When President Donald Trump announced the “Liberation Day” tariffs on most imports in early April, his trade advisors promised it was the prelude to new, better trade deals with dozens of other countries. “We’re going to run 90 deals in 90 days,” Peter Navarro, the White House’s top trade advisor, told Fox Business on April […]
North Carolina lawmakers are advancing a bill that would kill the state’s shrimping industry. On Thursday, the state Senate voted on House Bill 442, which had recently been passed by the state’s House of Representatives to expand the recreational fishing season for southern flounder and red snapper and establish a pilot program to restore their […]
The White House is promising that the “Big Beautiful Bill” will provide a jolt to the economy—but those expectations fail to take into account three direct consequences of the bill that independent analysts believe will sap growth in the long run. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and others in the Trump administration have been […]
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 shock,” that idea paved the way for a dramatic resurgence in protectionism, culminating in sweeping tariffs including Trump’s controversial “Liberation Day” duties. Yet we continue […]