Liberty
Busting myths about the ‘China shock’
Michael Strain explores the long-term impact of the American decision to open up trade with China. Few issues in the public square are uncontested. But the narrative that the United…
International trade
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Canada’s Carney backs off anti-American rhetoric
Chris Bray writes for the Federalist about an interesting change of tune from Canada’s top elected leader. Compare the speech Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave in New York Thursday…
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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…
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Probing the illusion of Chinese strength
Sasha Gong writes for American Greatness about President Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with China’s Xi Jinping. As Donald Trump prepares for another high-stakes meeting with Xi Jinping, conventional wisdom in…
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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…
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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…
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Iran’s actions hurt the world’s poor
Jim Geraghty of National Review Online explores the impact of Iran’s recent military actions. [A] whole bunch of people around the world are going to starve to death because of…
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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…
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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…
Statement from Locke CEO about EU Tariff Response
Today, in addition to retaliatory tariffs, the European Parliament froze the EU-US trade deal following President Donald Trump’s repeated statements and tariff increases regarding Greenland. Donald Bryson, CEO of the…
Agriculture
Possible tariff war over Trump’s Greenland ambitions would hurt North Carolina farmers
Several agricultural products may lose tens of millions in revenue, and thousands of jobs, in the event Trump’s threatened tariffs prompts a response from the EU.
New Report Warns Tariffs Could Cost NC Agriculture $695M and Nearly 3,000 Farm Jobs
RALEIGH – A new report from the John Locke Foundation warns that retaliatory trade policies stemming from aggressive U.S. tariffs could inflict severe economic damage on North Carolina’s agricultural sector,…