Tag: Tariffs

Policy issues haven’t taken center stage in the 2024 presidential race. Instead, personalities, frailties, foibles, and falsehoods seem to be the top items on...

In (slightly) more normal times, presidential campaigns will produce and run on a series of Big Ideas they hope will convince voters to flock...

What’s a presidential front-runner to do when the rest of the field is gasping for air/attention/money/relevance? If you’re Donald Trump, your various advisors are busy...

There is one area where our fractious political class agrees: They are keen to make consumers pay more for just about everything. In this case,...

It’s no secret that our current political class is in love with trade protectionism, regardless of the costs such policies have to American consumers. But...

It’s something every budding economist (who isn’t a cheerleader for Team Red or Team Blue) knows to be true: countries do not pay tariffs....