Benn Steil: Trump’s Tariffs Are Killing American Steel
“Our Steel Industry is the talk of the World,” President Trump tweeted in September. “It has been given new life, and is thriving.” Yet nearly…
“Our Steel Industry is the talk of the World,” President Trump tweeted in September. “It has been given new life, and is thriving.” Yet nearly…
By Daniel Lacalle The main reason why the ECB quantitative easing program has failed is that it started from a wrong diagnosis of the eurozone’s…
by Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca at CFR https://www.cfr.org/blog/fed-tightening-more-it-realizes Before the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Fed’s balance sheet stood at $925 billion—mostly U.S. Treasury securities. After…
By Joakim Book With the 2007-8 financial crisis came a splendid alphabetical soup of central bank interventions to stimulate financial markets, lower interest rates, provide…
Ryan McMaken Listen to Ryan McMaken’s commentary on the Radio Rothbard podcast. One of the more persistent myths about capitalism is that wealth and resources…
by Michael Messal Source: https://www.austriancenter.com/elementary-approaches-on-freedom/ “Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”i This quote from the song “Me and Bobby McGee by…
By Jeffrey P. Snider This year is just different. Increasingly so. Not just in one or two places, either, but in way too many places….
by Mike Mish Shedlock US trade data with China makes it increasingly likely Trump will increase tariffs on China. Bloomberg reports China Trade Outlook Darkens as…
By Gregory Bresiger from THE JOURNAL OF LIBERTARIAN STUDIES Volume 13, Number 1 (1997) War Follows Protection. Peace Follows Free Trade. As David Ricardo said, “If…
President Donald Trump has repeatedly told the American people his trade war pitch: “Tariffs are the greatest!” Except they are not — and a new…