Economics
No, trade with China did not kill the U.S. economy
When Donald Trump first campaigned in 2015, he capitalized on a potent narrative: that China's rise gutted American manufacturing, leaving countless blue collar communities devastated. Known now as the "China…
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie joins Elon Musk in opposing Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful’ spending bill
Thu Jun 5, 2025 - 10:01 am EDT Note from LifeSiteNew co-founder Steve Jalsevac: LifeSiteNews is not expressing an opinion on this action by Rep. Massie, a heroic opponent to the U.S. deep state and pro-war Republican neocons.…
$30 million? The price of Pope Francis’ performative humility
Wed Jun 4, 2025 - 7:46 am EDT VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Recent investigations have revealed that one of Pope Francis’ most notable and purportedly “humble” decisions actually cost the Vatican around €200,000 a month. For…
D.C. pauses plans to hike minimum wage for tipped workers
Washington, D.C. will pause the implementation of a measure that is set to eliminate the city's tipped wage system, as the yearslong debate over the law's adverse impacts continues to divide the District's…
Trump is right: Canada’s economy can’t handle a fair trade agreement with the US
Tue Jun 3, 2025 - 9:34 am EDT (Conservative Treehouse) — The current Canadian prime minister is genuinely a walking meme of a Canadian prime minister parody. During his remarks to Parliament last Thursday, Prime Minister…
Democrats are embracing free trade as Trump hikes tariffs
After decades of shouting into the void that free trade is good, those of us in the "eliminate tariffs, embrace comparative advantage, and let me buy my haggis-flavored chips online without an import tax" crowd are…
Globalist Club of Rome pushes plan to control food, travel, and property for ‘climate change’
Fri May 30, 2025 - 12:42 pm EDTFri May 30, 2025 - 12:52 pm EDT (The Sociable) — The Club of Rome and the Hot or Cool Institute launch the “Materials and Consumption Taskforce” that will give policy recommendations that if…
Trump’s war on Harvard
In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by The Gist's Mike Pesca to discuss the Trump administration's escalating campaign against Harvard.…
Canada Pension Plan becomes latest institution to drop carbon ‘net zero’ target
Mon May 26, 2025 - 2:09 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) –– The investment group in charge of Canada’s governmental pension plan has ditched its “net zero” mandate, joining a growing list of major institutions doing the same. According…
Trump’s trade war is eroding America’s soft power
The direct cost of President Donald Trump's trade war will be borne by American consumers and businesses—of that, there should no longer be much debate. But trade wars also come with indirect costs and unforeseen…
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