China’s markets tumbled on Friday, dismayed by a disappointing stimulus package from Beijing and fear that President-elect Donald Trump will restore high tariffs on Chinese exports.
The conventional wisdom on Wall Street has long been that a sweep by Republicans in the election would be inflationary. Here’s why that’s probably wrong.
There are four major policy changes that Donald Trump can embrace to revitalize the U.S. economy.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping extended his congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday, along with his hopes for an improved U.S.-China relationship during the second Trump administration.
The presidential election was in significant part an economic referendum in which voters chose Trump and his economic policies.
President Donald Trump is backing up his promise to enforce the nation’s border laws with a threat to impose huge tariffs on Mexico’s exports to the United States.
Zhu Fenglian, a spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, said on Wednesday that Taiwan could be “discarded” if Donald Trump returns to the White House and implements his America First foreign policy.
In attacking Trump on Tuesday night, Harris resorted to telling her shopworn lie that Trump wants to impose a “national sales tax.”
Zhao Xing, China’s ambassador to Afghanistan, said on Thursday that Beijing will soon offer “zero-tariff” trade to the Taliban regime.
When it comes to the economy, Harris may have the Nobel laureates in her corner, but Trump’s got the American people.
Polls show voters endorse Trump’s view of tariffs.
Donald Trump’s proposal for a 60 percent tariff on all Chinese imports has elicited cries of anguish from all the usual suspects. Fortunately, their gloom and doom have little basis in economics.
While the media has focused on Trump’s colorful claims about his love for tariffs, few have noticed the bold innovation behind his trade strategy, which amounts to a revolution in thinking about trade that completely upends the core arguments against tariffs.
A coalition of families of people who have died from fentanyl are demanding that the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) investigate China’s role in the American opioid crisis, and requesting that tariffs be enacted on the country to combat it.
Trump’s vision for tariffs—far from the straw man of “protectionism” that critics love to decry—is something new, bold, and based on a strategy that undercuts the standard arguments against tariffs.
Standard & Poor’s CRISIL analytics firm published a report on Wednesday that predicted India will become a major exporter of solar energy equipment by 2029.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Breitbart News economics editor John Carney stated that we know inflation is caused by deficit spending by the government that the Federal Reserve accommodates and “these economists know better. When they say
U.S. allies have taken advantage of the United States as well, former President Donald Trump said during an appearance with the Economic Club of Chicago.
Donald Trump told Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait, “You’ve been wrong all your life” on tariffs.
Trump says the auto industry will be wiped out by outsourcing to Mexico if Kamala Harris wins next month’s presidential election.
Billionaire Mark Cuban, a top economic surrogate for Vice President Kamala Harris, found himself triggered after he was pressed on tariffs and America First economic policies by Breitbart News.
In the fevered imaginations of Trump’s policies, tariffs threaten bring global trade to its knees, provoke retaliatory measures, and hit consumers with higher prices. The ghost of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 looms large, ready to serve as the ultimate cautionary tale.
Swing state voters trust former President Donald Trump more than Vice President Kamala Harris on international trade and tariffs, polls found.
Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Wednesday said that a Trump administration would use tariffs to “fight back against the theft of the American middle-class.”
Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) argued for tariffs at the lone vice presidential debate against Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), emphasizing that they protect American workers from cheap foreign labor.
Trump, in fact, won the trade war with China, leading to a Phase I trade deal that was only overshadowed by the coronavirus.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “ReidOut,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) stated that the Biden-Harris administration has “been very strong on” Chinese steel dumping “and keeping those tariffs in place.” But 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump’s tariff proposal
Auto workers in Michigan spoke directly to former President Donald Trump, who listened to their concerns and answered their questions Friday.
Breitbart News economics editor John Carney said Wednesday on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” that former President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs and tax cuts would rebuild industry in the United States and strengthen the dollar globally. Carney said, “What Donald Trump
One of the least discussed but most obvious realities of modern trade is that Donald Trump is, in his rough-hewn way, mostly right about tariffs, while the accepted wisdom mouthed by the media, think tanks, and economists for public consumption is, if not wrong, at least incomplete.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” MSNBC host and NBC Senior Business Analyst Stephanie Ruhle discussed her interview with 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and stated that Harris “didn’t want to get deep on what
During a portion of an interview with MSNBC host and NBC Senior Business Analyst Stephanie Ruhle that was aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris responded to a question on
Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance (R-OH) said Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris does not care about American workers, evidenced by her criticisms of former President Donald Trump’s tax and tariff policies and the flood of illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration, which has undercut wages for American workers.
Donald Trump vowed to enact a 100-percent tariff on vehicles made in Mexico and lower the corporate tax rate for companies that produce in the U.S.
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Monday it wants to ban Chinese and Russian software and hardware from Internet-connected and autonomous vehicles, citing the security risks to American drivers and U.S. national security.
Former President Donald Trump will unveil his plan to attract foreign companies to move their manufacturing to the United States during his speech in Savannah, Georgia, on Tuesday.
Donald Trump said Monday that if John Deere moves manufacturing to Mexico, he will impose a 200-percent tariff on its imports to the U.S.
The majority of voters say they are more likely to back a presidential candidate who supports U.S. tariffs on all foreign imports.
During Friday’s “Overtime” segment of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that he does believe tariffs are ultimately paid by Americans but also argued that this means tariffs put on by President Joe Biden are a bad idea. Former
President Joe Biden’s United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai announced increased U.S. tariffs on China, initially imposed by former President Donald Trump. The tariff increases come even as Vice President Kamala Harris attacks the use of tariffs on the presidential campaign trail.
