terry Jones of Issues and Insights highlights interesting new polling information involving American attitudes about tariffs. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imported goods suffered a Supreme Court legal rebuke in late…
Latest numbers show ‘sputtering’ labor market
John Puri writes for National Review Online about disturbing new economic data. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report for February. … The numbers are not great, to put it kindly. From the Wall Street…
China’s growth could cease by end of next decade
Derek Scissors explores communist China’s economic challenges. The China economy field is full of people repeating the government’s numbers and “analyzing” them. If that’s sufficient, China watchers can just project a gradual…
Trump needs ‘less spectacle,’ ‘more exceptionalism’
Brad Essex writes at RedState.com about the future path for the Trump administration. President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address was long, occasionally somber, and at times funny. It was also a clear statement of how…
Trump’s SOTU speech labeled ‘supersized’
Editors of National Review Online assess President Donald Trump’s latest major address. The State of the Union address is one of the few opportunities the president of the United States has to command a TV audience of…
More homes, not higher prices, needed in America now
Tobias Peter assesses current needs in America’s housing supply. As housing affordability dominates national headlines, policymakers from the White House to Capitol Hill are scrambling for answers—but focusing on rising…
Assessing economy’s potential impact on Trump support
Terry Jones of Issues and Insights writes about the potential political impact of recent economic news. In the latest national online I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 by 1,478 adults, Trump’s overall…
American middle class shrinks as people move up economically
Stephen Rose and Scott Winship puncture a popular myth about the disappearing American middle class. Populists on both the political left and right routinely claim that the middle class has been hollowed out. These claims, to…
Job announcements aren’t jobs
Gov. Josh Stein recently celebrated what his Commerce Secretary described as a “record-setting year for job creation” in North Carolina, citing tens of thousands of job announcements statewide. But announcements aren’t jobs —…
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