Donald Trump has run out of patience with Brussels. Effective June 1st, the president announced via Truth Social that tariffs on imports from the European Union will rise to a staggering 50 percent. Did EU bureaucrats really believe they could…
America is in the midst of a divisive argument regarding Donald Trump’s use of tariffs to reduce our trade deficit with other countries — the controversy began when the president first mentioned his intent to employ them. Specifically, the discourse…
Monday saw a seismic economic shift courtesy of an executive order by President Trump cramming down the prices Americans pay for prescription drugs. President Donald Trump declared Monday that the U.S. “will no longer tolerate profiteering and price gouging from Big…
In a move that has halted the cheap hauls of TikTok’s hoard of fashion influencers, President Donald Trump has effectively put fast fashion out of style in the United States. As of May 2, 2025, the Republican president killed the…
Bryan Riley is not a fan of President Donald Trump’s tariffs — and that’s painful for him. “I want him to succeed,” Riley told me. “I work at the National Taxpayers Union.” The NTU is hardly an anti-Trump institution. But…
In 1993, Wendell Berry wrote an essay, “A Bad Big Idea,” sharply opposing the “free trade” proposal of the day, which he correctly feared would be backed by the Clinton Administration. Berry farms in his native Kentucky, and writes novels,…
This week, like the week before it, can only be described by one word: tumultuous. Stock markets around the world have plummeted, phone calls are being made, messages are being put out on social media, and everyone is trying desperately…
Trade wars are back in fashion. And so is Milton Friedman. A video of Friedman explaining the miracle of the pencil has gone viral, amassing 42.5 million views and being shared by Elon Musk and many others. The video underscores…
President Donald Trump’s goal of reciprocal trade is a false promise, based neither on economic laws nor market reality. His arbitrary tariffs are causing an immediate meltdown of the world’s financial markets and a loss of confidence in the American…
