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Apr 14, 2025
The incentives created by Trump’s misguided tariff gamble will ultimately discourage investment in America.
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Apr 8, 2025
Rather than risk starting a trade war by imposing “reciprocal tariffs,” Reagan encouraged domestic manufacturing by making it easier for other countries to ...
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Mar 12, 2025
Tariffs and other trade restrictions (or the threat thereof) can be useful if and only if they convince other countries to lower their trade barriers against the U.S.
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Mar 7, 2025
Tariffs reduce job growth and drive up costs. Now, they're prompting our major trading partners to do less business with the US overall.
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Mar 4, 2025
The unfortunate reality is that someone must pay for the profligacy of decades of spendthrift politicians in Washington, DC. But the question of who must pa ...
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Feb 12, 2025
In The Spectator, Oren Cass once again tries to point out that when it comes to Trump’s tariffs, economists just don’t get it. This is not the first...
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Jan 21, 2025
The only difference between taxes and tariffs is the location of the seller. Regardless, the buyer pays the cost.
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Jan 15, 2025
Adam Smith's recipe of "peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice" explains much of the discrepancy in GDP.