Free Markets
This New York manufacturing CEO has a message for Trump
Like pretty much every small business in America, the Plattco Corporation doesn't have a direct line to the White House, and CEO Michele Derrigo-Barnes can't call up the president to get special tariff exemptions.…
Trump wants lower egg prices. He’s also putting tariffs on imported eggs.
The Trump administration can't seem to decide whether it wants the price of eggs to fall or rise. That might tell you something about the White House's confused, economically illiterate approach to trade policy more…
Trump’s tariffs are starting to kill American jobs
The Trump administration believes that high tariffs will boost the prospects of American manufacturing, but one iconic truck company is now preparing to lay off hundreds of workers—because of the tariffs. For more than a…
How egg prices became the symbol of Poland’s transition to freedom
The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the dramatic event that marked the fall of European communism. The first sign that freedom was actually working in the former Soviet Bloc would prove to be a little more…
Trump’s tariff mania shows the folly of central planning
After the markets experienced a dramatic rebound last Wednesday, President Donald Trump praised himself for the historic financial upswing. That was the equivalent of setting yourself on fire, jumping in a swimming pool, and…
Uncertainty over Trump’s tariffs is stalling the economy
Last Tuesday, the day before President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs were set to be imposed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked by a reporter about the possibility of last-minute…
America gained nothing from Trump’s latest tariff stunt
A few hours after President Donald Trump announced an abrupt and partial reversal of his plans to slap huge tariffs on virtually all imports to the United States, a reporter asked him to explain the process that led to that…
It’s not just the stock market that’s in trouble
President Donald Trump's tariffs vaporized $6 trillion in value from the stock market in just two days of trading last week—and the bloodbath continued on Monday morning. Here's the bad news: That's not the end…
Global stock selloff continues as Trump signals no change in his tariff policy
Three-day selloff continues: "The carnage in financial markets worsened on Monday with stressed-out investors abandoning hopes that President Donald Trump would change his tariff policy," reports Bloomberg.…
Trump’s tariff blueprint called for ‘careful planning’
If you want to understand what President Donald Trump is trying to accomplish with his massive tariff hikes, the best place to start is probably a report published not long after Trump won last year's election. That…
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