Donald Trump’s affordability blues
His administration remains fixated with Herbert Hoover economics
Tariffs
Wednesday
Tuesday
Howard’s beginning: the luck of Lutnick
Lutnick sounds so much like Trump it’s hard to tell where one man’s monologue ends and the other’s begins
Tuesday
Can Trump control inflation?
If voters feel they are going backward, then the vaulting success of the stock market or the tech sector can feel like an insult
Sunday
Is Trump’s $2,000 tariff dividend plan loopy?
In promising an economic boom, Trump has highlighted his responsibility for inflation and unemployment
Friday
Will the Supreme Court force Trump to repay tariffs?
The issue before the court is whether the Economic Emergency Powers Act delegates tariff making to the president
Friday
Trump’s World Series wind-up
Last night, the President abruptly announced that he was suspending trade negotiations with Canada
Tuesday
Trump cuddles Carney
The President joked about the upcoming ‘US/Canada merger’
Thursday
Will Trump’s tariffs trash the film industry?
The shock and awe is done – the details are not
Tuesday
Bessent’s private message reveals a Milei gamble
If you build an administration on the promise that you will always serve the American interest, certain foreign policy decisions become difficult
Friday
Trump’s new pharma tariffs will punish Americans
The cost of treatment for many patients will soar. Does Trump think that people will somehow fail to realize this?
Thursday
Does Trump’s handshake deal with the EU put America first?
Of course, in Trumpworld, trade-offs don’t exist. There’s no downside, no losing. There’s only ‘winning’
Saturday
Can tariffs replace income taxes?
We need to deal in reality instead of wishful thinking
Friday
The fog of tariffs
The confusion of the markets is understandable. No one really knows the details of what’s coming into effect
Thursday
Tariffs and the psychodrama of Trump diplomacy
Politics is personal. And the psychodrama is exhausting, after all
Monday
Ann Coulter: On immigration, Trump 2.0 and the Epstein Files
Bits from Ann Coulter and Freddy Gray’s interview
Thursday
The Art of the Dealmaker-in-Chief
With Trump’s international agenda, scratch beneath the hilariously crazy surface and you find a more serious campaign to isolate China, China, China
Sunday
Did Trump win the US-EU trade negotiations?
It is easy to admire Trump’s negotiating tactics. But that doesn’t mean that the US will end up being the big winner from higher import tariffs
Friday
The truth about the Trump ‘trade deals’
While the President can make good on his promise to hike tariffs, he cannot make other countries shoulder the tax bill
Thursday
Trump is in a good mood. What’s up?
While he couldn’t help but rub in the terms of the Columbia settlement, Trump also had some positive reflections to share
Wednesday
Trump’s Japan deal is a hollow victory
Trump will be able to claim a negotiating success. But that doesn’t mean Americans will be better off for it
