tariff
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…
National Review ponders jobs ‘miss’
Editors at National Review Online analyze the latest American employment numbers. Investment gurus generally say that it is a mistake to put too much stress on one month’s numbers — not that that stopped stock markets’ taking…
Imagining the end of the federal income tax
Editors at Issues and Insights ponder a potential seismic shift in federal tax policy. The federal income tax is abusive. It is inconsistent with liberty. It has, as Chief Justice John Marshall noted, the power to destroy.…
SCOTUS tariff decision and the rule of law
Philip Wallach assesses the impact of the US Supreme Court’s recent tariff ruling. If Donald Trump had a motto, it might be: Have carrots ready but start with sticks. With Learning Resources v. Trump, in which a 6-3 Supreme…
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…
Gorsuch reminds us why Congress matters
John Puri writes for National Review Online about the important civics lesson embedded in one U.S. Supreme Court justice’s recent opinion. At the end of his concurring opinion in the IEEPA tariff case, Learning Resources,…
The tariff decision is both right and wrong
Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that President Trump acted illegally when he imposed new tariffs on nearly all countries exporting goods to the United States. Trump argued that he had reviewed every trade agreement the…
Trump attacks SCOTUS justices over tariff ruling
Steven Nelson writes for the New York Post about President Donald Trump’s reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest ruling against his administration. President Trump launched a scathing attack on Supreme Court justices…
Watching out for China’s ‘economic statecraft’
Audrye Wong writes in Foreign Affairs about an important challenge to American interests. With the second Trump administration has come a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign economic policy. Washington is imposing tariffs on…
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