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 […]
Interest rates may have fallen this year, if not for the uncertainty and higher costs created by President Donald Trump’s tariff schemes. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told a House committee on Tuesday that the central bank likely would have “continued cutting” interest rates during the first half of 2025, but decided to hold rates […]
I am pleased to announce that leading legal scholars and Supreme Court litigators Neal Katyal and Michael McConnell have joined the litigation team for VOS Selections, Inc. v. Trump – the case challenging Trump’s abusive “Liberation Day” tariffs filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself. The support of prominent figures from opposite sides of […]
Canada’s oft-derided supply management system—a persistent irritant in many of the country’s trade relationships—is less focused on price stability, as Ottawa claims, but rather on protecting the dairy sector in one Canadian province. Canada’s future trade negotiations with the United States—or any other country with which it wishes to maintain a free trade agreement, for […]
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/d2h6a3ly6ooodw.cloudfront.net/reasontv_audio_8322736.mp3 1×1.1×1.25×1.5x2x3x :15 :15 Download Jason Furman: Why Everyone Is Wrong About the Economy Jason Furman is one of the most influential Democratic economists of the past two decades. From 2013 to 2017 he chaired President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped shape tax, trade, and labor policy during a period of […]
David Boaz. (Cato Institute)  The Liberty Fund symposium on “The Legacy of David Boaz” – prominent libertarian thinker and longtime Cato Institute leader – has now concluded. There were initial essays by five participants – Andy Craig, Tarnell S. Brown, Aaron Powell, Jonathan Blanks, and myself. Each participant has now also posted two response essays. […]
The Trump Organization unveiled Trump Mobile, “a next-generation wireless provider with bold ambitions and a customer-first mission,” on Monday. The organization also teased the T1 Phone—which is slated for an August release and available for preorder—as a “gold smartphone engineered for performance and proudly designed and built in the United States.” The origins of the […]
President Donald Trump has been celebrating in recent weeks as his administration strikes bilateral trade deals following “Liberation Day.” Some products, however, will soon be subject to increased duties, not lower ones. Starting June 30, imports derived from aluminum and steel will be subject to a 50 percent ad valorem tariff. These duties will hit […]
The United States finalized a trade deal with China on Thursday that will see tariffs on Chinese imports fall to 55 percent (from 145 percent) and Chinese duties on American imports drop to 10 percent (from 125 percent). Though a reduction in tariffs is worth celebrating, the retention of American export controls on Chinese-bound semiconductors […]
 Earlier tonight, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit imposed a stay pending appeal temporarily blocking implementation of the Court of International Trade ruling striking down Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, in the case filed by the Liberty Justice Center and myself on behalf of five businesses harmed by the tariffs. The stay […]
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