“You’re Paying 90% of Trump’s Tariffs,” the Wall Street Journal editorial board declared last week. It’s a startling claim. But the study it’s based upon has a faulty methodology.
This is the Valentine’s Day-President’s Day-Friday the 13th edition of the Breitbart Business Digest weekly wrap-up. It’s mostly a love letter to the U.S. economy, with just a touch of horror movie action and a dash of presidential history combined with Valentine’s Day gifts.
The Trump administration still has a path forward in rebalancing global trade even if the Supreme Court strikes down the president’s tariffs.
South Korea is pouring money into its growing lobbying campaign aimed at U.S. lawmakers — an effort that’s increasingly focused on defending Korea’s discriminatory treatment of American technology companies like Coupang.
The United States and India reached a trade agreement that will immediately lower American tariffs on Indian goods to 18 percent while opening India’s market to U.S. energy and other products, President Donald Trump announced Monday.
President Trump spoke with Breitbart News about leftist media’s reaction to the new Melania documentary during the red carpet world premiere at the Trump-Kennedy Center.
Steel production in the United States has surpassed Japan’s steel production for the first time in 26 years, a result of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” White House Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing Peter Navarro said that the White House is trying “to domesticate, essentially, the demand for corn through the ethanol program.” because whenever there
The administration of Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa on Monday announced a 900 percent increase in tariffs on Colombian oil transiting through its pipeline system, the latest move in an escalating trade dispute.
The House Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), wrote on Tuesday President Donald Trump’s decision to slap higher tariffs on South Korea was the result of the country’s targeting of American companies such as Coupang.
President Donald Trump announced Monday that he is raising tariffs on South Korea to 25 percent because the country’s government has failed to implement the agreed terms of its trade deal with the United States.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a China-friendly leftist, insisted on Sunday that he was not pursuing a free trade agreement with China that would endanger the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) following President Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100 percent tariff on Canada over its closeness to Beijing.
The European Parliament agreed to suspend the ratification process for the EU-U.S. trade deal in response to President Donald Trump’s threats to tariff eight countries for opposing the American acquisition of Greenland.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh from toadying to the Communist dictatorship of China, slammed the United States in his address to the globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump held a nearly two-hour-long White House press briefing Tuesday, on the one-year anniversary of his second inauguration.
Just about the biggest question in trade economics today is who is paying for the tariffs.
President Donald Trump worked at warp speed to “Make America Great Again” in his first year back in office, and the results, on countless fronts, have been bountiful.
The European Union and the Mercosur bloc of South American countries formally signed a long-sought landmark free trade agreement on Saturday, capping more than a quarter-century of torturous negotiations to strengthen commercial ties in the face of rising protectionism and trade tensions around the world.
Ramping up the pressure in the diplomatic feud over the future control of Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he will impose a 10 per cent tariff on eight European nations for their opposition to America acquiring the territory.
Chinese Premier Li Qiang embraced Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to Beijing on Thursday, telling the Canadian leader that his visit represented a “new starting point” for the previously strained relations between their countries.
President Donald Trump has beaten the conventional wisdom on foreign policy over and over again as he pushes toward his latest goal: acquiring Greenland for the United States.
The December CPI data is clear: the tariff inflation crisis was an elite panic disconnected from economic reality.
Tariffs, paired with flexibility and accountability, send a clear message to the world: America is back and serious once again.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s state propaganda arms railed on Tuesday against President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 25-percent tariff on countries that do business with Iran.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney departed for a visit to China on Tuesday, fulfilling a promise he made to dictator Xi Jinping when they met in South Korea in October.
President Donald Trump on Monday shared that he is placing a 25 percent tariff on any country that does business with Iran.
The Supreme Court on Friday did not issue a ruling on President Trump’s tariffs.
Speaking to business leaders at the Economic Club of Minnesota, Bessent laid out a vision of an economy revitalized by strategic government intervention in trade, sweeping changes to the tax code, and a sharp pivot away from regulations he said had stifled entrepreneurship and innovation.
Leaders of a farmer’s union arrested as tractors overwhelm police roadblocks to drive into centre of Paris to protest a forthcoming EU deal.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore said that President Donald Trump reducing some tariffs will be a stimulus and “it looks as though the Supreme Court will invalidate some
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Varney & Co.,” former Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore stated that by delaying some tariffs and lowering some, “Trump is inadvertently confirming that, if you put a tariff on something, a tariff is
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) offered a dismaying projection for Japan’s economy on Friday, projecting mediocre growth in the first half of 2026 that will cause Japan’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to fall behind India’s.
President Donald Trump has unwaveringly maintained his tariff policy despite endless criticism from the economic establishment, enabling him to strike historic trade deals, deals to lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, and peace deals, all while growing wages and without spiking inflation.
On Friday’s broadcast of “Bloomberg Surveillance,” U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer stated that there isn’t a specific direction to ensure tariffs going forward don’t impact affordability and “Whenever we’re imposing tariffs or doing deals, the purpose of the trade program
The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced on Friday it has filed a case with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against certain Indian tariffs and subsidies, saying they give Indian domestic industries an “unfair competitive advantage” and “harm Chinese interests.”
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has struck most-favored-nation (MFN) deals with nine more major drug companies to radically lower prescription drug costs, bringing the total to 14 agreements since late September.
Police, who held a line at the very gate of the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium were pelted with potatoes by angry farmers.
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic dissented from the Federal Open Market Committee’s December rate cut, warning that the Fed’s credibility on inflation “could be at stake.”
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran delivered a speech Monday taking apart the tariff-inflation panic.
Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran argued Monday that inflation is significantly closer to the central bank’s two percent target than official measures suggest, making the case for faster interest rate cuts while systematically dismantling claims that tariffs are driving price
