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Time for a return to free trade
Phil Gramm and Donald Boudreaux predict a Republican revolt against tariffs. Donald Trump’s tariffs are hurting Americans. Real economic growth is slowing, consumer prices rising, and real wages stagnating. Now the Republican…
Trump touts tariffs again as voters near Election Day
Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about the poor timing of President Donald Trump’s latest tariff tirade. The economy and all that pertains to it — the rapidly increasing cost of living, tariff-based inflation,…
Trump’s trade war with Canada labeled pointless
Editors at National Review Online pan President Donald Trump’s latest action on trade with our northern neighbor. Handling China, Russia, or the EU will always be tricky. Mistakes and missteps on our part are, of course,…
Did Trump ‘sabotage’ economy just before midterms?
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online pans President Donald Trump’s latest action on tariffs. By obsessively hiking tariffs at every opportunity, President Trump has put every Republican running for office this year in a…
Urging Trump to pursue policy other than weaker dollar
Glenn Hubbard explores how President Trump can address real economic concerns without a counterproductive tariff policy. or all the benefits that accrue to financiers and consumers, a stronger dollar makes it harder for US…
Tackling tariffs’ negative impact
Kyle Pomerleau explores tariffs’ impact on the American economy. Tariffs have become an important economic policy in the United States. Tariffs are a form of excise tax that applies to imported goods. They can be imposed for…
Trump has options for limiting price growth
Michael Strain ponders the president’s options for battling inflation. With prices rising faster than wages, workers are losing ground in the US. The consumer price index for April, released this week, shows an increase of…
Tariffs blunt positive impacts of tax cuts
Phil Gramm and Michael Solon examine the interplay between tariffs and tax cuts. Republicans are counting on voters being pleasantly surprised by larger-than-expected tax refunds this spring thanks to new tax cuts from the…
Trump tariffs have ‘murky’ impact on American agricultural trade
Joseph Glauber offers a one-year progress report on President Trump’s tariffs on agricultural products. One year after Liberation Day, the trade outlook for US agriculture remains murky. By the end of 2025, US agricultural…
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…
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