Tariffs

At a rally in Georgia on Thursday night, President Trump declared that he couldn’t wait “forever” for the Supreme Court to rule on the legitimacy of his sweeping tariff policy. Whether or not the court was listening to his complaint, forever arrived today as it handed Trump a thumping defeat. It struck a blow not only for fiscal but also political sanity. Government intrusion upon the free enterprise system is bound to prove inimical to prosperity and liberty The language of the ruling was as lapidary as it was persuasive. “President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration and scope,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the

His administration remains fixated with Herbert Hoover economics

Lutnick sounds so much like Trump it’s hard to tell where one man’s monologue ends and the other’s begins

If you build an administration on the promise that you will always serve the American interest, certain foreign policy decisions become difficult

We need to deal in reality instead of wishful thinking

With Trump’s international agenda, scratch beneath the hilariously crazy surface and you find a more serious campaign to isolate China, China, China

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

While the President can make good on his promise to hike tariffs, he cannot make other countries shoulder the tax bill