Economics
Trump says he’ll increase the baseline tariff rate from 10% to 15%
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that "we'll have a straight, simple tariff of anywhere between 15% and 50%." Hiking the baseline reciprocal tariff rate to 15 percent means a 50 percent higher tax on…
Trump’s tariffs and Japan deal could encourage Toyota to move jobs out of U.S.
Over the past few decades, Japan-based automaker Toyota has spent billions of dollars to expand its manufacturing and assembly plants in the United States. Those plants now employ over 64,000 people across North America and…
Scott Lincicome: How Much Will You Pay To ‘Buy American’?
How much are you willing to pay to "buy American"? Just asking questions. In April, President Donald Trump unilaterally unleashed a series of so-called reciprocal tariffs, using emergency powers to punish countries…
UN to launch ‘disinformation’ taskforce to silence critics of globalist Agenda 2030
Fri Jul 18, 2025 - 10:16 am EDT (The Sociable) — The United Nations is creating a taskforce that will focus on the effects of what it considers to “be mis- and disinformation” about the globalist organization’s ability to…
Scott Bessent takes premature victory lap on tariff revenues
Last Friday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took a victory lap as his department reported an unexpected increase in receipts from tariffs. The revenue undoubtedly came from a surge in imports to the U.S., which led to…
The Adam Smith walking tour in Edinburgh, Scotland
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The Heart of Midlothian; Joaquin Ossorio-Castillo/Alamy. St Giles' Cathedral; Nilfanion/Wikimedia. Adam Smith Statue;…
California’s minimum wage hike cost 18,000 fast-food jobs
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1228 into law in September 2023, which established a Fast Food Council within California's Department of Industrial Relations and increased the minimum wage for 500,000…
Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canada starting August 1
Fri Jul 11, 2025 - 4:41 pm EDT (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. President Donald Trump, citing unsubstantiated claims that Canada is allowing massive amounts of drugs to pour over its borders, said he will hit Canada with a blanket 35…
Dr. McCullough: Big Pharma controls the airwaves with billions in ad revenue
Fri Jul 11, 2025 - 12:58 pm EDTFri Jul 11, 2025 - 1:01 pm EDT (Focal Points) — Pharmaceutical advertising accounts for a significant portion of television advertising, representing somewhere between 10 and 12 percent of total…
See Javier Milei’s transformation of Argentina first-hand
This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The suggestion that Argentina could be the home of a self-described libertarian president would have seemed far-fetched, to say…
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