Trump’s tariffs have: imposed significant costs on U.S. households, harmed GDP, did not reduce America’s trade balance, and amounted to the largest tax increase since 1993.
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…
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…
Pres. Trump’s on-again, off-again, on-again tariff regime dominated the economic news in 2025. It was kicked off on April 2, a date Trump called “Liberation Day,” when the president announced…
Editors at Issues and Insights explore the president’s bumbling rollout of a tariff policy. So far, President Donald Trump has been piloting his second term like Maverick from “Top Gun.”…
Matthew Continetti compares President Donald Trump’s current policies to those of a controversial predecessor. Donald Trump isn’t the first president to blow up the global economy. Half a century ago,…
Michael Strain writes for the Financial Times about the impact of the president’s approach toward tariffs. “Liberation day” has arrived. Unfortunately, it threatens to liberate Americans from robust real wage…
John Trump and Kari Travis report for Carolina Journal Online that a leading state lawmaker points to recent turmoil as evidence that North Carolina needs to reform its alcohol laws.…
You probably know about the problem with government incentives. But were you aware of the problem with government disincentives? This update discusses the new presidential administration working to weed out…
Right-of-center politicos and policy analysts have split on the wisdom of imposing a border adjustment tax plan. Gene Epstein of Barron’s devotes his latest “Economic Beat” column to criticizing the…